As people honor what was Roe v. Wade today, I want to take a moment to share with you images that you may not have seen and illustrate a different picture of who protested for abortion access and what our movement's demands once were. Much of the pro-abortion movement organized as part of a larger socialist, anti-war, and labor liberation movement. People instinctively saw the connections between reproductive liberation and economic inequities. You can see it in this "Free abortion on demand" banner.

I know everyone is excited about the FDA pharmacy announcement, but the truth is they’re maintaining (and expanding!) paternalism and abortion exceptionalism in the way they treat mifepristone. @DrDGrossman, @TracyWeitz, and I explain in @thenation:
thenation.com/article/societ… “Despite years of peer-reviewed, evidence-based research, the FDA chose to alter rather than eliminate the REMS for medication abortion. Adding pharmacies to the already cumbersome REMS was unnecessary and further perpetuates the notion that medication abortion is dangerous.”

Sometimes I can't believe that political orgs and candidates are taking advice on how to talk about abortion from the very consultants who told us we were being hysterical by saying Roe could fall. How are the same people who didn't see this moment coming calling the shots now? Their new argument is that the economy is more important than abortion as if those aren't intertwined issues. I have a really hard time listening to most political ads about abortion (not only because they work hard to avoid using the word abortion) but because they silo it.

If more reporters read up on the history of abortion and adoption in this country none of this would be shocking. Catholic Charities and Salvation Army ran entire homes that housed young teens having babies and then stole their babies and gave them away to Catholic families.

https://twitter.com/mjs_dc/status/1554114851424927750

I’m sure they tell themselves that “13-year-olds do phenomenal, absolutely phenomenal” during their pregnancies because the teens have no autonomy and are told to shut up because they’re doing the right thing. Then they get to say anyone who disagrees is disgruntled or in denial.

All these words for the huge win in Kansas and he can’t say abortion.

Abortion access is a winning issue. Talk about it.

https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1554675997399810051

I mean seriously, “abortion” is 8 LETTERS but “women’s right to choose and access reproductive health care” is 9 WORDS. This is unnecessary. Just say abortion.

Refusing to use the word abortion is definitely a choice; a stigmatizing one the President has chosen over and over.