It’s been a week that felt like a decade, and now we’re supposed to be in the holiday mood?! Watching the absolute clusterfuck roll out that will be the next four years makes us all wonder what, exactly, there is to give thanks for. Well, here at Abortion AF, we won’t let the despair gobble us, swallow us, or drip down inside of us – righteous feminist rage will be the spice we’re liberally adding to all of our holiday dishes!
Holidays can be tough, but just know that we’ve got your back. If you can survive eating green bean casserole, you can survive ANYTHING! Be your whole pro-abortion self no matter where you go!
Now take a minute to read up on the latest cornucopia of abortion news before you gird your turkey loins for family dinner, and then lean into your deep fried rage for your next steps!
Wyoming: Least Populous, Most Winningest
In a collective ‘LFG’ from the west, a Wyoming judge struck down BOTH of the state’s abortion bans – a near-total abortion ban and a ban on the use of abortion pills to end pregnancy! District Judge Melissa Owens clearly read the room when she wrote in her ruling that an abortion ban, “will undermine the integrity of the medical profession by hamstringing the ability of physicians to provide evidence-based medicine to their patients.” GET IT, MELISSA!
Even the Bullshit is Bigger in Texas
Not content with banning abortion itself, apparently Texas Rep. Steve Toth wants to BLOCK ABORTION WEBSITES that talk about how to get one, using the good ol’ Texas play of citizen enforcers! Oh, and just for a little extra fun, he also wants to use the Women and Child Safety Act to go after abortion funds with “conspiracy charges.” Apparently when they said “let the states decide,” they secretly added in, “…for you.”
Hey Biden: Shake It Up Before You Go-Go
Don’t leave us hanging while we’re feeling so low-low! Before the Biden term is over, we’re crossing all of our relevant limbs that he takes some action to protect abortion rights before he goes, like pardoning providers of abortion pills for any violations of The Comstock Act. Should it be necessary to preemptively offer pardons from a law that no one actually listens to? No. Is this the world we live in now? Yes. SO TAKE SOME ACTION, JOE!
NOW, SOME WAYS YOU CAN FIGHT BACK!
The President has his marching orders…now it’s your turn! Check out our Activist Calendar to turn that outrage into action!
Not feeling like you wanna dig around a calendar? Here are this week’s highlights!
SOMETHING TO DO RIGHT NOW
Our petition to repeal The Comstock Act HAS OVER 48K signatures! Make yours one of them!!
ACAB: All Comstocks Are Bad! Join Abortion Access Front and our partners in calling on our elected officials to REPEAL THE COMSTOCK ACT, and guarantee that it can never be used to ban abortion nationwide! Sign our petition and help us put Comstock in the ground for good!
HIGHLIGHTS OF SOME DOPE EVENTS THIS WEEK
Fake Clinics? We Don’t Even Know Her
We use a lot of words around here, but we think our friends with the Amplify GA Collaborative hit the perfect succinct note: fake clinics SUCK! The coalition will be holding their monthly call to discuss their fake clinic campaign and how you can plug in on Thursday, November 28th from 6pm to 7pm ET – registration link here!
Rest and Reading are Radical, Too
None of us should ever be done learning, and what better way to learn more than in a book club with Gender Justice, OutFront Minnesota, and Jewish Community Action? They’ll be discussing a book on white Christian nationalism and working on actions to combat it on Tuesday, November 26th from 6pm to 7:30pm CST – registration link here!
Volunteer Skill Share!
You have the skills, we’ve got the clinics – let’s put them together! Fill out our Volunteer Skill Share form, and if the time comes where a clinic could use that support, we’ll hook y’all up! Trust us…everybody has skills to share. Baking, landscaping, graphic design, video editing accounting, painting…whatever you’re good at and would love to help with, put it down.
We can all help out in our own ways – fill out the form now and help us build up our network to support abortion!!
‘No One Asked You’ is now STREAMING AND YOU CAN FINALLY SEE IT!
BREAKING NEWS: ‘No One Asked You,’ the Lizz Winstead & Abortion Access Front documentary all about AAF’s work for the last seven years, is now available everywhere in the world through the new platform JOLT.FILM!
From October 25th through December 29th, ‘No One Asked You’ is available to watch from home from anywhere in the world – head over to JOLT.FILM to get started!
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We’re off to put on our stretchy pants – see you soon!
