Welcome BACK to Abortion AF’s weekly what-the-actual-fuck-is-going-on-in-abortion upload! We dig beyond the big headlines to bring you the stories that SHOULD be headlines! After all, with the Olympics over, what else are we going to do with our time?
Speaking of the Olympics, AAF is sending out the biggest CONGRATS to the US women’s hockey team for taking home another gold and still not getting the recognition they deserve. So we’re here to tell y’all: WE WILL THROW Y’ALL THE BEST DAMN PARTY YOU’VE EVER BEEN TO! Both because you deserve it and because FUCK THOSE GUYS. We may not have millions, but: we’re fun as hell, have not one but two vulva costumes, and will definitely feed you better food than some cold ass cheeseburgers.
JUST THINK IT OVER, OKAY? Ok. Now let’s get to the stories you need to know this week!
Tennessee Flip-Flops On Whether To Execute Abortion Patients Or If It’s Totally Chill
Earlier this week, Tennessee lawmakers were smacked down and had to scrap their ghoulish plans to classify abortion as murder, punishable with the death penalty. That’s right — TN politicians (all men, no doctors –- no exceptions for rape or incest — NUTHIN’) just straight up proposed raw-doggin’ executions for folks receiving safe reproductive healthcare and everyone was like, “Maybe we don’t do that?”
Well, apparently they straight up did not care. After saying he “did not have the votes,” to push the bill through, and multiple news outlets reported that the bill was dropped, executioner, er, author, Sen. Mark Pody was like “SIKE YOU GUYS OF COURSE I WANT TO SEND PEOPLE TO JAIL FOR THEIR PREGNANCY OUTCOMES!” Guess Pody doesn’t have A SINGLE HUMAN IN HIS LIFE to tell him that charging abortion seekers with murder is sadistically unpopular before he wrote, revised, and proposed it as a LAW IN AN AMERICAN STATE IN 2026.
You’re a Doctor of What Now??
Nothing! You are NOT a Doctor! That’s right… Casey Means, Trump’s nominee for Surgeon General, is a MAHA influencer who hawks supplements and hates vaccines. And if that isn’t disqualificacious enough, check out her views on birth control! She has dropped some absolute bangers about the “terrible,” “dangerous,” “horrifying” side effects of birth control, and by using it, you AND your coven of pill-popping jezebels are destroying the “sacred womb.”
Can there be one — just ONE — actually qualified person doing medical things in this administration? Is that so much to ask?
Not Another War On Drugs
Louisiana’s latest legal lunacy is a federal lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to axe their policy removing the requirement for an in-person visit for abortion medication. As if that wasn’t enough, Attorney General Liz Murrill then compared mifepristone to guns and fentanyl because why the fuck not — apparently facts don’t matter and words don’t have actual meanings anymore!
Since Roe was overturned, telehealth abortions have skyrocketed, as it’s often the only option for folks whose states hate them. So let’s not get it twisted: this is a not-even-trying-to-be-thinly-veiled attempt at removing telehealth abortion care for the entire country. No matter how incredibly safe and effective medication abortion is (AND IT DEMONSTRABLY SO), bodily autonomy bandits will never stop trying to yank that shit from our free will-loving hands.
No New Feminist Buzzkills This Week, So Catch Up On The Latest Episode!
Sorry folks — Lizz and Moji are full-on taking the next two weeks off from the pod! Your favorite buzzkills and AAF staff are out on the road with Michael Shannon & Jason Narducy on their incredible REM tour preaching the gospel of abortion, signing up new volunteers, and visiting our favorite folks… INDIE ABORTION PROVIDERS. They’re rolling up their sleeves and fixing up clinics, bringing much-needed joy and laughter, and just generally lovin’ up on the folks doing the most! AND WHEN THEY RETURN, they will be doing a very special episode celebrating Abortion Provider Appreciation Week with these incredible guests!
Now for Some Ways You Can Fight Back!
Once you’re all caught up, let’s lace up those boots and get out in the community and do some good!
Sign Up for the AAF Volunteer Skill Share!
You have the skills, we’ve got the clinics – let’s put them together! Do you do landscaping, are you great at taxes, can you edit video and create graphics? Tell us all about it, and we’ll do our best to connect you with clinics that need your skills! Trust us… everybody has skills to share.
We can all help out in our own ways – fill out the form now and help us build up our network to support abortion!!
Check Out Our Activist Calendar Below
Our Activist calendar is loaded with events and actions both nationally or in your community – pick your poison and get your boots on the ground!
Not feeling like you wanna dig around a calendar? We chose a highlight just for you!
FEATURED ACTIVIST EVENT THIS WEEK
A Movie AND Bodily Autonomy? We’re In!
Abortion bans harm EVERYONE, and the folks at Planned Parenthood Action Kentucky PAC won’t let you forget it! Join them for a screening of the film Zurawski v Texas to learn about Amanda Zurawski’s heartbreaking story and stay for the conversation after on Monday, March 2nd from 6pm to 9pm ET — registration link here!
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The attacks keep coming, and y’all still keep showing up; for abortion, for our communities, and for each other. If that doesn’t warm our cold, black hearts, we don’t know what will.
