First they came for your third term abortions, because they knew the masses didn't know why, what, when or how rare these were. Then they came for your minor's abortions, because they banked on the protectiveness and invisible misogyny of middle America's families. Then they came for abortions in Red states, because who cared if Texas and the rest of the South didn't have abortion access so long as Roe hadn't been overturned. Then they came for Roe, and they slapped everybody's blind eye into the other. They will come for your mifepristone next, and then even Blue states will see what going underground means. By then how many will we have lost? How many more will we lose still?
When you snatch those speculums out of their hands and take them for yourself, you rip their laws off your ovaries. Because your body isn't a mystical medicalized space, and safe gentle abortion isn't an individual's affair nor is it rocket science nor is it out of reach.
But recovering women's rights from a oligarchic technocratic theocracy after this fall will be.
"If we don’t learn about our own bodies, somebody else is going to be in charge of what happens to us. It’s just that simple." -- American Feminist Visionary Carol Downer
"Because your body isn't a mystical medicalized space, and safe gentle abortion isn't an individual's affair nor is it rocket science nor is it out of reach."
"Your body isn't a mystical medicalized space". These are words that everyone can live by. Everyone needs to know more, much more about their bodies and how they work. And also, how they fit in with the vast march of all life which share so much of their characteristics with us.
First they came for your third term abortions, because they knew the masses didn't know why, what, when or how rare these were. Then they came for your minor's abortions, because they banked on the protectiveness and invisible misogyny of middle America's families. Then they came for abortions in Red states, because who cared if Texas and the rest of the South didn't have abortion access so long as Roe hadn't been overturned. Then they came for Roe, and they slapped everybody's blind eye into the other. They will come for your mifepristone next, and then even Blue states will see what going underground means. By then how many will we have lost? How many more will we lose still?
When you snatch those speculums out of their hands and take them for yourself, you rip their laws off your ovaries. Because your body isn't a mystical medicalized space, and safe gentle abortion isn't an individual's affair nor is it rocket science nor is it out of reach.
But recovering women's rights from a oligarchic technocratic theocracy after this fall will be.
"If we don’t learn about our own bodies, somebody else is going to be in charge of what happens to us. It’s just that simple." -- American Feminist Visionary Carol Downer
https://msmagazine.com/2025/05/04/carol-downer-abortion-history-menstrual-extraction-at-home-abortion/
"Because your body isn't a mystical medicalized space, and safe gentle abortion isn't an individual's affair nor is it rocket science nor is it out of reach."
"Your body isn't a mystical medicalized space". These are words that everyone can live by. Everyone needs to know more, much more about their bodies and how they work. And also, how they fit in with the vast march of all life which share so much of their characteristics with us.