Posted on Aug 17, 2022
Sorority members speak out on the overturn of Roe v. Wade, even when their organizations don’t
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."The fight continues inside and outside sororities
Despite all the letter writing and social media outrage, Dr. Hughey doubts sororities will update their statements and take a stronger stance for abortion rights, because “there's no political teeth behind” the outrage. The only way he believes headquarters will listen is if sisters end their membership thus bringing their organizations to their fiscal knees.
Sorority recruitment has begun for another school year, and as swaths of prospective members start to learn more about the organizations they hope to join, many will turn to social media. They will see outrage from current sisters and alumni in comment sections. But some organizers are pushing to take the fight off of social media, and to look beyond changing their sororities.
“Putting a spicy comment on your [sorority organization’s] Instagram page isn't going to do it,” says Gilbert Wallace, the former Delta Gamma international vice president of communications who is organizing sorority members for action. She doesn’t encourage directing anger toward sororities so much as toward lawmakers, and using the sorority system’s connections to insight change.
“Our goals right now are to educate ourselves on how to mobilize effectively, gather as many women who want to do that work, teach them how to do that work, and then deploy them state by state, district by district to do this work,” she says."
..."The fight continues inside and outside sororities
Despite all the letter writing and social media outrage, Dr. Hughey doubts sororities will update their statements and take a stronger stance for abortion rights, because “there's no political teeth behind” the outrage. The only way he believes headquarters will listen is if sisters end their membership thus bringing their organizations to their fiscal knees.
Sorority recruitment has begun for another school year, and as swaths of prospective members start to learn more about the organizations they hope to join, many will turn to social media. They will see outrage from current sisters and alumni in comment sections. But some organizers are pushing to take the fight off of social media, and to look beyond changing their sororities.
“Putting a spicy comment on your [sorority organization’s] Instagram page isn't going to do it,” says Gilbert Wallace, the former Delta Gamma international vice president of communications who is organizing sorority members for action. She doesn’t encourage directing anger toward sororities so much as toward lawmakers, and using the sorority system’s connections to insight change.
“Our goals right now are to educate ourselves on how to mobilize effectively, gather as many women who want to do that work, teach them how to do that work, and then deploy them state by state, district by district to do this work,” she says."
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Finally; a current sitting SCOTUS that follows the US Constitution by affirming the Federal Government (to wit: Justice Warren Burger's '72 Supreme Court) has no ability to insert itself into the State's business without those powers being directly appointed to the Feds by the Constitution. Now witness the Constitution working exactly as proscribed, by Justice Robert's Court now in 2022!
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