This Sunday, January 22, will be the 50th anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court decision, Roe v. Wade, which established nationwide protections for women's right to abortion. It will be a bitter pill. Last year, this right was overturned by the illegitimate Trump-packed fascist Supreme Court. Already, well over 100,000 women and girls have been forced to have children against their will. Have you let yourself feel this? Stop and really contemplate the dehumanization of having your very body hijacked and having the lifelong emotional, economic, social and physical consequences of having a child thrust upon you without your consent. Forced motherhood is female enslavement! Have you let yourself confront that this is just the beginning? This January 22, throngs of woman-hating fascists will not only be gloating over their vicious victory, but actively mobilizing to take this attack further. Their aim is a full-blown theocratic Handmaid's Tale nightmare. Already they are moving to ban abortion nationwide, to target birth control and the rights of LGBTQ people, and more. Have you let yourself think critically about the “strategy” you are being fed—and too often embracing—by the Democrats and the so-called leaders of the so-called pro-choice movement? They straight up refused to mobilize any serious fight in the streets against the overturning of Roe. Some of them even attacked the one group—Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights—that did lead tens of thousands to wage this fight. Now, these so-called leaders are pushing a state-by-state strategy aimed at protecting abortion rights in a few places. Never mind the millions of women left behind. Never mind that any state protections could be reversed in a heartbeat by the fascist Supreme Court. Never mind that this state-by-state strategy accepts and legitimizes the outrageous, illegitimate notion that women's rights are not fundamental and should be left up to each area as just a matter of taste. Will you continue to go along with this? The fury of millions of women and everyone who cares about justice—your fury—needs to be unleashed now, in the streets, in mass struggle to demand LEGAL ABORTION ON DEMAND AND WITHOUT APOLOGY NATIONWIDE. Draw inspiration from the brave women and the people of Iran! A society that enslaves women should not be allowed to function as “normal.” Have you ever asked why? Why do we live in a society where Dark Ages theocrats—several appointed by a fascist thug who openly bragged about sexually assaulting women—get to sit on the high court and dictate the lives of women? Why is it that everywhere around the globe women are beaten and raped, stalked and degraded, turned into sexual objects and pimped out and/or shrouded and punished if they have sex at all? Why has it been this way for thousands of years? Have you ever let yourself dream? I mean, really dream—of a world where women could walk the earth free of harassment, brutality, fear of rape or any form of shame or control over their bodies and reproduction? Where all the forms of the oppression of women and of other oppressed people are being uprooted and overcome? Have you ever wondered what it would take to make this world real? | 
