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I put inverted commas around "illegal" and "legal" when I write about my two abortions because the State--and the Supreme Court--can fuck off with its opinions about what I can/can't do with my uterus. That control belongs to me.
That necessary disrespect of unjust laws was at the core of #TheJanes, a clandestine network of women who provided 11,000 safe, affordable "illegal" abortions in Chicago in the 5yrs pre #RoeVWade. Watch the @HBO documentary about them feministgiant.com/p/essay-disres…
“I learned that sometimes you have to stand up to illegitimate authority and sometimes there are unjust laws that need to be challenged,” Heather Booth, of Jane
A Supreme Court stacked w/religious zealots tasked w/doing the bidding of right-wing conservatives deserves no respect
A Supreme Court stacked w/religious zealots tasked w/doing the bidding of right-wing conservatives deserves no respect
As white Christian theocrats prepare to destroy a right that most people in the U.S. support, what will most Americans do about abortion rights? In the years before #RoeVWade, an underground network of women called #TheJanes provided safe, affordable illegal abortions.
And in this essay, I look at how activists in Argentina, Mexico, Poland and Ireland fought abortion bans feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-se…
Christian zealots have used democracy to cut it at its knees by destroying the right to abortion–a right which most Americans support. Anyone who is not an able-bodied, white cisgender heterosexual man should fear what is to come. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-ha…
In 1996, I was pregnant and needed an abortion in Egypt, one of the most restrictive countries in the world where the procedure is banned under all circumstances. My then boyfriend and I found an OB/GYN who performed abortions at his clinic.
“I can do it right now! Pay the 400 pounds (approx. $107) now and I can abort you right now. The operating room is right next door. It won’t take long,” the (male) doctor told me soon after my boyfriend and I went in to see him. feministgiant.com/p/essay-disres…
I told him I preferred to come in the next day. We returned the next day, I paid the 400 pounds and had a safe and “illegal” abortion,
For breaking the law in Egypt, I could have been sent to prison for 6mths-3yrs. The doctor could have faced 3-15yyrs in prison.
For breaking the law in Egypt, I could have been sent to prison for 6mths-3yrs. The doctor could have faced 3-15yyrs in prison.
Theocrats are competing in the Zealotry Olympics. On May 26, even as the Supreme Court had yet to issue its decision on #RoeVWade, the governor of Oklahoma signed into law the strictest abortion ban in the US, making the state the 1st to effectively end availability of abortion.
The @HBO documentary #TheJanes about illegal abortion providers pre-Roe v Wade, airs today. Will viewers in the U.S. understand that the past is not a foreign country but instead destination as ambition when theocrats are driving? feministgiant.com/p/essay-disres…
“We were really ordinary women and we were trying to save women’s lives. We wanted every woman who contacted us to be the hero of her own story.”
Watch #TheJanesHBO
Watch #TheJanesHBO
Now that we know that the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v Wade...1/2
politico.com/news/2022/05/0… h/t @rerutled #RoeVWade #SCOTUS
politico.com/news/2022/05/0… h/t @rerutled #RoeVWade #SCOTUS
Remember the terrorist, the attorney general, and the Supreme Court justice--and the battalion of white, Christian women--who helped destroy abortion rights and build a theocracy feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-te… #RoeVWade #SCOTUS
Convicted terrorist Raychelle “Shelly” Shannon can claim that she firebombed a path for Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch, the face of te law that ended the federally protected right to an abortion, and Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who has dealt the deadly blow. #RoeVWade
I saw #Happening last night. Set in 1960s France and based on the Annie Ernaux memoir, it is the most vivid portrayal of (illegal) abortion I have ever seen and will stay with me. It is on general release via @IFCFilms in the U.S. May 6.
I know what it is like to have an "illegal" abortion. I wrote about it here and will be writing more about #Happening soon and The Janes, an upcoming @HBO documentary soon.
feministgiant.com/p/abortion-is-…
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My essay is also available as an audio essay (click on the link above) and in Arabic.
I had my 1st abortion in Egypt, where abortion remains illegal in almost all cases. And my 2nd abortion in the U.S. where abortion rights are being gutted feministgiant.com/p/-?s=w
I had my 1st abortion in Egypt, where abortion remains illegal in almost all cases. And my 2nd abortion in the U.S. where abortion rights are being gutted feministgiant.com/p/-?s=w
