Why Queer People Need Access to Safe Abortion and Why We Must Protect Roe
Roe v. Wade and the federal right to abortion to focus solely on the potential loss of marriage equality. As terrified as I am about losing the ability to marry my fiancé, I can’t ignore the fact that without the right to abortion and reproductive health care, there would be no marriage equality in the first place.
Queer people ignoring Roe because it might seem irrelevant for people in relationships with someone who cannot get them pregnant is shortsighted.
Maybe it seems counterintuitive because the stereotypical idea of queer or same-sex partnerships involves people of the same gender, but that is not always the case.
Both sexuality and gender are fluid and varied. AFAB nonbinary people, trans men, bisexual and pan women who date cis men — these are just some examples of those in the LGBTQ+ community who may need access to abortion care if they get pregnant and don’t want to be.
