Women become safer when other women tell the truth.
Not every private detail belongs online. But the polished version of womanhood has left too many women believing they are uniquely failing at things that are common, predictable and survivable.
Tell your younger friend what motherhood has truly taught you. Tell your sister what ignoring red flags did to your nervous system. Tell your daughter how money works. Tell your friend what you ignored before your health collapsed.
Women have always protected one another by passing knowledge sideways.
We do not need to expose ourselves completely, but we do need to stop making reality look effortless.
The sadism is the point. Forced-birthers will still call her a whore & murderer & use her case as evidence women are irresponsible & deserve to be punished with forced birth & death.
But forced-birthers will continue to lie about this. By denying that abortions are required for many miscarriages, they deliberately leave women to die.
A 12-year-old girl in Nigeria was forced to marry a 45-year-old man because her family owed a debt.
She bled for weeks.
When she tried to run, they tied her ankles.
She died in childbirth.
Local officials called it "cultural tradition." International headlines called it "tragic but complex."
I call it m*rder dressed up in silence and sanctioned by men.
But hey, let's keep debating whether child marriage is "really that bad."
@GOP__Ls Congrats to republicans. They yell about all the immigrants from third world countries streaming into the country while at the same time are turning the USA into a said third world country. SO MUCH WINNING!
@GOP__Ls@TheTNHoller Now Tennessee has the highest maternal mortality rate in the US, b/c they have an abortion ban. It's like all the abortion ban (all red) states are competing with ea. other for maternal mortality. https://t.co/juYaGaDwhV
@GOP__Ls Forced birth people think they're trading dead babies for alive babies when in reality they're trading dead babies for dead mothers AND babies.