A Sydney woman took inspiration from an iconic decades-old stunt when she created the #ArrestUs campaign on Monday.
Less than 24 hours later, hundreds of people had joined her in challenging lawmakers to either finally make abortion legal, or enforce the 119-year-old law that says it’s a crime — and arrest them for ending their pregnancies.
At the end of July, union organiser Emily Mayo read an article about Wendy McCarthy, a reproductive rights campaigner who took out a newspaper ad in the early 1970s alongside 80 other women announcing they had had illegal abortions — to “provoke the cops” into punishing them the way poor women regularly were, as McCarthy put it. Read more...
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