Juniper Porter: What the GOP is going for, they're testing the waters. This is only the beginning. This is the right wing's test case to rollback things like Roe, to rollback the legalization of gay marriage, to rollback civil protections
Episode 106, uploaded April 10: Sam Goldman interviews Juniper Porter, an activist with Trans Resistance
of Texas (TROT) – an organization that recently held a die-in on the
steps of the Texas State Capitol in support of trans rights (see press coverage). Follow @TRoT on Twitter and find more actions against the tsunami of anti-trans laws in states across the country at tearitup.org.
Then, we share some of the voices of abortion rights protesters who
took to the streets yesterday in cities around the country, as we
approach the tipping point this spring against the right to safe, legal
abortion in this country. If the US Supreme Court overturns or guts Roe
v. Wade, 26 states are certain or likely to ban abortion.
Juniper Porter: What the GOP is going for, they're testing the waters. This is only the beginning. This is the right wing's test case to rollback things like Roe, to rollback the legalization of gay marriage, to rollback civil protections. There's gonna be a lot to fight against. I want to see us build community. The more of us we have, the stronger we are. And if we stand strong now we have a chance of slowing it down.
Sam Goldman: The right to abortion is foundational to people's lives for generations. And if it is allowed to be stripped away, it will do tremendous incalculable harm. This is a Christian fascist, theocratic women-hating movement, and their assault on abortion is a battering ram in a whole horrific program infused with white supremacy, American chauvinism, science denialism, and it is gaining grounds on many fronts. If it is allowed to win on this, it will give the whole fascist enterprise momentum to drive its cruel and brutal future forward. This movement is one that cannot be accommodated to, it cannot be appeased, and it will not stop until they have imposed their nightmare vision of the world on all of us or until they are decisively defeated.
From RiseUp4AbortionRights: We Are ALL Lizelle Herrera - Abortion on Demand & Without Apology RiseUp4AbortionRights has flash protests Thursday April 14 - follow on social media for details
On April 8, Lizelle Herrera (age 26) was arrested and charged with MURDER for allegedly inducing her own abortion in a border town in Texas. Her bail was set at $500,000.
A statement from RiseUp4AbortionRights reads:
"After public outcry, Lizelle was released and charges against her dropped. But tremendous harm was already done. Lizelle was put in handcuffs, locked in a jail cell, called a 'murderer,' shamed and demonized before the whole world.
A message of TERROR was sent to ALL women everywhere, especially undocumented women in the Rio Grande Valley now that abortion is banned in nearly all circumstances across Texas. These women now must fear going to the doctor with complications from self-induced abortions or even miscarriages, even if their life is at risk.
What happened to Lizelle is NOT some anomaly. It is the logical outcome of banning and demonizing abortion which is what the Supreme Court is on track to do this spring."
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