https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CfXPQS5hlsg\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nGloria and Meghan spoke at length to Jessica Yellin about why it is vital to keep hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ve included some excerpts but make time to go read the entire thing if you can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meghan on trigger laws and life in those states<\/strong>: \u201cThis is having a very real impact on women\u2019s bodies and lives starting now. Women are already sharing stories of how their physical safety is being put in danger. Women with resources will travel to get an abortion, those without might attempt to give themselves one at tremendous risk. Some will have to source abortion pills from unregulated pharmacies. Others who are pregnant and find themselves in a medical emergency will be at the mercy of doctors and lawyers to determine if a procedure that is needed to save her life can even be done at all. What does this tell women? It tells us that our physical safety doesn\u2019t matter, and as a result that we don\u2019t matter. But we do. Women matter. And this is one of the reasons that I called Gloria immediately. Because in all of it, she reminds me that when you have anger, you have to channel that energy into something that makes a difference. That\u2019s what activism is. It\u2019s about how we show up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nOn maternal mortality rates<\/strong>: M<\/strong>: These issues are systemic, interconnected, and preventable. Women of color and especially Black women are most impacted by these decisions because most of us don\u2019t have the same access to health care, economic opportunity, mental health resources\u2026the list goes on. It\u2019s difficult to overstate what this decision is going to do to these communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\nG.S.:<\/strong> When I first entered into this struggle for reproductive freedom as a fundamental human right, it was the 1970s. Ruth Ginsburg was with the ACLU and she sent me to Alabama to talk with a Black woman who had been sterilized without her knowledge or permission when she went into the hospital for something else entirely. So, you know, this was a struggle with quite a few state legislatures to keep them from allowing the sterilization of women who were on public support.<\/p>\n\n\n\nGloria on what to do next, and how to make a difference<\/strong>: \u201cIt depends where the person is. If they\u2019re living in an anti-choice state or with a state that has a majority anti-choice legislature, then working politically is very important. If they\u2019re in a pro-choice state where the clinics are being picketed or not supported, then it\u2019s important to protect and support those clinics. But wherever we are, we can make clear that reproductive freedom is a fundamental right like freedom of speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWe are the only democracy in the world that doesn\u2019t include women in its constitution. I think we should put big billboards up in every airport where people arrive from other countries saying, \u201cWelcome to the only democracy in the world that doesn\u2019t include women.\u201d Maybe that would embarrass people into action. All the necessary states have ratified [the ERA], and it just needs acceptance in Congress. So if the president made it a priority, it could happen. It means that we would be on the same standing of inclusiveness as every other democracy in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meghan on the role men play in the fight for equal rights<\/strong>: \u201cMen need to be vocal in this moment and beyond because these are decisions that affect relationships, families, and communities at large. They may target women, but the consequences impact all of us. My husband and I talked about that a lot over the past few days. He\u2019s a feminist too, and his reaction last week was guttural, like mine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n**Meghan on hope: \u201c**I know that for so many women right now, there is a sentiment of despair. But again, we have to band together and not wallow. We have to do the work.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gloria on hope<\/strong>: \u201cI think we need to remember that hope is a form of planning. If you\u2019re not hopeful, you\u2019ve given up.<\/p>\n\n\n\nFrom Vogue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gloria and Meghan spoke at length to Jessica Yellin about why it is vital to keep hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brutaluterus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brutaluterus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brutaluterus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brutaluterus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brutaluterus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brutaluterus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"https:\/\/brutaluterus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brutaluterus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brutaluterus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brutaluterus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brutaluterus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}