'We still can control the future.” In an interview with nicolesphelps, The Jane Collective founder Heather Booth opens up about what we can do to protect women’s reproductive rights, and how to prevent the further dismantling of democracy.
was premiering on television. If the dystopian future it depicted seemed not improbable, at least it was still fiction. Today, with the Supreme Court all but guaranteed to overturn, an underground network of young women who provided safe abortions in pro-Roe v. Wade Chicago, and a subject of a new HBO documentary of, was a speaker at this year’s edition of Burch’s Summit. A lifelong organizer, Booth refuses to bend to pessimism, but she understands the threat of illegal abortion all too well.
Heather Booth: It’s a challenging moment, because there is a politicized, really MAGA, faction that is threatening women, threatening this most intimate freedom of a person’s life about when or whether or with whom we have a child, threatening our freedom to vote, threatening a freedom for who we can marry—there are many threats right now. But it’s also true that there is a vital movement for justice, equality, and fairness in society.
Many things have changed and the only reason they’ve changed is because people organized, particularly women have organized, but also men of goodwill. And that transformation is not changing. In fact, there are times when moments of crisis—and this is a moment of crisis—brings forth greater resurgence, greater outpouring. And I think that’s one thing that’s also likely to happen.
As a lifelong organizer, what do you say to people who do feel paralyzed by this situation? How can you fight this as an individual?
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