I Protested for Abortion Rights at the Supreme Court but Left Angrier than When I Arrived
By Amanda Houdeschell
Last week I was in Washington, DC to rally for women’s sports on the anniversary of Title IX. When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on the following day, I was presented with another opportunity to stand up for women’s rights: protesting at the Supreme Court just hours after this devastating ruling.
I have organized and attended many protests over the years for a multitude of causes. I show up not only to express my outrage at injustice, but also to stand side by side with like-minded individuals and commiserate together.
But since “woman” has now become a dirty word to “progressives,” acknowledgment of men’s hatred for women is conspicuously absent from these events.
This decision would be just as disastrous even if no one else’s rights were on the chopping block. Misogyny is enough to be outraged over. Women are enough.
There is no way to know for certain what has caused this dilution of the women’s movement, but I do know that Planned Parenthood spending valuable time and money on unnecessary medical interventions for trans-identified people is not helping. The National Organization for Women adopting “gender identity” protections into their core issues is not helping. The push for every women’s rights organization and march and event to cover every single “social justice” issue - including those that actually erode women’s rights - is not helping; it is destroying the women’s rights movement so that it is completely unrecognizable to our mothers, grandmothers, and great-grandmothers who fought so hard for our rights.