Defend Abortion Rights!
Confront the Anti-abortion Woman-haters January 22 & 24
by Sunsara Taylor | December 22, 2014 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us
There’s a torrent of woman-hating in this society that rages from the frat houses to the barracks, from the board rooms to the state houses, from the detention centers to the prisons, and beyond... it manifests in gang rapes and a violent porn-saturated culture... it claims the lives of nearly four women each day by abusive “partners”... it shames women and girls about their bodies and sexuality... it bullies people who won’t cram into constrictive boxes of “male” and “female” or whose love defies oppressive heterosexist norms... it imprisons women who defend themselves, shackles them during child birth, and allows guards to rape them behind bars.
An extreme, aggressive, and cutting edge of this torrent is the fascist assault on abortion—and even birth control. Having a child can be a wonderful thing. But forcing women to have children against their will is a form of enslavement. Forced motherhood drives women into poverty, traps them in abusive relationships, foreclose their dreams and their potential contributions to society. Worse, this woman-hating is backed by the state. Hundreds of laws are being hammered into place, closing abortion clinics, driving women to dangerous extremes, and creating legal precedents that are extremely difficult to reverse.
On January 22 in Washington, DC and on January 24 in San Francisco, hundreds of thousands will take part in Christian fascist marches against abortion and birth control. They will spew their shame and vicious lies about “women’s place.” They will strut and bray about their victories in slashing and hacking away at women’s lives in 2014. They will pump up their foot-soldiers to even more violently bludgeon women’s rights in 2015.
We say NO MORE! No more rape jokes, porn culture, gang rape, virginity cults, fascist laws, clinic closures, shattered lives, shackled births, battered friends, forced motherhood, stalking, street-harassment, shaming, objectifying, silencing, victim-blaming, groping, or any of the countless ways women are daily demeaned and degraded!
We will NOT be silent in the face of hatred. We will NOT stay home as anti-abortion, woman-hating fascists parade through the streets. We will stand up for abortion rights and defeat the war on women.
This year, WE FIGHT BACK!
CONFRONT THE ANTI-ABORTION WOMAN-HATERS ON JANUARY 22 & 24!
ABORTION ON DEMAND AND WITHOUT APOLOGY!
WOMEN ARE NOT BITCHES, ’HOS, PUNCHING BAGS, BREEDERS, OR SEX OBJECTS—WOMEN ARE FULL HUMAN BEINGS!
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