Thread by @digitalsista

a few quick things I'm seeing in videos about the Texas ban. This is not a bounty on the person who are pregnant. it's about those that assist in the abortion.

The framing is to dry up the resources and support system around her. The way an abuser operates.

Abortions are still happening. Clinics are not closed. But this leads to the next thing being said.

"underground" networks!!

This is an epic-level offense to BW. I'll explain in the next tweet but see below if want to help before I go off.

https://twitter.com/lilithfund/status/1433494981642178560?s=21

This country specifically Women, ie WW, tend to remove our race from issues about reproductive discussions. It's a very problematic but common messaging and framing. It needs to end.

The worst example is when they use Yoko Ono by way of Lennon on that freaking song title. I will not repeat but you know which one I'm talking about. Yes, Ono is a woman. a woman of color, but that doesn't mean she isn't also antiblack as an Asian woman. @ me

The first part that any conversation being had that erases BW or dismisses their existence when we were the ones experimented on with no pain killers to figure out how the reproductive system operates is just plain revisionist and insensitive to our pain points in the movement.

Also during any instance of discussing "forced birth" which is historical for BW in this country to produce more chattel slaves. Using words that erase these facts along with the fact we are still dying the most in maternal mortality rates. Calling it "underground" is atrocious!

We have a unique relationship with this moment. This is why so many of us sounded the alarms. (unheard from us of course.)

Let's fight this fight without erasure. And respect the space that BW hold at this moment. We are already exhausted!!