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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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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. (...)
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. (...)
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.
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The Supreme Court’s decision to reverse 50 years of constitutional protection for the right to get an abortion is more than 200 pages (...)
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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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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