Don’t get mad, get even. Don’t JUST get mad, do something! Let’s tell the story that the media won’t.
On Friday we came together to suggest what the headlines about the Texas law should be in order to tell the real story.
Below is the list of all the serious and semi-serious headlines we came up with. Maybe we can start by whittling the list down to 25?
When you indicate in the comments which ones you think should be finalists, can you generally refer to them by number? But then include the actual text, too, for your #1 choice.
My #1: Texas Law Requires Women to Prove Miscarriage Was Not Intentional
Who is our audience?
I would suggest that our audience is not people who already know about this opinion, who already understand the implications, who already know that the opinion was issued in the dark of night by the shadow court of the Supreme Court. Those people can be our partners in spreading the word, but they are not our audience.
I would suggest that our audience is the people who only know what the media headlines have told them (blah blah blah abortion law… yawn)
Who do you think our audience is?
I want to share this comment from the Texas thread, with some slight edits for clarity:
This thread is dead, but I just want to chime in with the opinion that the thing to hammer is the subjection of miscarriages to vigilantism. This is an issue with a powerful emotional component, which can appeal even to the women to whom the very word “abortion” is repugnant, to people who don’t care whether anyone else gets an abortion, to people who think they or their partners would never have or need an abortion. Anyone can miscarry. You lost your baby? In the middle of your shock and grief, you’d better lawyer up!
There’s a lot of merit to that, I think. How about you?
How do we get the word out?
How do we get the word out? Someone suggested Memes, and I thought that was a good idea. Twitter? Facebook posts? Tik Tok? Other blogs? Other ideas?
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