Who Becomes A "Terrorist" in Post-Roe America?

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://foreverwars.substack.com/p/policing-abortion-as-terrorism?s=r

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State governments, soon to include at least 13 that will immediately ban abortion post-Roe, operate the fusion centers. Last year, FOREVER WARS reported on the Boston fusion center, which is already scared of feminists. In a June 2019 report, the Boston center patted itself on the back for arresting seven pro-choice counterdemonstraters at an anti-abortion rally after “an unknown liquid, possibly urine, was thrown on a pro-life demonstrator.”

Let's pause here to preemptively redress some confusion my headline may have introduced. The editorial mission of FOREVER WARS is to document the continuities, departures and permutations of the War on Terror. I am not saying that people who seek abortions are about to be relabeled as terrorists—although, after the spring/summer of 2020, when the Trump administration applied that label to Black Lives Matter and antifascists, who knows what will happen under the next Republican administration.

What I am saying is that the fusion centers—an information and threat-analysis clearing house uniting federal, state and local law enforcement—provide substantial opportunities for anti-abortion state governments to persecute people seeking abortions. No federal abortion ban will be necessary. Structurally, the fusion centers are a blinking red light indicating the next target for a repurposed War on Terror. And they're not alone.

Remember that the FBI, which has its own partnerships with state and local law enforcement, treats nonexistent pro-choice terrorism as on par with demonstrated anti-abortion terrorism. Sorry to quote myself again, but from a 2020 piece I co-reported: "The FBI pointed The Daily Beast to just one episode of pro-choice-inspired terrorism—one that did not involve an actual act of violence, but rather a threat in an online comments section." Meanwhile, "pro-lifers" murder abortion providers while they attend church.

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[Solly Mack]

1. Peaceful protesters and sidewalk chalk owners, apparently.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. The more money we throw at the carceral state, the more people it will target.

State houses are starting the process to criminalize accessing, providing and assisting abortions. The net will get bigger and bigger.