Moms are speaking out for abortion rights today. Join them.

This is a hard Mother's Day for many.

Since the Supreme Court majority opinion was leaked on May 2, the potential loss of reproductive rights has never been greater. Anti-choicers argue that abortion is against motherhood.

The Guttmacher Institute found that 59 percent of women who had abortions already had children. The financial consequences for women denied reproductive rights have been found by other data.

The fight for reproductive rights is about protecting a mother's rights, choices, and health.

Not all people who give birth become parents or identify as mothers because of threats to reproductive rights. It is a good idea to listen to what mothers have to say about how this threat to reproductive rights impacts them.

Many mothers are asking people to skip flowers this year and give them what they really want for Mother's Day 2022, action and support.

Outside the Supreme Court in Washington D.C., there is a Mother's Day protest. TikTokers put on a Mother's Day strike, although other civil rights organizers on the platform disagree with its approach. Abortion rights groups like RiseUp4AbortionRights are encouraging people to share their stories and support through the #MotherhoodIsAChoice hashtag on social media.

Most of the time, the expressions of support for mothers reproductive rights are being shared organically on social media.

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Over the past week, mothers have published their personal stories and perspectives on the most recent and dire threat to abortion rights.

The best gift for Mother's Day was written by a columnist in a Washington Post article. Give mothers control over their bodies.

We don’t want the flowers, the chocolate, the pedicure or the redirection that Republican leaders and their friends in conservative media have engaged in since Politico first reported a leaked copy of the Supreme Court’s draft opinion.

A New Orleans-based journalist wrote about how becoming a mother in Louisiana has made her more supportive of abortion rights.

"Now, contrary to what Matt Gaetz might think, most of the people I was texting with on Tuesday night are mothers... I am a cisgender white-passing Latina woman living in the South. I have layers upon layers of privilege and support. I wanted my kids. I planned for them. I love them, dearly. But parenting two young children in the hellscape of the last two years nearly broke me."

The author of The Purity Myth and Sex Object, Jessica Valenti, used Mother's Day to share her story about the difficult decision she made to end her pregnancy.

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I could write more about why the people trying to ban abortion don’t really care about babies and families, about the ways in which they claim to revere mothers while discounting our knowledge and needs. But I won’t get into that today. Today, more than any other day, I just want to write one thing: I trust women, and I trust mothers. 

Even though it remains a point of debate, the human right to bodily autonomy should be self-evident. It should not be contingent on a person's motherhood or sacrifice in order for people to care enough to protect reproductive rights. One of the first flawed arguments used as a line of attack by anti-choice advocates was feigned concern for mothers.

Many mothers are not having it today or any day. I have found that it is a good idea to listen to mothers.