Happy Freakiest Friday of the year, abortion bog wenches!! It’s the Eve of Halloween and the week was full of creepy crawlies! Like Billy Corgan slithering into our timelines with the white man horror classics: “Younger women just get me,” and “Younger women don’t have the baggage women my own age do.” Yeah, fuck us old bitches for having attitudes after listening to – and worse – dating men his age spouting shit like this… while listening to his records. If there is one pumpkin you smash this weekend…
Speaking of men wanting to control women, shall we get to the abortion news?
The Plan: See No Abortion, Hear No Abortion, Speak No Abortion
Eighteen states have joined South Dakota’s side in its legal fight with Mayday Health over abortion-pill information and advertising. Yep, 19 Attorney’s General from the states whose bread and butter is punishing women are big mad that we are forever finding workarounds to their abortion bans, so they’re filing briefs to SCOTUS trying to ban pro-abortion speech of any kind in their states. Websites, billboards, ads – NOTHIN’! Never mind that’s not how the first amendment works and courts keep rejecting this ridic idea. They just can’t help themselves!!!
Apparently banning abortion isn’t enough, they want to Men-In-Black-mind-erase the word abortion from our memories entirely. Thought police, much?
The Numbers Don’t Lie, And They’re Scarier Than Your Neighbor’s Lawn Decorations
A new KFF survey found that more than half of reproductive-age women in states with abortion bans wouldn’t know where to get an abortion or find information if they needed one, and that knowledge gap has grown since 2024. This is absolutely terrifying AND EXACTLY WHY WE NEED THOSE WEBSITES, ADS, AND BILLBOARDS TO TELL THEM! Need to take matters into your own hands? Put your 12-foot Home Depot skeleton to work as a reproductive health educator!
Nearly 1000 Criminal Cases Related To Pregnancy Have Been Filed Since Roe Fell
Pregnancy Justice has documented more than 900 cases in the last three years. We are at the ‘criminalizing pregnancy outcomes’ part of the apocalypse. The Plot: something comes out of your uterus, you have no information and nowhere to go, so you do what you have to do and then get arrested for it. Trick or Trick, y’all! It’s giving I Know What You Did Last Trimester.
New Feminist Buzzkills Episode: Drops TODAY!
Speaking of tricks, the Assman-In-Chief has ordered all his minions running for office to stand down any plans related to stripping abortion access until after the midterms.
Have no fear! Lizz and Moji are gonna fill you in on A BIG ABORTION story that is simmering on the back burner at the EPA! You need to hear this if we are gonna fight back when they come at us with big White Walker energy.
We Got Pod Guests Aplenty!
OH MY RAGE! It’s Missy Dabice from Mannequin Pussy! The lead vocalist and guitarist unpacks the lore behind the band’s iconic name and gets real as fuck with the Buzzkills about middle-aged rage for the freaks, the emotional toll of turning your fury into art, and being LOUD, proud, and unapologetically pro-abobo. So embrace your inner freak and let that primal scream RIP.
Plus; Speaking Of Unbridled Pleasure And Righteous Rage
What do you get when you mix the most badass trans- and queer-owned, sex-positive adult store with badass, unapologetic mutual aid support? SMITTEN KITTEN, BABY. We’ve got JP Pritchett in the house! The sex educator and founder/owner of Smitten Kitten, AKA Minneapolis’ dopest dildo store fighting fascism on the daily, is gabbing it up with Lizz and Moji about HoleGate (yes, you read that right), vaginal atrophy, embracing your kink, and all of the amazing mutual aid Smitten Kitten has provided for immigrants, queer, and vulnerable folks creating a literal blueprint for how to show up in the world.
Y’all, the revolution does indeed come with batteries included.
Now for Some Ways You Can Fight Back!
Now that we’ve given you the really good and the absolute shit news for the week, here are a couple of ways YOU can plug in to the pro-abobo task force:
- Fill out our volunteer skill share form and we can connect you to all kinds of local and national AAF actions and educational opportunities
It’s loaded with events from partner organizations from all around the country so you can pick your passion and get your boots on the ground!
- Get your friends together for an Operation Save Abortion training! Abortion AF has a whole program where we take you from vaguely pro-choice to loudly pro-abortion in your community in no time! Pick a topic that speaks to you and get your boots on the ground!
It just seems extra appropriate this year that elections come right after Halloween because this shit is SCARY! But you know what they say: when you see something scary on the news, look for the abobo baddies. We’re pretty sure that’s how the saying goes, anyway.
Stocking up on Plan Boo,
XO Team Abortion AF
