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This is an edited version of the speech I gave on December 1st, at the Lansing rally in the Rotunda of the State Capitol. It was held at the same time as the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the Mississippi anti-abortion law. Three dozen activists later went to the chambers of the (...)
On October 2, over two hundred thousand people, majority women, marched to defend abortion rights in over 600 towns and cities across the United States.
The largest were tens of thousands marching on the Supreme Court in Washington D.C. and in the Texas state capital of Austin.
In Houston and (...)
In 650 cities and towns across the United States tens of thousands of women rallied and marched for women’s reproductive rights on Saturday, October 2.
This fifth annual women’s march since 2017 took place in reaction to the state of Texas passing a law recently that bans virtually all abortions (...)
Thanks to Texas’ recent abortion ban, the nationwide attack on abortion is now receiving more attention than it has since the swath of attempted bans in the spring of 2019. But the movement is still small, fractured, and hamstrung by politics that have pulled many to the right and out of the (...)
A Texas law that bans 90% of abortions was upheld by the United States Supreme Court in a late-night ruling on September 1.
The five to four decision upholding the most restrictive anti-abortion law in the country was made without actually reviewing it.
The court did this under a procedure (...)
Women in Texas and around the country were horrified and outraged to learn that the U.S. Supreme Court, meeting in the dead of night on September 1, voted 5 to 4 to uphold a new Texas law that would outlaw abortion for nearly all women.
The law bans abortions after a heart beat can be heard, (...)
Millions in aid intended to go to the neediest families is being used to finance clinics trying to dissuade women from having abortions.
At least 10 US states have siphoned millions of dollars from federal block grants, meant to provide aid to their neediest families, to pay for the operations (...)
According to their own survey responses, anti-abortion voters are hostile to gender equality in practically every aspect
According to self-identified “pro-life” advocates, the fundamental divide between those who want to outlaw abortion and those who want to keep it legal comes down to one (...)
Women’s March on Washington, January 2017
“If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.” — Florynce Kennedy
The evangelical right believes it has the votes in the U.S. Supreme Court to enable state legislatures to outlaw abortion and no longer needs to settle for simply setting up (...)
Pro-choice groups see an increase in donations and are mobilizing supporters and resources in several states to combat the laws
As strict anti-abortion laws spread across the US, pro-choice Americans are organizing on multiple fronts to protect women’s access to abortions: from local women’s (...)
The Alabama abortion ban and the spate of draconian “heartbeat” laws are vicious attacks on reproductive rights. We have to fight back with an unequivocal demand: free abortion on demand.
Mothers’ Day came this year with a cruel twist of fate. In recent weeks, Georgia, Ohio, Kentucky, and (...)
It has been a rather horrific couple of weeks for women’s reproductive rights in the US. Convinced that they finally have the means to overturn both Roe vs Wade and Doe vs Bolton (1973) due to numbers on the Supreme Court, several pieces of legislation designed to undermine women’s right to (...)
Janet Porter won a major victory when the strictest law in the US passed in Ohio – the latest step in a fight she is taking global.
Janet Porter is a woman who believes life begins at conception and homosexuality is a choice. She has said gay marriage caused Noah’s floods, and was the architect (...)
Doctors argue that the bans, known as ‘fetal heartbeat’ bills, are medically inaccurate and use misleading language
High-profile gynecologists are criticizing the framing of six-week abortion bans, known as “fetal heartbeat” bills, as medically inaccurate.
The bans, now moving through nearly a (...)
Policy bans aid going to foreign groups that support abortion rights as secretary of state Pompeo says: ‘This is decent and right’
The Trump administration has expanded its ban on funding for groups that conduct abortions or advocate abortion rights, known as the global gag rule, and has also (...)
Even as many mainstream liberals and feminists recently celebrated the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, which solidified the legal right to abortion - for those who can afford it - economic inequality continues to limit abortion access. Being unable to access wanted abortion deepens poverty and (...)
Compromising on abortion rights has the potential to undermine the entire left project.
It’s not often that supporters of reproductive rights get a piece of good news. Though, what can be described as good news these days is part of the bad news.
On July 28, an Alabama magistrate judge ruled (...)
International organisations receiving US funding for health will no longer be able to provide any abortion services or counselling - even with non-US funding.
MEXICO CITY, Jan 25 2017 (IPS) - The image of a group of men in suits making decisions about the rights of women is becoming an (...)
The passage of a law in Ohio is proof that if we want to stop the Trump administration from rolling back abortion rights, we have to get organized, writes Nicole Colson.
AFTER ELECTING a man to the White House who bragged about committing sexual harassment and assault, Republicans are now (...)
Huge legal victory for reproductive rights activists paves way to overturn dozens of measures that curtail access to abortion providers across the country (this article is illustrated by several maps which are not reproduced here).
The US supreme court on Monday struck down one of the harshest (...)
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