| Hello, Repro Nation readers!
In the afterword to their book We Choose To: A Memoir of Providing Abortion Care Before, During, and After Roe, Curtis Boyd, MD, and Glenna Halvorson-Boyd, PhD, RN, reflect on the fact that, even as they’re passing the torch to the next generation of abortion providers, their life’s work is being undone. “Why did we bother?” Glenna asks. It’s a complicated reality, but it’s not the whole story.
“Abortion has been with us ‘since the dawn of time.’ It will not go away,” Glenna adds.
After researching abortion through the ages, I can say with complete confidence that abortions are forever. At the same time, the anti-abortion movement has no intention of easing off attacking our bodily autonomy, whether it’s access to gender-affirming care (by cutting off funding for military service members or implementing state bans) or access to reproductive healthcare services, including cervical cancer screenings and abortions (by attempting to defund Planned Parenthood or introducing even more abortion restrictions). Nothing is off the table, no matter how many people are harmed.
Anti-abortion lawmakers will even take the most extreme position, as in Texas, of ignoring the data on pregnancy-related deaths in the years since the Dobbs decision—research that would prove without reasonable doubt that their “pro-life” position is in fact “pro-death.” By keeping this information out of the public conversation, they can avoid any accountability for their actions. And that’s exactly why progressive leaders like US Representative Jasmine Crockett of Texas are not letting them off the hook. “I and my fellow House Oversight Democrats will not allow Texas Republicans to hide the consequences of their deadly law…. The people of Texas deserve the truth,” Crockett said in a statement.
As we have stated from our very first newsletter, information is power. In the months and years ahead, we will continue to shine a light on the people in power who are set on causing unnecessary and unjust harm in our communities, as well as the reproductive freedom fighters, like the Boyds and Representative Crockett, who have done and are doing the work every day to bring us closer to achieving liberation and a world that we can feel right in—a world that future generations deserve to see.
See you in 2025,
Regina Mahone
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