OpSave Episode 4: Legislative Advocacy - Abortion Bans Are FKing Trash: Learn to Say This to an Elected Official Without Saying “FKing” or “Trash”

Author: Abortion Access Front
Published: Fri 26 Aug 2022
Episode Link: https://www.aafront.org/fbklive/

Welcome to Episode Four of Operation Save Abortion! Thanks for committing to listening to this pod series and for making a commitment to learn more, act more, fund more, and raise hell more in this fight for abortion and bodily autonomy. This is NOT a pod series you listen to while cleaning out your closet. It’s about listening with friends and utilizing the activity and discussion guide designed for each episode to deepen your knowledge. The goal is helping you discover which part of abortion activism is right for you, so you can help build and grow community.

Each of the five episodes features amazing experts from the reproductive health, rights, and justice movements who share the opportunities available for us to show up and show out.

Before you get into episode Four, listen to Episode 1 if you haven’t already. It is pretty much your “Reproductive Justice 101” crash course. Abortion activism is just one part of this intersectional movement, so this first episode is designed to help ground your experience throughout this series and overall abortion advocacy in a Reproductive Justice Framework, making sure to center those most most affected by these harmful laws, and by following Black, Brown and Indigenous leadership as we fight for bodily autonomy.

We know all that rage in you is just yelling, “abortion bans are f**king trash!” So, we put together Episode 4 as a guide on how to turn this rage into much needed legislative advocacy. This next episode covers the challenges we are facing legislatively and what you can do about it! Our panel is going to introduce you to ways you can help get these old ass abortion laws off the books, help folks who face criminalization for pregnancy outcomes, and how to actually say some game-changing shit to those in legislature. You’re going to leave this episode learning how to organize against these bans and you’re going to hear about the wins folks have accomplished and the steps they took to get them!

LET’S WORK!

Questions? [email protected].

English transcript available HERE.

Spanish transcript available HERE.

SPECIAL GUESTS:

Moderator: Moji Alawode-El, Abortion Access Front / IG + TW: @AbortionFront

Aurea Bolaños Perea, COLOR Latina / IG: @color_latina TW: @colorlatina

Jessica González-Rojas, NYS Assemblywoman / IG + TW: @voteJGR

Rockie Gonzalez, Frontera Fund & Austin Justice Coalition / IG: @fronterafundrgv & @austinjusticecoalition TW: @LaFronteraFund @ATXJustice

Arpita Appannagari, National Institute For Reproductive Health / TW: @nirhealth

EPISODE LINKS:

Operation Save Abortion Activity Guide [English]