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Jun 10 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
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…
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As you follow the #January6thHearings, remember that
the insurrectionists invading the Capitol flying flags for Jesus were also anti-abortion extremists thedailybeast.com/the-capitol-ri…
Unless the United States develops the stomach for a long-overdue reckoning with the white supremacist Christian theocracy that has been unabashed in its destruction of Roe v Wade, abortion rights will not be the only rights it destroyed. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-wh…
The same arrogance and naiveté that made so many white Americans think Trump would never become president is that same arrogance and naiveté that made so many think "it would never happen here" about abortion bans as well. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-ha…
So successful has white supremacist patriarchy been at convincing white women that they’re lucky to live in the U.S. and not Saudi Arabia/Iran, that so many white women didn't pay enough attention to theocracy that white supremacy was building at home. feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney…
A theocracy which white, Christian women--a tag team of terrorists, legislators, attorneys general, governors, and judges and their supporters (who I call Foot Soldiers of the Patriarchy)--helped to build feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-wh…
How to fight back?

I offer a framework/manifesto that draws inspiration from global fights against theocracies and their abortion bans feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-se…
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Jun 9
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.
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Jun 8
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
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Jun 7
On Sunday, @tx4abortion activists disrupted Joel Osteen's Lakewood megachurch service by stripping to their underwear and yelling "It's my body, my fucking choice!" via @riseup4abortion #RoeVWade
Fuck yes @riseup4abortion: "Bring SOCIETY to A HALT! NO RETREAT, NO DEFEAT!"

I ask in my latest essay: When will you start burning things to the ground? Where is your fucking rage?

And it is important to insist: abortion on demand and without apology.

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Jun 7
I had an “illegal” abortion in Egypt in 1996 and a “legal” abortion in the U.S. in 2000. I feel like I straddle a surreal "before" and "after” that is about to go into effect but in reverse in the U.S. Watching the film "Happening" was a stark reminder feministgiant.com/p/essay-lies-s…
And watching the new @HBO documentary (airing June 8) The Janes, about an underground collective that provided low-cost and free abortions to an estimated 11,000 women in Illinois pre-Roe v Wade was another. I'm writing about it for my next essay.

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Jun 6
Amy Coney Barrett is a mediocre judge who was elevated because she’s a white mother of school-aged children who will do white supremacist patriarchy’s bidding in a country that hates mothers and children who are not white. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-ju…
The goal of feminism cannot be simply the elevation of any and all women. What a vacant and meaningless goal that would be, without also destroying patriarchy.

Patriarchal fuckery is no more palatable because it is delivered by women. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-ju…
And feminism is not about supporting a woman merely because she is a woman, especially when she is a dangerous extremist like Amy Coney Barrett. I do not support a woman who has benefited from feminism only to now work to cut feminism at its knees. feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney…
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Jun 6
Next time you are tempted to ask how women in Iran or Afghanistan could have “let it happen,” when they lost rights, ask yourself how you allowed white, Christian zealots to use democracy to cut it at its knees by destroying the right to abortion–a right most Americans support.
#RoeVWade will be overturned because of Christian zealots who voted for fellow white Christian zealots who installed other Christian zealots--like Amy Coney Barrett-- on courts, including the highest court in the land. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-ha…
White Americans wondering how this could've happened: while you were looking for Commander Fred of The Handmaid's Tale, ready to rape Offred as his wife Serena held her down, it was your fathers, uncles, brothers & husbands who voted for zealots stripping you of bodily autonomy
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