Andrea Askowitz: By telling men to shut up, we made a grave error. Women barely held political power, and we let men off the hook. - NBCNewsTHINK
The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday morning, turning the legality of abortion rights over to states to decide. We’ve failed to keep abortion a constitutional right because we’ve made abortion a women’s issue when it is everyone’s issue. It’s time pro-choice advocates change our strategy.
that certain state abortion restrictions were not unconstitutional. As I was becoming an adult, taking control of my life, women’s autonomy was being taken away, state by state. I got pissed. No state lawmaker would tell me what I could do with my body. I took this conviction to the extreme and organized the. In the summer of 1991, I bicycled across the country with a band of activists demanding reproductive justice, including access to safe, legal abortion.
We biked, marched and held news conferences. Our message: “We’re biking 4,000 miles to show the world women can and will control our bodies.” She faced her class and said,"Listen, I’m not supposed to say this..." Then she got nervous. A feeling of shame swept over her because she thought her students would think she did something terrible — though she didn’t think she did.
As the two of us talked, we got enraged. We Googled"Men’s Abortion Stories," and it was autocorrected to"Women’s Abortion Stories." We screamed over the phone like we were at a rally again. We have never seen a man stand up at a pro-choice rally and say,"I’m so glad abortion is legal because I didn’t want to be a father."
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