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Showing Original Post only (View all)Stay Mad: Don't let them normalize post-Roe horrors [View all]
https://jessica.substack.com/p/stay-madI do my best to stay positive. Despair isnt an option when youve settled into a long-haul fight like the one we have in front of us for abortion rights. But I must admit, there are times when keeping my head up is harder than others.
This week, I did back-to-back events in Michigan and Floridagoing from speaking to a roomful of college students in Grand Rapids to an audience of women in their 60s, 70s and 80s at a Planned Parenthood fundraiser in Palm Beach. All of the women I spoke to were furious, energized, and, frankly, in disbelief.
Older women, who raged at the eradication of a right they fought so hard to secure, were terrified for their daughters and granddaughters. After all, they remember what it was like before Roe. Younger women, in shock over stories like Brittany Watts and Kate Coxs, were desperate for advice on how to help stop the nightmare.
And while their well-justified anger and energy reinvigorated meas in-person events always doI also found myself at a loss. Because the question that came up again and again, regardless of generation, was why are they doing this to us?
10 year-olds mandated to give birth. Miscarriage patients being arrested. Women forced to carry doomed pregnancies to term, turned into walking coffins.
Why do they hate us so fucking much?
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Because they hate women. They hate women with their own power. They hate women with their own money.
Aristus
Mar 15
#2
These things are indeed terrible AND ALSO all of these things happened before Roe, which is why "codifying Roe"
WhiskeyGrinder
Mar 15
#3
Fact: There is a set of biblical patriarchy believers in a few christian denominations.
ancianita
Mar 15
#10
That's it. The focus need to be on the individual events that have already taken place.
3Hotdogs
Mar 15
#11