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demmiblue

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Sun Jan 23, 2022, 09:07 AM Jan 2022

Detroit activists launch guerrilla campaign for mail-order abortion pills on 'Roe v. Wade' anniversa [View all]



Around the city, more than 100 posters have been wheat-pasted onto walls with a bold message: “ABORTION PILLS FOREVER” along with a website address, “shareabortionpill.info,” where people can order abortion pills by mail.

The guerrilla information campaign is led by Jex Blackmore, an activist and artist whose work often grapples with sexual oppression and reproductive rights, in partnership with the national group Shout Your Abortion. It wrapped up on Saturday, the 49th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court case that protects a pregnant person’s right to choose to have an abortion.

“We’re hoping to harness the anniversary because it might be the last time we have an anniversary for Roe v. Wade,” Blackmore tells Metro Times.

On. Dec. 1, the Supreme Court heard opening arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Reproductive Health, a Mississippi case that challenges Roe v. Wade. With its conservative majority, the Supreme Court’s decision could lead to abortion being banned or heavily regulated in much of the country. In Michigan, a reversal of Roe v. Wade would automatically reinstate a 1931 law that criminalizes abortion as manslaughter — one of the most restrictive anti-abortion laws in the country.

https://www.metrotimes.com/the-scene/archives/2022/01/22/detroit-activists-launch-guerrilla-campaign-for-mail-order-abortion-pills
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