Testify

Testify!

It is time the
TRUTH BE TOLD.

Under patriarchy, the stories that point to the reality of the enslavement of women and the need for true liberation are covered up and suppressed. It makes a huge difference whether or not people are OUTRAGED at a society that treats women like an object, a thing, a means to an end. These stories can be hard to tell; it is liberating to join a community of resistance that is hell bent on telling the truth, waking others up, and fighting to end patriarchy. The personal is political.

Here you will find stories that illustrate the importance of abortion rights, the tragedy of what happens when abortion is illegal, unapologetic abortion stories - in other words, stories that get at the real truth about abortion. If you have another story you want to tell or statement you want to make about rape or rape culture, pornography, or other forms of patriarchy, send it in right here. Making videos that promote and encourage others to get organized with Stop Patriarchy are also a great contribution.

Above: Shameless speak-out for abortion on demand & without apology, November 2013, in response to a proposed ban on abortion at 20 weeks.

Abortion rights are in a state of emergency and hurtings toward disaster. To find out more, CLICK HERE. A stifling stigma and taboo persists, despite the fact that 1 in 3 women have had abortions. If nothing changes...

"Women will begin dying from dangerous illegal abortions. Others will be imprisoned for self-inducing abortions. Thousands more will have their lives foreclosed by being forced to bear children they do not want – shattering their dreams, trapping them in abusive relationships, and/or driving them into humiliating and dangerous poverty. Rural, poor, immigrant, and women of color will be hardest hit."

[from a statement initiated by Abortion Rights Freedom Ride Advisory Board Members]

It is going to take determined people, standing up and speaking out in this crucial moment, to influence the way that millions of others understand what is at stake for women in the battle for abortion rights.

Today, be someone who dares to take a stand for women's lives.
There is nothing "moral" about denying women the right to abortion.
Forced motherhood is female enslavement!
Abortion rights are worth fighting for.
Abortion on demand & without apology!
ADD YOUR VOICE (right). IT MATTERS.

To contribute your written testimony, to be published and/or read at national speak-outs...

CLICK HERE

"We made abortion and a woman’s ability to be her own master a Right. That Right was codified into law. That law was the law of the land for decades. My own mother fought to make herself more than a possession; she lived her life as a mother who chose when she would have children, and a wife who could earn a living if she so chose. I want my daughters to enjoy that same choice. I don’t want to turn back the hands of time to when women shuttled across state lines in the thick of night to resolve an unwanted pregnancy, in a cheap hotel room just south of the state line. Where a transaction of $600 cash becomes the worth of a young woman’s life." -from Mark Ruffalo, actor and director, to the Abortion Rights Freedom Ride 2013

Record video testimony of yourself and people you know speaking for a minute or two, which can include but shouldn't be limited to, these questions:

What happens to women when abortion is illegal?
Why is abortion on demand and without apology worth fighting for?
What message to do you want to send to a generation who has been told that abortion is murder?

Then put it on YouTube or online elsewhere, and submit the link below!