Hidden Suffering

The decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade will cause incredible suffering among some of our most-vulnerable communities.

Working in this business, you get to see behind the curtain. We get to hear the secrets, often for the first time. We get to see the overwhelming hypocrisy of such simplistic policies. We get to see just how many people are shocked to find themselves stuck in situations they had always envisioned other, less moral, less able, less righteous people within.

These policies don’t heal, they don’t work, and they are our business.

As healers working with stigmatized conditions among discriminated populations, we understand the human costs. The violence compounds with each level of ignorance. The results are very real, human, and absolutely unnecessary.

In a time of a presence of such overhelming, performative commitments to change, the least we can do is attempt to stand in solidarity with the women we serve.

The least we can do.

This isn’t about politics.

It’s about healthcare and our ethical commitments to respond to the suffering of human beings.

Full stop.