If/when Roe falls, women need to walk off the job. (Newsweek)

[OrlandoDem2]

https://www.newsweek.com/calls-mass-walk-out-women-roe-wade-repealed-abortion-1710855?amp=1

There are calls for a mass walkout of women across the U.S. if the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling is officially overturned. Andrew Wortman shared a post to his Twitter account, @AmoneyResists, in which he called for the nationwide strike, which can be seen here.

He wrote: "The moment Roe falls, every woman and girl in this country who values being able to make decisions about her own body should stop working in the largest coordinated protest in U.S. history that brings the entire nation and economy to a standstill. They'd reimplement it in a week."

[betsuni]

1. Revolution fantasy.

[markie]

2. if only...

I try not to be pessimistic... however, 1/2 the women can't afford the possible financial punishment and the other 1/2 don't seem to care...

[dem4decades]

3. I was thinking the same, great, no rights and no job. What could go wrong?

[OrlandoDem2]

7. I get your sentiment. But there are women and men who care and have the means to walk out.

They need to do that!

[markie]

11. it only works

if the numbers are there... I just don't see hundreds of thousands of people walking off the job... well, I would love to see it

[jimfields33]

10. Yeah especially when jobs are desperate for workers

Can you imagine the female department head walking off with a guy number two wanting that position for years. The guy gets it. What a mess this could end up.

[Voltaire2]

17. Those are different sets.

The fact is that a general strike that had even 10% of the workforce participating would have a significant impact. It is one of the few, effective, legal weapons people have to use against authoritarian governments.

[OrlandoDem2]

20. Yep. If all men and women who could strike would, it would be impactful.

[eShirl]

4. why not men too?

[markie]

5. yes!!!!

[OrlandoDem2]

6. Yes! And the article mentions that as well.

[Voltaire2]

16. Exactly.

[mainer]

8. Just walk out on anti-choice bosses

Let them be the ones to suffer.

[JohnSJ]

9. That would only work if ALL women did that, and based on what happened in 2016 where the Supreme

Court was at stake, it is highly unlikely to happen, where trump won 39% of the women vote, and 47% of the white women vote went for trump.

Not good enough

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/27/white-women-vote-republican-get-used-it-democrats/

[WhiskeyGrinder]

12. Yet another call for a national strike without doing any of the actual work to organize it.

[Voltaire2]

22. It's how to start organizing it.

First discuss the idea. Then plan it. Then execute.

Did you have a better idea to suggest?

[Novara]

13. "They'd reimplement it in a week."

Give me a break. This is someone's half-brained fantasy. I work in a male-dominated office. They'd fire me before my absence would make a difference.

[snowybirdie]

18. Sorry won't happen

Women are too busy shuffling work, childcare and housekeeping duties to just walk off anything. Besides then what?

[Emile]

19. How they going to get all the women who vote Republican to walk

off the job?

Great idea, but it is a fantasy!

[Ilsa]

21. I wish, but lots of working women cannot afford to show their "political"

inclinations, even though women's healthcare should not be political.