When a would-be justice asserts "life begins" at fertilization they are arguing for Constitutional personhood, a term that makes abortion and birth control illegal. It means even the potential of pregnancy has more constitutional rights that the actual people who can be pregnant.
Tbh, however, #BigProLife is not actually obsessed with the law but rather what they can use the law to get away with. Provisions to send abortion providers to jail are routinely written into anti-abortion laws.
In the first video we released, you see Operation Save America activists and leaders bloodthirsty to send people to jail, even saying people should be executed for abortion.
There are many more videos, with members of Congress, people going into Trump speaking at Susan B. Anthony List #BigProLife gala saying a woman sent to jail for self-managing her abortion 'shouldn't have gotten pregnant in the first place', watch here: reproaction.org/stop
Abortion, birth control, infertility treatment ... Amy Coney Barrett has sent very clear signals that she would not just outlaw them but throw people in jail to accomplish it.
Criminalizing reproductive health care is not some dystopian future. What many folks don't understand is that people are already going to jail for abortion and miscarriage in the United States. Who? As with everything else, people of color and poor people are most targeted.
Blue and purple states won't protect you. I live in VA. In past few years, even with pro-choice governor and attorney general, a woman was charged with a felony for self-managed abortion before it was later dropped. Another woman convicted for stillbirth at home before pardoned.
ED of org whose ad Amy Coney Barrett signed onto: "“We support the criminalization of the doctors who perform abortions. At this point we are not supportive of criminalizing the women." AT THIS POINT? They are telling you the quiet parts basically out loud.
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Abortion rights folks had been trying to warn you for so long. Because society failed to take the anti-abortion movement (a totalitarian movement) seriously, now it's everyone's problem. Let's settle in for a chat about anti-abortion fake clinics, also now everyone's problem. 🧵
Anti-abortion fake clinics exist to mislead and shame people seeking abortion care. They also form the backbone of the anti-abortion movement's power. Don't be fooled into thinking these are grassrootsy efforts. They are not. (More on that later.)
Anti-abortion fake clinics are often called crisis pregnancy centers, or pregnancy resource centers. Some also call them fake women's health centers or anti-abortion centers. They often choose deceptive names like "A Woman's Choice" to make themselves seem like abortion providers
The struggle for abortion rights and for racial justice are deeply interconnected. I would like more white people who are interested in abortion rights to deepen their racial justice analysis for the abortion issue specifically.
Controlling gender and sexuality + reproductive oppression operate in service of white supremacy by working to increase the supply of white babies. It is also intentional that the people most hurt by this "pro-life" approach are people of color, especially Black women.
In fact, the modern anti-abortion movement as we know it exists because right-wing operatives were looking to pivot from segregationism as their wedge issue as it fell out of favor in the early '70s.
There are two things happening at once with regards to the role and prominence of overt anti-abortion hatred in right-wing politics, and it's important to pay attention. This will have broad-reaching implications for the longterm politics of abortion. (THREAD)
FIRST: It has long been the case that Republicans who want higher office bend over backward to be the biggest, loudest, most cruel anti-abortion leaders they can be. One example is South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, who absolutely wants to be president. abcnews.go.com/Health/wireSto…
SECOND: Right-wing groups who are trying to win elections for a variety of candidates more broadly know the expected actions of the Supreme Court on abortion are unpopular and a losing strategy. This, I believe, is why CPAC is not hosting a single panel on abortion this fall.
This is the perennial story about women in power — Senators, CEOs, non-profit leaders, editors, and now, vice presidents. Women are presented as too weak, too strong, too indecisive, too bullying. It serves to push out the good women leaders we have, and intimidate rising women.
In particular, this odious statement from someone too cowardly to use their own name is so sexist and racist I’m going to spell it out in detail:
1) “refuse” relies on racist and sexist tropes against Black women who are presented as non-compliant
There is no such thing as a pro-life feminist. And thank you, I majored in Women's Studies and was literally a national officer for the National Organization for Women.