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In this op-ed, writer Stefanie Iris Weiss explains why Alyssa Milano’s call for a sex strike is misguided.

It’s been an extremely chilling and challenging week for women, to put it mildly. The immoral, regressive, misogynist policies of fanatical anti-abortion men have reached a kind of apotheosis in several states, including Georgia and Alabama. The obscene abortion bans adopted there are similar to those adopted by Republican-controlled legislatures in Mississippi, Kentucky, Ohio, Iowa, and North Dakota. But Alyssa Milano’s call for a sex strike, Lysistrata-style, is not the fix we need — not even close.

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