Washington Post: Erin Matson, action vice president at the National Organization for Women, comments on Keenan's resignation from leading NARAL:
Young, women activists are very angry, and we’re feisty. We want to put on our loafers and go lobby. But we also want to put on our sneakers, go outside, and yell. I think we need a movement that incorporates all of that.
. . . From everything I’ve seen, the most motivated group on abortion rights are conservative, older white men, which is scary.
. . . When you look at the people who were alive during Roe talk about it, it’s as if they were the ones struggling, and everything now is just maintenance. You hear a lot of talk of ‘never go back’ and about rolling back rights. For younger women of reproductive ago, the way we’ve come to this isn’t about taking away rights. It’s about, why is my birth control so * expensive? Why do I have to forgo a week’s worth of groceries to afford an abortion? That’s a huge issue. So I think the frame of a past referential, this idea of ‘let’s not go back,’ isn’t as relevant to a younger generation.
Editor: At $300-$1,000 for a first-trimester abortion, that's a lot of groceries!
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