The threats almost always come from men.
What these threats have in common with those aimed at anti-abortion activists is their highly gendered nature. “It's mostly like, personal hate,” Phoebe,* a young anti-abortion activist told us. “It's not even like, ‘Oh, we don't like you because you're pro-life,’ but, ‘You're ugly. You're fat.’”
“They certainly drive by all the time,” Ratna told us. “Leave a note threatening to kill your dog, set a fire on your lawn, camp out at your workplace. … People give up. You can’t do it anymore … [It] essentially crushes the will [of activists].” According to Melissa Fowler, chief program officer at the National Abortion Federation, those attacking abortion rights groups are “the same people who stormed the Capitol on January 6 to try and overthrow the government,” she said inAfter Marjorie Taylor Greene introduced the Protecting Mothers and Babies From Terrorism Act, which proposes to categorize some pro-choice groups as domestic terrorist organizations, Cathy and her group began to take increased precautions, including organizing and...
“That's when I decided to move some conversations to Signal," Cathy said. "Not that I've ever had any conversation that would warrant it, but that's the level … the anti-choice movement really drives and strives on … ‘Let me shame you into silence.’ That's really the basis for their entire movement to try to shame and stigmatize abortion and also activism.” for security and protection from surveillance than anti-abortion activists do.
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