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After the “leak” of a draft ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a 50-year decision legalizing abortion rights for women, the response by women and supporters was quick. Spontaneous protests took place at the Court in Washington, D.C. and around the country.
Many of these were led by (...)
The “leak” of the draft decision by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito to overturn Roe vs Wade, the 1973 Court Decision legalizing women’s right to abortion, signals that the Court’s reactionary wing will probably do so in its final decision.
The May 4 New York Times front page headline read (...)
There is no condition more essential to democratic citizenship than a person’s control over her own body. We can’t call ourselves a free country without it
It’s the worst possible outcome: according to a draft majority opinion published by Politico, the US supreme court has voted to overturn Roe (...)
THE FRONTAL ATTACK on abortion and reproductive freedom in the United States is the cutting edge of the general right-wing assault on democratic rights. And although the Roe v. Wade decision has been in effect for almost half a century, access to medical care has always been limited.
The Roe (...)
“Socialist-feminist abortion policy […] expanded to include child care, jobs that pay a living wage, an end to sterilization abuse, health care, and other necessities that allow women to make an informed and uncoerced decision about whether or not to have a child and raise them.”
The passing of (...)
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 (...)
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