We don’t know if Lucy, Anarcha, or Betsey lived to see the day he died, but when the man who touted himself as a doctor and pioneer in genecology decided to operate on them without anesthesia, they went through more than physical suffering.

Today, remember that many of the people seeking Reproductive Justice are in marginalized communities. They are people who have been treated as property for centuries before being ostracized, drugged, shoved into unwanted land, and then blamed for their own deaths at the hands of white vigilantes and police officers.

Today remember that until abortion is accessible and available for Black people, People of Colour, Trans people, Indigenous people, Migrant people, and poor people…. abortion is not accessible.

A victory that is not intersectional is not a victory. It only prolongs the oppressions of others.