1 Year After "Dobbs," We Must Build Movements to Defeat Anti-Abortion Extremists

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : Clinic defense, a decades-old practice of protecting patients from right-wing and often christo-fascist harassment, shows anti-abortion extremists that there is no place for them in our communities, and provides resistance in the event of more extreme right-wing violence like firebombing and clinic invasions.
55% : But if we want to win the fight against anti-abortion extremists in our country, it will take all of us.
49% : To win free nationwide abortion on demand -- because we deserve nothing less -- it will take a mass grassroots movement to not only help each other access safe abortions, but to also insist on a right to abortion in clinics and by pill as a guarantee of our bodily autonomy.
47% : For example, even though out-of-state patients can now receive medication abortion though Planned Parenthood of Montana, only Montana residents can take advantage of their offer for pills by mail.
45% : A recent New Yorker investigation detailed how Planned Parenthood, which has come to represent the vanguard of the movement in the public eye and collected the lion's share of donations and funding, has in fact shied away from defending abortion in the interests of protecting itself as an institution, while independent clinics have assumed most of the risk.
45% : Clinic defense also reminds patients that abortion is not an exceptional, taboo event, but rather an act of liberation and self-prioritization.
44% : In Florida, the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, known as the FACE Act, is being used to bring federal charges against activists who vandalized a crisis pregnancy center, a type of nonmedical organization pretending to offer counseling and services but in reality deceives and manipulates pregnant people seeking reproductive health care including abortion.
44% : When Planned Parenthood of Montana announced to their staff that they would no longer provide medication abortion services to patients visiting from another state, independent clinics stepped up to provide this legally precarious care to patients traveling for abortion care, but with less protection and a fraction of the financial safety net of Planned Parenthood affiliates.
40% : Similarly, while courageous providers have been mailing abortion pills to restricted states, Planned Parenthood still refuses to send pills across state lines.

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