Roe v. Wade: What You Can Do.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

http://bitly.ws/qJqm (goes to a google doc)

The most impactful thing you can do at the moment is to donate money. I know, I know. If that isn't an option or if you want to do more, organize other people to donate money. The coolest among you will become monthly donors–even of a smaller amount, because it provides a stable cash flow for organizations which are largely volunteer-run.

Here's where it can go (bonus points if you do them all):

* Give to local abortion funds in your state who help abortion seekers pay for procedures, made by the Abortion Link Fairy @helmsinki.
* Give to practical support organizations, who help abortion seekers with travel, childcare, and other logistical needs.
* Give to independent clinics, who are not affiliated with Planned Parenthood, but provide 6 in 10 abortions in the U.S., including all abortion care later in pregnancy.
* Our current fave: Give to a new clinic in MD being started by two badass ladies, an OBGYN and a midwife, who will provide safe and compassionate care throughout pregnancy. They will be one of the closer clinics to the Southeast, and be a critical destination as bans sweep across those states. They need $$$!
* Share This: a cool guide @alisonturkos made with more ideas, options and info
* Offer to Volunteer at a PSO, Fund, or your local clinic: Recently, someone I am close to volunteered to help a stranger from Texas traveling hundreds of miles away for care. They desperately needed someone local to check them in and out of a clinic. They were traveling alone and the clinic required a companion. It amounted to driving across town twice, not a big lift, but it meant that person could get the care they needed–it was potentially life-changing.

You'll note that none of our recommendations include giving to well-funded orgs like Planned Parenthood, starting your own thing when these networks exist, fighting with people on the internet, or marching. Our informed advice is to prioritize mutual aid through local organizations.

Links in the actual doc. People are still getting abortions, and they need money to access those abortions.

ETA: I'd also recommend using this time to practice talking about abortion in a way that includes more gender-inclusive language, learning about cultural sensitivity and anti-racist practices around abortion, and abandoning "Handmaid's Tale/hanger" rhetoric.

[lark]

1. I was with you 100% until the very last sentence which I don't understand.

Why should someone abandon Hanmaidens' Tale rhetoric, it is instructive in showing society totally controlling women who have no rights and that's what SCOTUS is pushing with their lying religion before constitution idiotic half baked pretend rhetoric?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. Because the basic message of the HT, especially the TV series, is that terrible things are finally

happening to white middle-class cis women and that's why it's terrible. Everything that happens to Offred has been happening to marginalized people for decades. Starting to care now means people need to do some work on this inside.

[lark]

3. I didn't get that at all from reading the book or watching the series.

Not even a shred of it, it's the fact that ALL women, are 2nd class citizens with no rights. It's women, not race that is the driving factor.

[Scrivener7]

4. Totally disagree. But I agree about the rest of it and thank you for the OP.

[delisen]

5. All women have been marginalized and de-personed for far more than decades.

Divide and conquer has been the strategy of male supremacy. When you divide us you are maintaining male supremacy or patriarchy.

The subjugation of women is the oldest, most enduring authoritarianism in the world. Many people cannot even imagine a non-patriarchal society , they just want a kinder patriarchy. We will never have a stable “kinder” patriarchal society

You can promote and defend patriarchy and stand in the way of building a fully equalitarian society with freedom and justice for all or you can reach out to build the new equal society.

Dividing women up into the worthy and the unworthy , driving wedges among the oppressed is to maintain inequality

The people under attack by the Supreme Court are women and girls -all of us. We are the majority in our country are around the world

Attempts to divide us are attempts to destroy us and maintain inequality .

The fact that thatAllred is white does not negate the fact that she is a woman and oppressed by a male dominated society.

The attempt to divide and conquer women by whatever means possible, including color or class come from the left as well as the right because there are people all over the political spectrum who just want that kinder, gentler patriarchy. We have to fight for our rights against their narrow vision as well

The victims of the SC justices and the Federalist Society and their anti-democracy minions are Women, all women. We can fight for our rights or listen to the voices that tell us we are not worthy and must therefore go through some purification ritual first.
I have no intention of wasting time on the blame the victims, divide and conquer closeted patriarchalists.

[PlanetBev]

6. I'm all for the Handmaid's comparison

I have a friend who is not as politically informed as I am. Watching the Handmaid’s Tale with her has been a great tool for me in explaining what’s been going on, especially the religious zealotry behind it.

[David__77]

7. It will be very important to support those who violate the laws against abortion.

Those cases will be very important. Heroes who openly do so will be worthy of support.