🔥 Burn It Down to Build It Right: The Real Truth About the Repro Movement After Roe
This manifesto is a brutal self-audit of a movement that failed to take a real look at itself—and a call to burn it down from the inside because at the core it is rotten.
✊ TL;DR:
We didn’t lose Roe because the other side was stronger.
We lost because we were unprepared, disconnected, and unserious.
This manifesto is a brutal self-audit of a movement that failed to figure out what really mattered—and a call to announce the Reproductive Health, Rights and Justice Movement is DEAD and it’s our own fault.
No more stall tactics.
No more excuses.
It’s time to get real.
📝 Intro:
Three years have passed since Roe v. Wade was overturned.
Despite the outrage, the protests, and the endless email blasts—nothing has fundamentally changed. Not because we didn’t care. But because we didn’t change.
This is not a eulogy. It’s a reckoning.
What follows is a manifesto. It’s raw and deeply honest.
If you’re tired of losing, read on.
If you’re part of the problem—consider this your eviction notice.
MANIFESTO: BURN IT DOWN FROM THE INSIDE TO BUILD IT RIGHT
We are the reason we lost Roe.
And we don’t deserve to win anything—because we are self-righteous, slow, smug, and stupid.
The other side didn’t outwit us.
They outworked us.
They planned while we performed.
They mobilized while we moralized.
And they won. That’s the reality.
We weren’t defeated by surprise.
We were defeated by our own delusion.
This movement failed—not because the opposition was unstoppable, but because we were unserious.
🧨 We Thought We Were Safe? Wake the Hell Up.
Roe was never secure. It was a shaky compromise dressed up as a permanent victory.
We treated it like a participation trophy.
We assumed the courts would save us.
We assumed public opinion was enough.
We assumed wrong.
Complacency is not a strategy. It’s suicide.
🗺️ No Plan. No Spine. No Excuse.
When Roe fell, there was no infrastructure ready.
No emergency playbook. No real network.
We weren’t blindsided—we refused to prepare.
This wasn’t a surprise. It was a slow-motion collapse we chose.
Meanwhile, the opposition spent decades building—with discipline, coordination, and cold, ruthless precision.
Clearly, words our movement is allergic to.
🧊 We Devoured Ourselves from the Inside.
Instead of fighting the real enemy, we fought each other.
We refused allies who didn’t have a uterus.
We exiled the passionate who weren’t the most marginalized.
We prioritized politics over power. Identity cliques over unity. Optics over outcomes.
We were addicted to purity.
We argued online while they took our rights offline.
🏛️ We Bet Everything on the Courts—and Got Crushed.
We turned legal precedent into religion.
We thought if we filed enough lawsuits, gave enough speeches, and hugged enough judges, we’d win.
Meanwhile, they were rewriting textbooks, training pastors, winning school boards, shaping culture.
They played the long game.
We played self-centered crybabies.
The law is a battleground—not the war.
💵 Millions Raised. Power Flushed.
The money flowed. The results didn’t.
Big orgs made noise. Small orgs threw tantrums.
Glossy campaigns drowned out effective work.
Donors funded feelings, not function.
Strategy became branding. Leadership became celebrity.
Where did the money go?
Look around. We’re lost—and there’s no money coming.
🧱 Our Movement Was Built on Sand.
When Roe fell, it exposed everything:
The cracks. The cowardice. The convenience over conviction.
We built a rights-based movement with no resilience, no spine, no survival instinct.
We talked about “choice.”
They built the machinery to eliminate it.
📣 Outrage Isn’t a Strategy. Screaming Isn’t Winning.
The response to Roe’s fall?
Performative grief. Email blasts. Instagram slides. Rage loops.
We didn’t organize—we reacted.
Get mad. Get money. Get marching. Get nothing.
We didn’t live in reality—we vented about it.
We didn’t fight. We melted down.
🚷 Still Playing a Dead Game.
The obsession with “restoring Roe” is a distraction.
Law is fragile.
Power is not legal—it’s transactional, financial, and tactical.
We need a movement that doesn’t beg the law to like us.
We need systems that don’t ask for permission.
If it’s not underground-ready, it’s not real.
🛑 Being Right Isn’t the Same as Being Effective.
We clung to moral high ground like it was armor.
It wasn’t. It was dead weight.
The other side didn’t need to be right. They needed to win.
And they did—because they had a plan.
We had platitudes.
Righteousness without results is just noise.
🔄 Same Tactics. Same Losers. Same Results.
We’re stuck in a loop of safe, stale, self-congratulatory garbage.
We cater to insiders.
We speak in code.
We recycle scripts.
We prioritize safety over innovation.
This movement needs fewer influencers, less nostalgia, and more insurgents—even if some are cis white men.
Burn the fake-ass playbook.
Hell, maybe borrow theirs while we’re at it.
🚨 ENOUGH.
Reflection time is over.
It’s time for reckoning.
We don’t get to lead if we don’t know how to win.
We don’t deserve a platform if we don’t know how to produce.
We can’t claim to be the movement—while killing it.
To those clinging to titles, brands, talking points:
Move, or be moved.
To those ready to fight like it matters:
Welcome.
We need to stop crying victim.
We need to stop kissing our risk assessments.
We need to stop acting like we’re triggered by a Zoom call.
We need to get our heads out of our asses, stop acting like pussies, and build a movement that will outsmart, outlast, and out-organize.
Not for ourselves—for the future.
❌ No more slogans.
❌ No more t-shirts.
❌ No more excuses.
Do we want reproductive freedom?
Then it’s past time to:
Shut up. Suit up. Start acting like it.
And yes—
we still have to burn it down from the inside.