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Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, women’s rights to abortion and, more broadly, to safe reproductive health care have been under attack. In response, women have organized at the grassroots to build local and state-wide coalitions to resist and defend their reproductive rights. Women’s resistance (…)
The Arizona State Supreme Court has banned all abortions, except in cases where it is necessary to save a woman’s life. To do this, the Court dusted off and reinstated an old law passed in 1864 that is still on the books, even though it hasn’t been enforced for over a century.
At the time, (…)
The American presidential election may depend on two social issues and movements. The Republicans’ continued attacks on women’s right to abortions, most recently in Arizona, will drive more voters to support incumbent Joe Biden in the coming presidential election. Though Biden’s continued (…)
Having succeeded two years ago in overturning Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that previously provided federal protection for abortion rights, and then having passed abortion restrictions in several states that have virtually eliminated abortion, the right is now advocating that birth (…)
The Alabama state Supreme Court ruled last week that frozen embryos are people and that it is illegal to destroy them, creating an initial panic and confusion among health professionals who provide and women who use in vitro fertilization (IVF). The decision does not outlaw IVF but requires that (…)
In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled in a case known as Roe vs Wade affirmed for the first time that a woman’s right to abortion was constitutional.
What won this right was not legal arguments, but a mass women’s liberation movement that developed in the context of the broader mass radicalization (…)
Abortion is the center of American politics and likely to remain a principal issue through the 2024 election. Republicans have made the virtual elimination of abortion rights the leading edge of their political campaigns, their legislative agenda, and their judicial battles.
Every Republican (…)
TWENTIETH-CENTURY PRE-ROE America was a scary world for women. Pregnancy and childbirth were destiny. When I was in college in the late 1950s a sociology professor remarked that a woman wasn’t fully a woman until she became a mother.
Historically, what made U.S. reproductive health care (…)
Review of Abolition. Feminism. Now. By Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie Haymarket Books, 2022, 250 pages, $16.95 paper.
N ABOLITION. FEMINISM. Now. Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie make a compelling case for a feminism that is (…)
Protestors on both sides of the abortion issue filled streets of major American cities in January as the anti-abortion movement held its annual March for Life demonstrations in Washington, D.C. and other cities, and the Women’s March, that began with Donald Trump’s inauguration in January 2017, (…)
Review of Inside the Second Wave of Feminism Boston Female Liberation, 1968-1972 An Account by Participants by Nancy Rosenstock Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2022, 202 pages, hardback and paper.
INSIDE THE SECOND Wave of Feminism is a small volume packed with big ideas and activities shared by a (…)
Abortion referendums in such states as California and Kentucky provide a way to protect abortion rights at the state level – but voting limitations could undermine the power of the ballot box.
The abortion landscape in the U.S. has been upended over the past five months, as many clinics (…)
PATRIARCHAL POLITICIANS AND rulers pass judgment on women and those who defy sexual stereotypes, imposing laws to empower “morality police” the world over — Iran, Afghanistan, India and Saudi Arabia; Poland, El Salvador and the USA.
Women’s struggles for bodily autonomy, reproductive freedom (…)
“While the reversal of Roe has been a major setback for the reproductive justice movement in the Valley, the fight for liberation is far from over. The community’s outpouring of support for La Frontera Fund and South Texans for Reproductive Justice’s efforts shows otherwise.”
Rosie Jiménez (…)
For many who must travel to get an abortion, the financial burden of the trip can be overwhelming.
Abortion travel isn’t new. People have been crossing national and state borders to get abortion care since the 1960s, when air travel became more common and affordable.
The number of people who (…)
I GREW UP as the effect of a near-total abortion ban. In the 1970s, Communist Romania under Nicolae Ceausescu briefly experienced a bumper crop of children like me, who came about because, starting in 1967, women could have legal abortions only after raising five children into adulthood.
Most (…)
The full implications of the overthrow of Roe vs Wade are just beginning to be understood.
A long article in the New York Times explained how it has upended women’s lives who have lived with the right to abortion, especially for those who grew up in the last 50 years after Roe was enacted. (…)
Many people do not realize they are delivering at a Catholic hospital, and others may not have a choice. But where one receives care has a profound impact on the birth control options they’re offered.
Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has eliminated the constitutional right to an abortion, (…)
The decision by the extreme right wing of the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision by the Court recognizing a woman’s right to abortion, is a direct attack on a woman’s right to control her own body.
Without that right women cannot ever achieve equality with men.
“Forced (…)
JUNE 24 — THE OFFICIAL overturn of Roe v. Wade was announced as this issue of ATC goes to press. It didn’t require a white-nationalist riot, invading the Capitol at the instigation of Donald Trump, to tear huge holes in long-established constitutional rights in the United States. Where that (…)
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