Thread by @erintothemax

This #RoevWade anniversary, celebrate the activists who are working within their communities to ensure no one is forced to continue pregnancies. I'd like to add a little sparkle and shine to those who don't get recognized often enough for doing this work:

Catholic women working within their churches, schools, and universities! Catholic women use birth control at the same rates as everyone else. Speaking out under an all-male hierarchy is brave, necessary work. Thank you to @Catholic4Choice @HyasForChoice and others. <3 you.

@Catholic4Choice @HyasForChoice Nuns who have been bullied by the Vatican for 'not being anti-abortion enough' and who continue to focus on social justice concerns like increasing access to healthcare and helping poor people anyway, thank you very much.

@Catholic4Choice @HyasForChoice People who are having hard conversations with their non-progressive-type family and friends about why abortion restrictions hurt people, and how they have hurt them.

@Catholic4Choice @HyasForChoice Abortion providers -- not just doctors (awesome folks, thank you!) -- but nurses, administrative assistants, operations experts, patient advocates and others who do the work on the frontlines and face threats to their bodies and lives for doing it.

@Catholic4Choice @HyasForChoice Clinic escorts who put patient comfort and safety first, helping to shield them from anti-abortion threats and insults from the sidewalk. These people stand outside rain, sleet, or shine, and get up EARLY on the weekends to affirm the right to abortion when people need it most.

@Catholic4Choice @HyasForChoice Security professionals who work to ensure abortion providers, facilities, and patients are safe, a real challenge since the "pro-life movement" has made abundantly clear that killing all of us is activism to be tolerated or, depending on who is talking, celebrated.

@Catholic4Choice @HyasForChoice U.S.-based colleagues who are working to ensure that our internal American anti-abortion/white supremacist movement doesn't destroy access to abortion and family planning overseas. Great orgs doing this work: @genderhealth and @GlobalJusticeC

@Catholic4Choice @HyasForChoice @genderhealth @GlobalJusticeC Later abortion patients and multiple abortion patients and trans abortion patients who are telling their stories shamelessly and and without fear. You show that stigma only exists when we let it exist. Shout out to @RHAVote @AboboBravado @KaraMailman, among others.

@Catholic4Choice @HyasForChoice @genderhealth @GlobalJusticeC @RHAVote @AboboBravado @KaraMailman HR people working in companies and organizations around the country who are working to ensure the plans provided to employees include abortion coverage! Y'ALL ROCK SO HARD

@Catholic4Choice @HyasForChoice @genderhealth @GlobalJusticeC @RHAVote @AboboBravado @KaraMailman Parents who are taking action at the school board level to ensure comprehensive sex education. It's not "just the PTA" or "just being a concerned parent." This is organizing that we don't recognize enough. Knowledge is power. Power is part of the path to justice.

@Catholic4Choice @HyasForChoice @genderhealth @GlobalJusticeC @RHAVote @AboboBravado @KaraMailman Women of color in large, mainstream reproductive rights organizations with white leadership. From what I've heard, it can get real on all sides. Your work is not appreciated enough.

@Catholic4Choice @HyasForChoice @genderhealth @GlobalJusticeC @RHAVote @AboboBravado @KaraMailman . @AbortionFunds are recognized more and more in the press and the movement for their rightful leadership, but our movement could still do a better job putting y'all front and center on the daily. Thank you.

@Catholic4Choice @HyasForChoice @genderhealth @GlobalJusticeC @RHAVote @AboboBravado @KaraMailman @AbortionFunds OMG I tagged all these great orgs and individuals all the way through in my enthusiasm! Plz forgive me for Tweeting over leftovers. I love you all.

This list could keep going but I gotta go. Reply if you've got more activists you'd like to see get some love on #RoevWade day! <3