#good for you babes

As much as I understand the sentiment, I really think that “No uterus, no opinion” isn’t sufficient as a pro-choice rally and if anything just reduces the scope of the pro-life movement. In our attempts to keep cis men from policing women’s and afab people’s bodies we absolutely can’t forget the hundreds of thousands of conservative pro-life women who help to fund and put these men in office, as well as the pro-life women in politics themselves. The problem isn’t just that uterus-less men are interfering with uterus-having bodies. The problem is that a very large, very powerful group of people believe that a fetus’s rights supercede those of the living individual - to such an extent that the individual deserves to be punished for it. Moreover, that people of color and people in poverty will be punished exponentially more is a normal, digestible feature of the landscape rather than a symptom of the white supremacy, late-stage capitalism, and Christian nationalism that have this country in a chokehold.