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Dear Democrats, My Human Rights Aren’t Your Fundraising Opportunity.
Will Democrats actually do something, or just send emails?
Nancy Pelosi’s response to the death of Roe vs. Wade has been weighing on my mind heavily lately.
A poem.
She actually read a poem.
In response to the loss of our right to bodily autonomy, Nancy Pelosi, the most powerful person in the House of Representatives, just stood in front of the cameras, read a poem, and said she hoped that the Supreme Court would open their eyes.
If you’ve ever donated to a politician running on the Democratic ticket, open your email. Open your email, go to the spam folder, and I guarantee you won’t have to scroll for more than a few seconds before finding an email from a Democratic lawmaker or, in my case, from the fundraising office of Nancy Pelosi herself.
The email I got on the 25 of June read:
“I need your immediate attention.
Trump’s Supreme Court just ruled to rip reproductive rights away from every single woman in this country.
I don’t say this lightly, Lauren:
How we act TODAY will decide the future of reproductive rights.
We can either sit back…
