Are there any progressive/activist/women’s rights organizations working on building an abortion pill underground postal service for the massive abortion desert(s) inflicted upon much of the central and southern United States of America? · 12:25pm May 8th, 2022
Are there any progressive/activist/women’s rights organizations working on building an abortion pill underground postal service for the massive abortion desert(s) inflicted upon much of the central and southern United States of America?
All people deserve the right to bodily autonomy. Unfortunately, motivated mostly by misogyny and religious extremism, many in positions of power in America disagree. Mostly men, but sadly women too. (I would be shocked if a single non-binary anti-abortion politician exists, but who knows. People are strange.) Anyways, I won’t wax poetic about shitty hypocritical conservative “Christian” “Pro-Life” people/mindsets/philosophies; we all know they suck.
But, maybe I can help in my own way fight back, and that’s why you’re reading this. Hi, my name’s Bryan, I’m a 30 yr old cis man living in Southern California, and I would like to join or build efforts to help people(of all genders, but obvious it’s mostly cis women who are effected.) be able to control their bodies and terminate their pregnancy if they chose to. I’m a libertarian socialist, who believes governments exist to expand/support/uplift peoples’ abilities, rights, freedoms, happiness, etc., with things like universal healthcare, education, worker protections, social services, etc. Not control their bodies with the war on drugs, banning abortions, ruining the lives of trans people, etc. like it turns out a lot of folks very big on “Liberty” are in fact hellbent on seeing through.
But my favorite MLK Jr. quote is “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” We will win. Love will conquer hate, joy over pain, etc. Those misguided people who seek to inflict their own pain on others can be defeated. And because hope is the most powerful weapon in existence, will be defeated. But only if we fight.
So lets fucking fight, my friends. Let’s fucking fight to help the folks being hurt. Because fuck the hatred. Let’s bring some love to the dinner table, and baby, let’s feast.
Sometimes loving your neighbor means helping a stranger you’ll never meet thousands of miles away safely get an abortion.
For millions of American women and others who can get pregnant, getting an abortion is a battle against time, money, access, distance, capitalism, logistics, white supremacy, misogyny, reactionaries, fundamentalism, etc.. Reproductive healthcare clinics should be accessible and affordable for all. But right now, people who suck have the indirect ability to make it nearly impossible for many to visit one, and they are few in number, large, easily located, immobile, expensive, require various doctors, nurses, and staffers to operate them, and overall very vulnerable to people who suck targetting them in multitudinous ways. Fortunately, there is another option.
For over a hundred years, battling the unfathomable evil that was the ownership of humans as property enshrined as legal in the United States Constitution until 1865 and reflected in the legacy of white supremacy very much continuing to poison America’s blood today, brave, honorable, beautiful, loving human beings of all races and colors worked together to build The Underground Railroad, a clandestine network of safehouses and guides ferrying black people escaping slavery to freedom in the north. Seriously go read about Harriet Tubman she is absolutely one of the baddest of all BAMFs to ever walk the Earth and I really hope there’s an afterlife I can meet her in. She and the many thousands of others who built this system with blood, sweat, tears, and often their lives directly inspired what I write about now. Mind you I really hope I don’t do the dying part for a while. But that’s not for me to decide.
But I digress. As I was saying, Abortion clinics are few in number, large, easily located, immobile, expensive, require various doctors, nurses, and staffers to operate them, and overall very vulnerable to people who suck.
Abortion pills are mass produced, tiny, incredibly easy to smuggle, few things are mobiler, relatively cheap, self-administered, and overall basically impossible to completely eliminate if you’re a person who sucks.
You do the math.
I’ve been studying how systems work for the last half year. I want to directly and tangibly make the world a better place by applying my knowledge and creativity to help others. I want to build a loose, not-super-hiearchal network of drivers, vehicles, distributors, dispatchers, security and intel, financers, organizers, and at least indirectly manufacturers to get abortion pills quickly, safely, and inexpensively into the hands of people who need them. Not a railroad escaping out, something instead delivering in. I want to build an underground postal service.
I really hope multiple amazing people and organizations who care are already and have been working on this sort of concept/idea/system. But if not, well, I’ve always said creativity is my greatest strength and I’ve recently realized studying systems is my greatest passion, and I’ve realized over the last few days, this could be a way to help realize my greatest goal: helping people. While again, I probably won’t get killed over this, and my safe location and various privileges the reasons I can post this so openly in the first place, I do recognize that--especially if I (and I love driving and want to lead by example, so it would probably happen) engage in this fight on location--several decades of jail time are possible. But both my hubris and love convince me that’s not likely and the risk is so very much more than worth it. I may not be able to change laws and I can only change so many hearts, but changing a single life for the better? That I can certainly do.
I want to build an underground postal service to delivery abortion pills to those who need them.
Will you join me in my dream?
With love, hope, kindness, and joy,
Bryan Chandler
(714) 496-3119
bchandleremail@gmail.com
Thank you for reading this (whoever you are wherever that may be; I’m posting it in various places), and if you’d like to read more of my rambling systems studies notes, you can do so here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SvdkPwlmFp6FLGE9Mm1J26r897xQQPOSm3tuwFWJ3k0/edit?usp=sharing
I wish you many blessings, and please remember to drink lots of water, be kind, spread love, build hope, share joy, and have a great day.
I support this.
I like how you just had to say something like that, because you're a communist.
You do realize that there's an above-ground postal service and they'll ship pretty much anything you want. I'm pretty sure a bottle of 'vitamins' would ship just fine with no problems.
How well do abortion pills even work anyway? If they're mass produced already, where are they being sold? Prescriptions, or what? I don't know much about the topic, tbh.
Good luck.