My favorite line (thus far— I’m still reading) from Breyer’s majority opinion: “We add that, when directly asked at oral argument whether Texas knew of a single instance in which the new requirement would have helped even one woman obtain better treatment, Texas admitted that there was no evidence in the record of…
I’m going to have my 15 year old daughter watch this movie, she seems ambivalent about abortion. I want her to understand this need, especially because she’s so privileged: access to all the BC she wants, non-judgemental parents, the income/class means that she has...
“I think as more and more women start to tell their stories, that that’s good.”
“I wish I could just transfer the feelings me and my friend felt when we were young in a country were abortion is illegal to everyone in America. I wish people could understand how terrifying it is to live with no access to abortion.”
That was like the first time I was faced with the whole “birth control = eugenics and genocide” argument. I was just gobsmacked....
As a white guy whose sister showed him What Was Up - I wholeheartedly support you educating that guy :-)
Do men not vote now?
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Of course there will be desperate women. I was born and raised in Mexico before abortion became legal in the capital of Mexico. There always were desperate women. I used BC but I remember how utterly terrifying was to think what would happen if my BC failed when I was in college with a scholarship and my mom could not…
I was just saying, it’s going to be really hard to watch, but I really really want to watch it. It’s so important.
me too!!! I kept having to like go check my email and whatnot inbetween reading this because I was just going to be bawling at my desk.
I remember the first time I heard some white dude trying to justify the pro-life agenda by saying more black people die through abortions than anything else. It’s like the weird baby version of the black on black violence argument. I swear the first time I heard it, I thought “oh because black women probably have a…
Ahh, I just saw the trailer, and it made me tear up. Hopefully I’ll be able to attend a screening soon. And bravo to Dawn and the rest of the team behind the movie - it takes backs of steel to make this movie in this environment.
“If you’re pro-choice, now is not the time to be quiet.”