Stay Mad: Don't let them normalize post-Roe horrors [View all]

[Nevilledog]

https://jessica.substack.com/p/stay-mad

I do my best to stay positive. Despair isn’t an option when you’ve settled into a long-haul fight like the one we have in front of us for abortion rights. But I must admit, there are times when keeping my head up is harder than others.

This week, I did back-to-back events in Michigan and Florida—going from speaking to a roomful of college students in Grand Rapids to an audience of women in their 60s, 70s and 80s at a Planned Parenthood fundraiser in Palm Beach. All of the women I spoke to were furious, energized, and, frankly, in disbelief.

Older women, who raged at the eradication of a right they fought so hard to secure, were terrified for their daughters and granddaughters. After all, they remember what it was like before Roe. Younger women, in shock over stories like Brittany Watts’ and Kate Cox’s, were desperate for advice on how to help stop the nightmare.

And while their well-justified anger and energy reinvigorated me—as in-person events always do—I also found myself at a loss. Because the question that came up again and again, regardless of generation, was why are they doing this to us?

10 year-olds mandated to give birth. Miscarriage patients being arrested. Women forced to carry doomed pregnancies to term, turned into ‘walking coffins’.

Why do they hate us so fucking much?

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