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Wren lemmy.today Wren@lemmy.today
Joined: 2025-11-04
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The expanding surveillance and criminalization of mutual aid, self-managed care, and bodily autonomy, and the growing attempts to criminalize pregnant people, parents, and health care providers have far-reaching ramifications beyond abortion criminalization that require us to join together to collectively resist!

Hundreds of restrictive bills have been proposed, many passed, including the Texas law (SB8) that not only bans abortion after six weeks, but deputizes civilians to police each other’s reproductive decisions. Such laws are just the latest examples in a long history of criminalizing bodily autonomy, especially for Black, Indigenous, migrant, disabled, queer, and trans people, and people with low incomes who will experience the harshest impacts of anti-abortion legislation.

This brief offers an analysis of how our movements are connected, and how to push back against a widening web of criminalization.

This is an older document with references to a history of legal rights being stripped long preceeding the current Trump administration. However, the information is still valuable and can be applied to other countries as well.

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JohnnyEnzyme piefed.social JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-06-11
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That's utterly, thoroughly disgusting IMO.

I feel like as a wannabe-student of history, I know what this flows directly out of, and TL;DR it's a power-grab, hierarchy-grab, and gender-grab.

I.e., it's a complete gut-punch and massive betrayal to who we are at core, across the history of human-kind.

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