Dobbs v. Jackson Responses

• Possibly, because I had a handful of near-death experiences before I was even able to legally drink, I’m extremely fixated on mortality and I think it definitely throws people off. Relatedly, with the forthcoming fall of Roe v. Wade, I’ve been thinking a lot about death. Anti-choicers demand of people "How would you feel if your mother aborted you?" but I think they forget, there are millions and millions of people who simply wouldn't exist if their mothers DIDN'T have abortions before they were born.

• Why A Pro-Life World Has A Lot of Dead Women In It by Jennifer Wright: Or alternatively,

  

• The Return of 'Choice Feminism' by Jessica Valenti: I’d rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all, but man, the realization at how bad a feminist I really am sometimes grates at me.

• ‘Women are capable of doing this’: the doctor defying local laws to provide safe abortions by sea or mail by Moira Donegan: The last paragraphs of this piece made me cry, and Dr.Rebecca Gomperts is peak Alexa play “Boss Bitch” by Doja Cat (which I mean in the most reverential and affectionate way possible).
  

  

  

• The Abortion I Didn’t Have by Merritt Tierce: Pair this piece with these two excerpts,

  

  

• When Roe v. Wade officially falls in June of 2022, my friend Anita and I are going to take tequila shots and cry, and you’re all invited to join us.