Yeah, I just want more people to understand that before the fall of Roe, before Dobbs, it was hard as hell to get an abortion, already. And like if you are fat, if you're Black, you lived in a rural community, if you had other children, if you were poor, if you were in an abusive relationship. Like all of these factors that I, some of which I have dealt with, you know, myself, some of which I intimately know people who have dealt with those situations like all of those situations, make it more and more difficult for you to access the care that you need. And there was just something really deeply unsettling about people talking about the fall of Roe as if those conditions prior to didn't already exist. And also working in Georgia. I was like, it was so silly to me, listening to the script that had to be read over the phone, when someone would make their appointment, like the state-mandated script that people would have to read right, or that minors have to tell their parents. Like all of these barriers that existed was just ridiculous to me. And I think it was already difficult. And so the Dobb's decision just kind of added insult to injury. And I'll also say like, I was working at the clinic during like the 2019 quote unquote heartbeat bill, like when it first started, when like, it was first introduced, when it was tied up in courts when and you know, now, I don't think you've ever told me that we would be living in this moment now? Where like that shit is enforced, like, anyway, but I yeah, I just don't think people realize how hard it already was and who it affects. And the fact that like, even if abortion is legal, the mis- and disinformation about if it's legal, how many weeks, like all of that keeps people from even calling the clinic in the first place. So I think that's really difficult is because I know that I can't reach everybody to let them know what their rights are. And like, there's still somebody out there thinking that abortion is completely illegal when they're eligible for one, and they're not going to get one. So yeah.

Yemi On Access To Abortion Care

Georgia Dusk is an intergenerational oral history of southern liberation movements documenting Black, queer, & feminist organizers and cultural workers in the state of Georgia.

Yemi On Access To Abortion Care

Georgia Dusk: a southern liberation oral history