Anyone who doesn’t believe you have the right to make decisions about your own body. Including who you love, what you look like, and your healthcare.
Any person that believes you know what is best for yourself. Including organizations that fight for you every day, elected officials that stand up and protect you every day, and volunteers that defend you every day.
Since 1973 when Roe vs Wade became law, anti-abortion zealots have continuously attacked access to abortion. They started with putting anti-abortion judges into courts and sued until they overturned Roe vs Wade. They won’t stop until all abortions are banned nationwide with ZERO exceptions. Take a look at their playbook below to understand their tactics.
Their Playbook
Who are you? An X or an O? You can’t be both.
Judges/Courts
Electing and backing judges at all levels that will vote in favor of their restrictive policies. Examples: granting religious freedom to businesses, challenges to federal regulation of mifepristone.
Access to abortion pill in limbo after competing rulings
AP News
State level policies
Local and statewide restricting policies, example: travel.
Ballot initiatives
Constitutional charges to make it harder to get ballot initiatives passed
Will more states try to make it harder to pass ballot measures?
The Washington Post
(S)elected officials
Supporting anti-abortion candidates: US Congress and US Senate (federal), Secretary of State to keep abortion access off of ballots (state), State lawmakers to pass state policies (state), Municipal races to pass local control anti-abortion laws (county and municipal)
Some Republican officials are trying to keep abortion off of state ballots. Here’s how
PBS
Targeting disenfranchised communities
Anti-trans rhetoric, redlining districts to disenfranchise communities of color, ACCs in low income and rural areas
From Trans Healthcare to Transhumanism: Reality vs. Conspiracy at LGBT-related Rallies
Colorado Times Recorder
AACs and false medical information
Confuse and dissuade people seeking abortion care causing harmful delays in accessing safe, accurate information and healthcare
Federal judge blocks Colorado’s new law banning abortion pill “reversal”
Colorado Sun
Controlling the narrative
A straw man’s argument - instead of addressing the actual position or argument of the other person, the fallacy involves substituting it with a weaker or exaggerated version that is easier to criticize. By attacking this misrepresentation, the person avoids engaging with the real argument and creates a false sense of victory
(e.g., personhood, abortion is not healthcare, savior complex)
Wikipedia
Healthcare restrictions
HYDE amendment and state level funding, blocking telehealth, criminalizing pregnant women and healthcare professionals
House Democrats introduce bill targeting ban on federal funding for most abortions
USA Today
Halting mail delivery
Trying to reinforce the Comstock Act in 1873 to block mail ordered abortion care
Anthony Comstock's "Chastity" Laws
PBS
Data mining
Using online data to charge people. Ex. Nebraska mom and daughter charged due to facebook messages
Using online data to charge people. Ex. Nebraska mom and daughter charged due to facebook messages
PBS
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