Did you watch Oprah Winfrey‘s speech at the Democratic National Convention?
She said:
“The women and men who are battling to keep us from going back to a time of desperation and shame and stone-cold fear, they are the new freedom fighters. And make no mistake: They are the best of America.”
And she was talking about YOU.
You have been a part of this movement, both in Ohio and across the country, working to restore abortion access following the fall of Roe v Wade. When you collected signatures, talked to your friends and neighbors about how to vote on Issue 1 (The Issue 1 last August, last November, or this November — they’re all important!), registered new voters, knocked on doors, and shared your stories… this is how we fight, and when we fight, we win!
Her comments about your work followed a discussion of the abortion storytellers who had shared their experiences at the DNC already:
“Now, over the last couple of nights, we have all seen brave people walk onto the stage and share their most private pain. Amanda and Josh, Kaitlyn, Hadley—they told us their stories of rape and incest and near-death experiences from having the state deny them the abortion that their doctor explained was medically necessary. And they told us these things for one reason, and that is to keep what happened to them from happening to anybody else. Because if you do not have autonomy over this — (Winfrey gestures to her body) over this — if you cannot control when and how you choose to bring your children into this world and how they are raised and supported, there is no American dream.”
This work could not be more important, and at this moment it is incredibly critical that we push forward as hard as we possibly can. All gas, no brakes!
