Women’s Rights: Lysistrata Moment

Women’s reproductive rights (access to contraception and sex education) are a health, economic, and political justice issue, plain and simple.

States that limit women’s health access often enact laws that suppress the aspirations of the poor.

Many so-called pro-lifers are really hypocrites because they only advocate to protect un-born fetuses and rarely advocate for support for the child and the mother after birth.

Many so-called pro-lifers are not opposed to the death penalty.

Many so-called pro-lifers do not support political, economic, and social equality.

The rich and powerful (including many so-called pro-lifers) will continue to obtain abortions elsewhere.

Suggestions:

Increase health-care access. Increase access to sex education and contraception. Ban the death penalty. Support political, economic, and social and political equality.

Label such pro-lifers as “Forced Birthers.”

For a response to the Dobbs decision, in addition to marches and voter-registration drives, there should be a work strike (“Week Without Women”) and even a Lysistrata-type boycott across the country.

The Washington Post is very worried that American women don’t want to marry Trump supporters