WHY WE NEED TO END THE FILIBUSTER

Article originally appeared in Dame Magazine on October 5th, 2020.

We Testify, an organization that uplifts marginalized voices to share their abortion stories and destigmatize abortion, supports Fix Our Senate’s mission through coalition member Just Democracy. Executive Director Renee Bracey Sherman explained why: “We Testify is for abolishing any relic of slavery and the Jim Crow era, and that includes the filibuster, ICE, and the police.”

“The system is not set up to respect all of the work and energy and power that we put behind sharing our abortion stories to then meet it with political change,” she said in a DAME interview.

“The filibuster is maintaining really racist, classist discrimination, especially on abortion.”