Outraged Doesn’t Even Cover It

I was sitting in the middle of a mastermind of 20 entrepreneurial women last Friday when our phones began buzzing in unison.

“I can’t believe this.”

“How is this happening?”

“I am scared for my daughter.”

An outpouring of messages from the women we know, love, and admire—all of us tumbling together through waves of emotion from fear to sadness to rage.?

In one fell swoop, abortion rights had been gutted by the Supreme Court,?along with a hint of the rights they’re coming for next.

As I watched women flood the streets this weekend, one message from protestors seemed quite clear: politics is what got us to this place, and no politician is going to change this.

We are sick of having our health and fundamental rights leveraged as a rallying cry to raise money and votes for either side of the aisle—our bodies shouldn’t be up for debate each election season.

We deserve the right to choose freely what is best for ourselves, our bodies, our families—without the government intervening.?

And we’re not going to give up until things change.

Things feel regressive and scary right now, but here is what’s giving me hope.?

Amazing networks of women are coming together to?ensure that women still have access to the abortion pill, and thus the ability to decide their future,?regardless of what changes individual states are making to their abortion laws after the ruling.

They are offering?support,?resources,?transportation, and education to remind women that this will not be the end.

We will not be forced back into the 1950s.

We are taking to the streets.

And we’re not stopping until we are all free to live the lives we choose.

—Madeline?