As we’ve talked about, women are getting ready to move underground with their reproductive issues.
There are waiting periods in effect. Pharmacists are flat out refusing to fill prescriptions. Motherfuckers are acting a donkey, essentially.
It’s getting hairy out here, y’all.
I asked, just a few days ago, what are we going to do about this?
I come to you with news from the front lines.
First, my friend in Ft. Myers has a brilliant mother who was the Director of Patient Services with a women’s care group during the days in the trenches. Like when you got fire bombed for going to work in those days. She saw in Roe v Wade, and a whole lot of crazy shit with it.
The fucking woman is a legend.
So, all of the proceeds from her book are going toward this fight. That book, by the way, is Revenge of The Odd Girls, and I’ll link it for you. Her name is Elizabeth Garland, and I haven’t had such a girl crush since Michelle Obama was brought into my life.
Back to my original thought though. So, as we’re being forced to seek alternative treatment plans, and reroute to other cities and states for medical procedures, I’ve done exactly as I did with the domestic violence community. I’ve become a stop.
I have committed my money, my time, and one of my recliners. Because we are already under a waiting period here, so women are traveling hundreds of miles for medical procedures, and have nowhere to go, no money for hotels or food, and they’re sleeping in cars or wherever they can.
All to not give birth to children they can’t afford, or even worse, the children of monsters.
I will not sit here and watch this shit go on. It isn’t okay with me, and I will fight alongside every single woman who comes to me for help. This isn’t what we fought for. We fought alongside gays and trans, all through AIDS and marriage and all the other bullshit.
I assure you, once they’re done with women, they’re coming for your newly found freedoms next. If my gays aren’t with me yet, you better fucking pack a bag and get on board.
If this happens, if they take away our autonomy, we’ll be in the kitchen by 5p.m. next Thursday. We’ll be frozen out of STEM again, we’ll be denied the opportunity to get scholarships, and then denied the opportunity to learn.
This is not ok.
Do you fucking hear me? This isn’t going to fucking end well.
We have to stand up and fight, and the time is now. If we let them take it, we will never get it back. Not in our lifetime.
I already have women in need of my help. I just signed on this afternoon. That is fucking terrifying.
I urge you, please, even if you would never have an abortion yourself, consider this: your daughter or your sister has an ectopic, and while a bunch of men stand around and discuss the medical merits of termination, she dies on the table.
I can assure you, you’ll never be the same. Just ask me about it sometime.
Do not allow this to happen. Do not allow them to send us back to the time when we were slaves in polyester getting backhanded when we spoke too sharply.
I will never go back. They’ll drag my dead body back there, but they’ll never get me.
If you have extra time, give it. If you have an extra sofa, loan it. If you have extra money, I’m posting the link that goes to the same AaBF box that has taken care of our domestic violence girls for the 3 years I’ve been here with you.
Whatever you can do, the time is now. This is the point to stand up. Either stand or get ready to spend a whole lot of fucking time laying down on your back, because that’s where they want us.
Links:
Even if all you read is the note from the author, I promise it will move you.
As usual, you can send me $1 or $1,000, I’m going to the mat either way. I’m trying to only fill the role I do with our abused girls. Ubers, a meal, a couch or a hotel for the night. I’m trying not to get myself shot at this point in my life, but hey, if it goes down, it fucking goes down.
I’m at support The Bay Aunties.
Do not lay down and take this. We have come too far, fought too hard, and we gave too much. The time is now. Fight now.
We got to get these stupid fuckin republicans out of office and make it an amendment to the constitution!
"or even worse, the children of monsters." That part.