Paige Sweet is the Political & Field Organizer with NARAL Pro-Choice Missouri. She has served as a volunteer advocate for abused women and a sexual assault peer educator. Her current project with NARAL focuses on trying to secure access to emergency contraception for victims of rape in Missouri hospitals.
The strategic and systematic chipping away at women’s control over their reproduction is strikingly similar to the way a batterer places bruises on a woman’s body so they don’t show in public.
It’s time we start recognizing attacks on abortion access for what they really are: violence against women.
It
seems that the anti-healthcare reformers have taken a page from the anti-choice
playbook: intimidate, vilify, harass. Or it could just be that familiar
anti-choice hatred cloaked in "family values" seeping through, maddening those
of us who believe in the type of "family values" that would allow everyone’s
families to have healthcare.
