It's about marriage. It's about sex. It's about what we read. It's about how we communicate with each other. It's about the limits to search and seizure. It's about medical records and genetic information. It's about libraries and the internet. /2
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) June 26, 2022
Various coalitions of repro orgs have been meeting regularly for a long time, including religious coalitions, of which I have been a part.
Please look to these people for best practices and decisions, and follow the leadership that is happening. What is happening in these spaces is a result of deliberate choices.
For example: Before Roe, there was an organization called Clergy Consultation Service, made of rabbis and ministers, that helped people access abortion care. No, we are not starting up CCS in the same way now.
In large part because BIPOC communities–those most impacted–are organizing and leading in abortion justice spaces now in a way that they were not before Roe. The work now is different. The world is different.
We are not here to try to do some white savior stuff. We are here as part of a larger movement for liberation and we are here to be *useful*.
What people seeking abortion care want now is not to stay in your guest rooms.
They need money. What is needed now from anyone who can offer it most immediately, to have the most impact on those who are most harmed is MONEY.
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