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This is our world and these are our bodies. We won’t go back

24 Jun This is our world and these are our bodies. We won’t go back

Posted at 17:09h in Newsletter, One Billion Rising, V-Day by

US Supreme Court has overturned Roe V. Wade, taking away the right to abortion and opening the floodgates for states across the country to ban abortion. The ruling most immediately affects the 13 states with trigger laws – Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming.

We are an anti-violence movement. Forced pregnancy is a form of violence. Lack of access to reproductive healthcare is a form of violence. The ruling will most impact poor people and communities of color.

Take to the streets, RISE for abortion rights!

  • JOIN V-Day/One Billion Rising, Planned Parenthood, MoveOn, Women’s March, UltraViolet and more TODAY to demand control over our bodies, our lives, and our futures. VISIT https://bansoffourbodies-map.vercel.app to join or create a rally in your area.
  • READ V’s Recent Piece in The Guardian, “Women Know How Choice and Freedom Feel – and We Will Never Give That Up”“…and we will never accept this ruling.Perhaps because you have never known what it is like to have your body controlled by the vindictive anonymous state, to be raped and forced to keep your baby, to be so desperate that you destroy your uterus with a hanger or bleed to death in a back alley, you do not understand that once you have tasted the sweetness of freedom, of choice, once you have come to know your body as your own, once you have freed yourself and felt the expanse of your body, the aliveness in every pore that rises from autonomy, there is no way you will ever give that up. Ever.

    And because you do not know this, you do not know how dangerous we are, how organised we are, how willing we are to go any lengths to preserve our freedom.

    It’s been 50 years. We have summoned our due. We actually have bank accounts now. We have credit cards and we can buy a house. We can serve on juries. We hold offices and are lawyers. We write for newspapers and we run them. We host TV shows and direct movies. We run hospitals and universities and non-profits and write plays about vaginas and books about fascists and fascism. We can’t be tossed aside.

    This is our world now. And these are our bodies.”

Read the full piece, here »