Gloria Steinem On Roe v. Wade Repeal

I love this feminist! Featured on businessinsider.com, this is what she’s said:

“Controlling reproduction is the first step in any hierarchical or authoritarian government.”

“Without the right of women and men to make decisions about our own bodies, there is no democracy.”

“Banning abortions does not stop the need. It just bans their safety.”

“The ruling guarantees civil disobedience and disrespect for the court.”

“Don’t agonize. Organize.”

When I think about all the talk of how our democracy is in peril, actually, we have not had a semblance of a democratic system of government for quite some time. As long as I’ve been voting, the Supreme Court has been political, even making George W. Bush president in 2000 and giving us Citizens United in 2010, we have gerrymandering and the Electoral College taking precedent over the popular vote, the far-right hijacking the majority, no separation of church and state and, as is evident with this, accelerated social inequality and injustice.