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Sorry, should I have finished it off by hitting the caps lock and typing "VOTE", since that seems to be the reigning definition of activism around here? I could rattle off the number of times I've been in the streets in protest (all of them more recently than 1973) but that's not the point; the point is that some of y'all of *ahem* a certain age need to take a clear-eyed look at how deeply obnoxious you are when you blame younger generations (which include people who are, like myself *literally middle aged by now*) for the political hellscape they are in by implying that we're here because, unlike yourselves fifty years ago, we *just didn't work hard enough*. This is especially true of abortion access. The all-out assault on reproductive liberty was well underway by the time I was born. *89% of the counties in America* lacked an abortion provider *before* this heinous ruling. We have literally never lived in a country in which our autonomy over our bodies was protected.

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I'm forty. Save the young miss for the kids on your lawn. I'm also the granddaughter of a woman who was a nurse in pre-Roe America who made sure to impress upon my mother and I the horror of what she saw. Even back in the olden days (that is, the 90s) before I could vote, I was getting ready for what I knew was going to be a lifelong fight for reproductive autonomy, even if at the time all I could do was read up and speak out. By the time I could vote I could add protest, clinic support, and eventually financial support to that list. But I don't owe you my CV, especially since you seem to be under the impression that rights are something you secure for others in exchange for their fealty. I never experienced the full rights extended by Roe; they were already being unraveled by the time I was born, much less by the time I had the ability to respond.

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