To the Men Celebrating the Death of Roe vs. Wade.

An open letter to the cheerleading conservatives.

Lauren Elizabeth
3 min readJun 27, 2022
Photo by Gayatri Malhotra on Unsplash

I just want to talk.

Not to Republican lawmakers right now, who have spent fifty years crafting, waiting, and planning for the moment that Roe vs. Wade would be overturned. Not to Democratic lawmakers either, whose borderline criminal, absolutely infuriating incompetence and inability to get anything done— in this instance among others — is literally going to get people killed.

No, I want to talk to the right wing voter. The men in particular.

Men all across the country who — as one of my charming old high school classmates put it on Facebook— are celebrating the end of “casual hookup culture”.

“Don’t have sex in the bathroom in the frat house, then…”

“If you aren’t adult enough to raise a child stop having sex…”

“Happy Roe vs. Wade day!”

You really think you’re teaching women a lesson, don’t you?

The sluts gotta learn, right?

Well first, I suppose I could offer my congratulations. Well played. You succeeded, didn’t you? You won this fight, and thanks to the efforts of the party you have elected, tens of millions if not hundreds of women have lost the…

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Lauren Elizabeth

Lauren is a writer & leftist with analysis on topics related to politics & policy. She can be reached at LaurenMartinchek@gmail.com or Twitter @xlauren_mx