Laurel Elder, Mary-Kate Lizotte and Steven Greene
Rewire News Group
The stability that defined abortion politics for half a century is gone. Abortion rights have become more widely supported and more politically consequential, motivating Democratic voters while creating new tensions within the Republican coalition.
Lawmakers who support reproductive rights must recognize that abortion access and mass surveillance are incompatible. Systems built to track stolen cars and issue parking tickets have morphed into today’s reproductive dragnet.
The Palestinian solidarity movement within Planned Parenthood is an example of how working-class power can be used to clarify connections between struggles, even when they seem to be disconnected from our own workplace, geographically or otherwise.
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