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"In May 2016, three women walked into a police station in Derry, Northern
Ireland, and gave themselves up. They were unlikely criminals—all born in the
1940s, they arrived wearing warm coats and jeans. But Colette Devlin, Diana
King, and Kitty O’Kane were deadly serious about their willingness to spend
years in prison. Their offense: These three women had bought abortion pills on
the internet.
I wrote about Devlin, King, and O’Kane in my history of feminism,
Difficult
Women, because they represented a type of unshowy grassroots activism that I
find humbling and that will become ever more important in a post-
Roe America.
If anything close to Justice Samuel Alito’s leaked draft opinion becomes an
official Supreme Court ruling this summer, the effect on reproductive freedom
will be immediate. Nine states have pre-
Roe laws, currently unenforced, to
ban all or nearly all abortion; 13 more have post-Roe bans that would be
activated by the decision, according to the pro-choice Guttmacher Institute."
Via Brad Koehn and Susan ****
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
