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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 (...)
This morning, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ruling that there is no constitutional right to an abortion in the United States. This decision will have profound and wide-reaching impacts: Abortion is expected to become illegal in dozens of states, leaving people who seek to terminate (...)
Millions of women are now less free than men, in the functioning of their own bodies and in the paths of their own lives
The story is not about the supreme court. Today, the sword that has long been hanging over American women’s heads finally fell: the supreme court overturned Roe v Wade, (...)
A Supreme Court scholar untangles the ideas that undergird the historic ruling overturning the Constitutional right to an abortion.
The Supreme Court’s decision to reverse 50 years of constitutional protection for the right to get an abortion is more than 200 pages long. Morgan Marietta, a (...)
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ILWU Statement on the U.S. Supreme Court Overturning Roe v. Wade
June 24, 2022
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We are at a turning point in the struggle to defend abortion rights. The leak of the Supreme Court’s draft ruling threatens to overturn Roe v. Wade. If and when it is enacted, nearly half the states in the US are poised to criminalize abortion. This ruling is an attack on much more than abortion (...)
Tens of thousands marched and rallied on May 14 in defense of abortion rights in some 400 cities and towns across the U.S. in face of the “leaked” draft opinion by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito overturning the Court’s 1973 decision in Roe vs Wade legalizing abortion.
The largest action was (...)
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 (...)
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