Very, very important.

If you think you're a feminist, if you think you're pro-choice, you must read this

This is the most important bit of feminist writing I've ever read. This is practical. This is political. This is personal.

I am not, as you recall, any kind of traditional feminist. I am, however, rabidly pro-choice. In fact, I'm pro-abortion. This woman details, completely, how to perform an abortion.

If Roe is overturned, if women in red states lose legal rights to bodily integrity- this is what will need to be known.

If Roe stays, this piece is still important. It is important to any woman or man who has sex and can imagine a circumstance in which there cannot be a child at the end of a pregnancy. This is abortion. This is what it is. There's nothing else. Dilation. Curretage.

The anti-abortion movement has always held the procedure itself hostage, as an ace in the hole. They feel it's so brutal, so complicated, so inhumane to mother and fetus, that knowledge of the procedure is enough to turn one from pro-abortion to anti-abortion. And, even if women want abortions, keeping the knowledge of what is involved in medical hands (hands with careers and reputations to lose) means that it's not the woman who needs to be persuaded not to have one, it's a doctor that needs to be persuaded not to give one.

I'm not saying women should perform their own abortions (or their friends'). I'm saying that it might be something that becomes necessary, and that if we fear the facts of a procedure we support, for even a minute, we're sad advocates for it.