Abortion Struggles Beyond Voting: Women’s Liberation, Reproductive Care, and Dual Power
Channel: Spencer Beswick
Date: 2022-08-30

At recent pro-choice demonstrations, we have been told that the only way to protect abortion is to vote for Democrats in November. Yet the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade under a Democratic president, house, and senate. The Democrats appear more interested in fundraising off of Roe and attacking grassroots activists than they do fighting the right-wing assault on abortion. But reproductive rights were not won by electoral means, and that is not how we will defend them. Spencer Beswick argues that the historical experiences of feminist abortion struggle between the 1960s and 1990s offer alternative strategies for building power and transforming society.

Originally published by Hard Crackers: Chronicles of Everyday Life https://hardcrackers.com/abortion-struggles-beyond-voting-womens-liberation-reproductive-care-and-dual-power/