I thought she was a good Catholic lady who supported the Church's position on overturning Roe v. Wade after 1973.
Then one day she sat me down and told me about a friend who'd died from a self-induced abortion on the "home front" during WWII.
Quietly, my grandmother and some of her friends located nurses and other 'safe' providers, and helped young women in distress. They went to other states and even to Canada (it was illegal there, too, but there were Canadian providers who helped.)
They never talked about it, even after 1973. They weren't activists, or radical, they were just taking care of women in need.
Too many died.
Too many.
But somehow I don't think it's going to go that way again.
This time there won't be the silence.
We'll go to jail if we have to. We'll do whatever's necessary. We'll be LOUD. In public.
The stories will be shouted, not whispered.
The rape victims, the abused girls, the desperate women with health conditions and no support, the battered women.
We won't shut up.
The deaths will not be covered up with bullshit stories about "infections" or "pneumonia" or "sepsis following a dental procedure" or any of the dozens of lies that were told to keep people from knowing the actual body count.
Not again.
determinedly,
Bright
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