Jewish American actress Bette Midler took to Twitter Friday to protest Texas's controversial abortion laws and proposed a method women can take to fight this: Having all women refuse to have sex with men.
"I suggest that all women refuse to have sex with men until they are guaranteed the right to choose by Congress," Midler tweeted.
I suggest that all women refuse to have sex with men until they are guaranteed the right to choose by Congress.
— bettemidler (@BetteMidler) September 3, 2021
The tweet is one of several Midler has made recently targeting the Republican Party over the new Texas abortion law, which the US Supreme Court refused to strike down.
"The cruelty of the GOP is endless," she tweeted earlier. "We are suffering COVID-19, hurricanes, apocalyptic flooding, wildfires from hell, joblessness, homelessness, evictions, racial strife, and they pick this hideous time to pile on yet another shock to women, by taking away their right to choose."
The cruelty of the #GOP is endless. We are suffering COVID-19, hurricanes, apocalyptic flooding, wildfires from hell, joblessness, homelessness, evictions, racial strife, and they pick this hideous time to pile on yet another shock to women, by taking away their right to choose.
— bettemidler (@BetteMidler) September 2, 2021
The Texas law has made abortions illegal from six weeks after conception - which is often well before many women even know they are pregnant. The law has made no exceptions for cases of incest and rape either.
Even more notably, the law allows people to sue abortion providers and private citizens who might in any way help a woman get an abortion, and will be entitled to $10,000-plus attorneys' fees if they win the suit.
There has been significant backlash at this law, which many have claimed is another excuse to control women and impair their access to health care, as well as essentially putting the onus of the pregnancy entirely on the one pregnant.
Though the Supreme Court refused to strike it down, US President Joe Biden slammed the law as "an unprecedented assault on a woman's constitutional rights."
Biden said while the ruling was not the final word on what he called an "extreme" state law, he was directing the federal government to see how it could "ensure that women in Texas have access to safe and legal abortions... and what legal tools we have to insulate women and providers from the impact of Texas’ bizarre scheme of outsourced enforcement to private parties."
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that the House will consider the Women's health protection act in wake of the Supreme Court action on the Texas abortion law.
Reuters contributed to this report.