Issue #10 KEEP ABORTION ACCESSIBLE, SPEAK UP AND SPEAK OUT

KEEP ABORTION ACCESSIBLE. SPEAK UP AND SPEAK OUT.

September 21, 2021
Dear friends,
We developed this e-product to support all of us talking openly and often about the importance of keeping abortion legal, accessible, and affordable. One example: last week’s New York Times online and print editions included our letter opposing the draconian Texas abortion ban. The letter is below after the list of what each of us can do NOW to safeguard abortion rights.

OWRS (Older Women Remember and Speak Out): Elayne Archer, Vicki Breitbart, Betsey McGee, Alice Radosh, and Jini Tanenhaus

DONATE
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Abortion is Healthcare helps users locate abortion services in Texas as well as access financial and other resources.
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SHOW UP
Join nationwide marches Saturday, October 2 or a protest on the Supreme Court steps, Monday, October 4,10 am, to oppose the devastating ruling on the Texas abortion ban.

SHARE INFORMATION
Be ready to provide facts about non-surgical medication abortions and how to get one in Texas and elsewhere. Visit the Plan C website. Or read this article.

KEEP INFORMEDUrge your family and friends to subscribe to “Abortion: Talk About It” at OWRSpeakout.org. Previous issues are available at ARCHIVE._______________________________________________
September 15, 2021
To the Editor:
Let’s get real. The Texas legislators who passed the appalling abortion law know that their families, friends, donors and well-off constituents can fly, as needed, to a state that allows abortion. Most women with modest financial resources, disproportionately women of color, cannot.

History tells us — and some of us remember — that when abortion was illegal, thousands of women resorted to extreme methods to end unplanned pregnancies. Many others have coped with lifelong distress caused by their inability to end an unwanted pregnancy.

After Roe v. Wade, death and hospitalizations due to unsafe abortion almost entirely ended. But since then the attacks on abortion rights have been unrelenting. The new Texas law, empowering ordinary citizens to sue anyone who in any way helps a pregnant woman obtain an abortion after six weeks, is just the latest, and the worst, attack on abortion rights. Congress must act immediately to protect access to abortion across the country.

Elayne Archer
Elizabeth McGee
Brooklyn
The writers belong to Older Women Remember and Speak Out, a group of women who worked in the 1960s and 1970s to make abortion legal in the United States.
We can’t change something we don’t talk about.
Older Women Remember and Speak Out
OWRS Issue #10, September 2021