Tag: abortion

A Lifeline Under Threat: The Attack on Medication Abortion By Mail 

On May 4, the U.S. Supreme Court restored temporary, nationwide access to the abortion pill mifepristone by mail. Amidst escalating threats to abortion access, the order would allow those seeking abortions to obtain the pill without an in-person visit to the doctor.  The restoration comes days after a federal appeals court sided with the State of Louisiana […]

“Pro-life” policy kills

The infant death rate has increased by 7% across the U.S. since the Supreme Court passed the Dobbs decision, which allowed states to restrict abortion access and reproductive care. The same pediatric study found the mortality rate increased by 10% for infants born with health complications. This is just one study in a growing field […]

Speak Out Now National Newsletter: August 19, 2024

Download .pdf leaflet We Cannot Count on Harris and the Democrats The Democratic National Convention (DNC) historically is the time when the party’s presidential candidate would be officially selected. But a virtual roll-call has already been done. So the selection of Harris and Walz at the convention is a formality. Keynote speakers include Biden, the […]

Arizona’s Abortion Ban

On Tuesday, April 9, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that an old law from 1864 banning abortions could be enforced. There are no exceptions for rape or incest. The law that dates back to before Arizona became a state criminalizes medical professionals who provide abortions or abortion drugs. It punishes them with prison sentences of […]

International Women’s Day: Give Us Bread, But Give Us Roses, Too!

March 8th is International Women’s Day. This is a day to commemorate the working women who have struggled and fought to better their conditions. Today in the United States, the attacks on abortion and reproductive rights continue. The Alabama Supreme Court recently ruled that all “unborn children are ‘children’” and that an embryo in a […]

Abortion: Our Bodies – Our Rights – Our Choice!

Since the U.S. Supreme Court decision to remove federal protections for legal access to abortion, abortion access has declined nationwide. Currently, 14 states have complete bans, and eight have strict restrictions – almost half of all states. Some laws being enforced date back to the 1800s, and others criminalize people who travel for care or […]

No Court Can Save Us; Only We Can!

Kate Cox, a 31-year-old mother, is the latest victim of Texas’s near-total abortion ban. After she made multiple emergency room visits and her health worsened, Cox and her attorneys requested she be provided a legal abortion, and won a district court’s approval. Within hours, the Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton warned hospitals against performing the procedure, and […]

Access to Reproductive Rights Depends on Us

The November 7 elections affirmed something we already knew: a solid majority of people in the United States support people’s right to an abortion and the larger right to make their own decisions about their bodies and their healthcare. In the typically “red” states of Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Ohio, voters either voted against the […]

Women Fight Back Against Texas Abortion Ban

Last week, court hearings were held on Zurawski v. Texas, marking the first time patients denied abortions sued a state since the overturn of Roe v. Wade. Fifteen women, along with the Center for Reproductive Rights, filed a lawsuit against Texas after being forced to endure tragic and high-risk pregnancies to term. They are rightfully arguing that the […]

Right-Wing Courts Move to Ban Medication Abortion Nationwide

Last week in Texas, a Trump-appointed judge placed a nationwide ban on the use of the drug mifepristone, which is used in medication abortions. Over half of all abortions in the U.S. use oral medication, rather than a clinical procedure. The drugs used for medication abortions – mifepristone and misoprostol – have been F.D.A.-approved since 2000. […]

Republicans Set Their Sights on Banning Medication Abortions

With Roe v. Wade overturned, abortion is now banned or severely restricted in over 18 states, with more on the way. Now, right-wing efforts to ban abortion medication, are intensifying. Over half of all abortions in the U.S. use oral medication, rather than a medical procedure. The drugs used for medication abortions, mifepristone and misoprostol, […]

Roe at 50: The Anniversary that Wasn’t

January 22 marked the 50th anniversary of the 1973 landmark US Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision, in which the Court ruled that people had the right to choose an abortion. But in June 2022, the Supreme Court ruled to overturn Roe v. Wade, upending five decades of legal precedent. Since then, Republican-controlled state legislatures […]

Abortion in Arizona is Now Illegal. We Must Refuse These Attacks!

On Friday, September 23, a judge lifted a nearly 50 year old injunction that blocked a virtually complete ban on abortions. So getting a safe and legal abortion in Arizona is now impossible, except by breaking the law. Needless to say, this is a scary time to have a uterus, or know someone who does, […]

Online Town Hall: Sunday, September 25 at 4pm pdt (7pm edt)

The Abortion Struggle Today — Our Right and Our Fight This is the video recording of the presentation by Jenny Brown at the Set 25 town hall. Ever since Roe v Wade legalized limited access to abortion in 1973, it has been under attack across the country. The nationwide assault on abortion rights has many […]

Senator Proposes Bill to Ban Abortions After 15 Weeks – We Say No!

On Tuesday, September 13, Senator Lindsey Graham proposed a national bill that would ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The senator appears to be reversing his previous position that states should determine abortion legality. This bill would override the abortion laws in states with less restrictive laws. While it’s unlikely the bill will go […]

Louisiana State Officials Order Death by Flooding for Opposing Abortion Ban

After the Dobbs decision came down from the Supreme Court in June, Louisiana has implemented one of the most restrictive anti-abortion laws in the nation. This ban has no exceptions even for rape or incest. The state recently even prevented a woman who was 10-weeks pregnant with a fetus with no skull (acrania) from aborting, […]

“Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now” — A Book for This Time

Save the Date! Jenny Brown, author of Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now will be speaking at our town hall on Sunday, September 25 at 4:00pm – 5:30 pm (pdt) (7:00pm – 8:30 pm (edt)). She will be discussing her book and the overall attacks on reproductive rights and a strategy for fighting back. Please […]

French Perspective: In the U.S., Supreme Court Fundamentalists vs. Women’s Rights

June 27, 2022, Editorial of the Workplace Newsletters of the Etincelle fraction of the New Anticapitalist Party (NPA), Translated from French. Last Friday, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the 1973 ruling that guaranteed abortion rights across the country. Calling into question women’s right to control their bodies, a right acquired after […]

Clarence Thomas Promises More Right-Wing Attacks Are Coming 

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In voting to overturn Roe vs. Wade, the case that for nearly fifty years guaranteed federal protection for the right to abortion, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas provided a glimpse into future right-wing attacks that are on his agenda. Thomas wrote that the basis upon which Roe was overturned is the same as that which […]

Thousands Protest the Supreme Court Decision to Overturn Roe v. Wade: What’s Next?

With the Supreme Court’s radically conservative decision on Friday to repeal Roe v. Wade, demonstrations erupted all over the U.S. The Supreme Court’s decision poses immediate risks to tens of thousands of women and pregnant people across the country. Already in half the country, many will have no recourse but to carry a pregnancy to […]

Defending Our Rights Depends On Us

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At a time when women around the world are winning the right to access legal abortion, on June 24, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to turn the clock back to the 1970s. Five justices, lifetime permanent political appointees, who are not accountable to us, have decided that there is no federally guaranteed right for women […]

Roe Overturned — Where are We Now?

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Now that Roe has been overturned, abortion is banned or restricted to the point of inaccessibility in more than 20 states, where trigger laws have been put in place. This means people will be forced to give birth against their will, even in cases of rape, incest, and when the life of the pregnant person […]

Restricting Abortion Access is Deadly

As the Supreme Court prepares to reverse Roe v. Wade and end federal abortion rights in the United States, we explore the question: what impact will this have on people’s health? You’d think with developments in modern medicine that pregnancy would be getting safer rather than more dangerous – you’d be wrong. Since 1987, the […]

Is a New Movement for Reproductive Rights Taking Shape?

Roe is overturned, any movement that builds up in the streets can pick up where Roe fell short. We have to begin to organize our own fight to have control not just over our bodies, but also over the kind of world we want to live in.

Our Bodies, Our Lives, Our Choice

A recent draft opinion from the Supreme Court reviewing women’s right to abortion was leaked to the press. The document makes it clear that it is very likely the Court is preparing to reverse the right to abortion that was established by the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. This would remove any federally protected […]

Kentucky and Arizona Pass 15-Week Abortion Ban

In yet another wave of attacks on women’s rights, state officials from Kentucky and Arizona have passed new laws against abortion rights, further weakening Roe v. Wade. These bills do not prosecute women directly, but, as with the Texas law, they allow anyone to sue doctors and abortion providers for assisting in an abortion procedure […]

We Must Fight to Defend Our Right to Choose!

Women and their allies all over the U.S. are out in the streets on October 2 to defend that right. We won this right before and to keep it we will need to fight for it again today!