The Importance of Talking About Women in the Fight Against Abortion Bans

'When women as a class cannot make our own reproductive decisions, it gets much, much harder for us to participate in public life. … Anti-abortion laws are misogynist laws.'

by denying them equal opportunities in education, employment and politics and contributing to the feminization of poverty.

To effectively counter the anti-abortion movement and the harmful laws they advocate, we have to catalk about sexism against women to highlight theof anti-abortion laws. If we obscure the sex-based nature of abortion bans and restrictions by always talking about pregnant people and never talking about the women who are in fact the primary targets of the anti-abortion movement, we play into the right-wing strategy of burying the inherent misogyny underlying abortion restrictions.

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