Restore Roe, or Go Beyond It? The Question Is Fracturing the Abortion Rights Movement

“We have an opportunity here to build something better, and we’re not even talking about it.”

“Right now, every single state is dealing with a pro-abortion, riled-up base that wants a Kansas,” Merritt says, referring to the special election about abortion last year that drew greater turnout than any primary in the state’s history. “There’s pressure.”

#abortionrights #womensrights

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/roe-v-wade-abortion-rights-amendment-missouri-pro-choice-ohio-arizona-planned-parenthood-viability-limits/

"The survey covers four broad areas: periods and menopause; preventing and planning pregnancy; pregnancy experiences; and reproductive health conditions, such as endometriosis and polycystic ovary syndrome. The survey is for women and people described as female at birth, aged between 16 and 55, who live in England."

#nhs #womenshealth #afabhealth #lgbtqhealth #reproductivehealth #ukhealth #abortionuk #abortionishealthcare #ukfeminism #englandhealth #abortionrights

https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/expert-opinion/its-high-time-we-end-taboo-and-make-womens-health-priority

The sweeping #redstate drive to roll back #CivilRights & #liberties

by Ron Brownstein

Since 2021, #Republican-controlled states have passed a swarm of #laws to restrict #VotingRights, increase penalties for #public #protest, impose new restrictions on #transgender youth, #BanBooks, & limit what #teachers, #college #professors, & #employers can say about #race, #gender, & #SexualOrientation.

#AbortionRights
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/09/supreme-court-republican-civil-rights/675265/

Live in Arizona or close enough to help out on the ground? Here’s an organization on the move you can volunteer with to collect signatures in order to get reproductive rights on the ballot in #Arizona. All who want access should have access.

Arizona for Abortion Access-
https://arizonaforabortionaccess.org/

Support the cause but can’t volunteer? If you’re able, you can donate.
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/arizona-for-abortion-access-1

#AbortionRights #ReproductiveRights

White Men Have Controlled Women’s Reproductive Rights

Throughout US History. The Post-Dobbs Era Is No Different
This is not the first period in U.S. history when white men have exercised control over women’s right to bear – or not bear – children, including during slavery.

......the argument that not enough white people are being born has been a common historical thread in the American anti-abortion movement.

#abortionrights #womensrights #racism

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/white-men-have-controlled-womens-reproductive-rights-throughout-us-history-the-post-dobbs-era-is-no-different

#abortionrights #womensrights The GOP approach: change the name of a highly unpopular agenda hoping people are too stupid to see what they did. The Democrat approach: Listen to people and design policy that actually accomplishes something. This is why they can only win elections when they restrict access to the ballot box. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/09/republican-prolife-reband-meeting-satire/

"#Life begins at #conception" is a meaningless and intentionally-deceptive declaration that's meant to obfuscate the fact that #personhood begins at #birth. The #law explicitly does not provide for #legal personhood tied to ambiguous and differing opinions about when life begins. But this is the sort of #dishonesty that is the foundation of the forced-birth movement.

#abortionRights

https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/09/ramaswamy-declares-life-begins-conception-previously-pointing-six-week-mark/

Texas cities and counties are passing new laws to criminalize driving through them to get to an abortion provider.

And no, this is NOT a fake.
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De nombreuses villes et comtés du Texas sont en train de mettre en places des lois criminalisant le simple fait pour
les femmes de les traverser par la route pour se rendre dans un état où elles pourront légalement procéder à un avortement.

#Abortionrights #Texas

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/9/7/headlines/texas_finds_new_ways_to_criminalize_abortion_targeting_people_who_travel_for_the_procedure

“A Mexican Supreme Court decision to end the federal ban on abortion extended a regional trend of increasing access to the procedure…

That will mean access for millions of Mexicans…” #AbortionRights
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-abortion-decriminalize-supreme-court-82cd9798abe91106fda1e7afddf91c34

People forget that a significant proportion of known pregnancies (10-20%) end in miscarriage (and much higher for older mothers and those with previous miscarriages). It’s simply not true that every abortion, if prevented, leads to a baby. Sure, abortion ends the potential for a life, but we all know that. It’s a potential life, not (yet) a person. #abortion #pregnancy #abortionrights

States geographically near ones that banned abortion after Roe v. Wade was overturned saw sharp increases in the number of procedures performed.

Axios reports on a new study: https://flip.it/Rb1jel

#Abortion #AbortionRights #USPolitics #Politics

Enslaved women forced to reproduce

"African midwives, imported and enslaved as early as the 1600s, attended to the birthing needs of the enslaved and enslavers until the beginning of the 19th century.

But, after 1808, enslavers in the United States could no longer legally import enslaved people.

With this shift, enslavers stepped up the forced breeding of enslaved women. White men raped the Black women and girls they enslaved, and then enslaved the children born from those rapes.
White men also forced the Black women and Black men they enslaved to have sex with one another to generate more babies, who would be born into slavery.

This was a systemic way of ensuring enslaved women bore more children, which would increase profits for their enslavers.

Because the Black midwives and enslaved women often were blamed for or suspected of using birth control and abortions to resist forced pregnancy and the enslavement of their offspring, enslavers turned increasingly away from midwives and to white male doctors to figure out why nearly half of enslaved infants were stillborn or died within their first year of life and why so many enslaved women were infertile..."

#womensrights #abortionrights #blackmastodon #avortement #histodons

https://theconversation.com/white-men-have-controlled-womens-reproductive-rights-throughout-american-history-the-post-dobbs-era-is-no-different-206706

"This is not the first period in U.S. history when white men have exercised control over women’s right to bear – or not bear – children, including during slavery. Then, it was a matter of numbers...White men controlled people’s reproductive rights during the 20th century, too, with the American eugenics movement."

#histodons #womensrights #abortionrights #blackmastodon @blackmastodon

https://theconversation.com/white-men-have-controlled-womens-reproductive-rights-throughout-american-history-the-post-dobbs-era-is-no-different-206706

Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled to federally decriminalize abortion on Wednesday, finding that the current ban on the procedure is unconstitutional.
#women #abortion #abortionrights #healthcare #mexico #scotus #WomensRights

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/09/06/americas/mexico-supreme-court-abortion-decriminalized/index.html

#Mexico's #SupremeCourt upholds #AbortionRights #nationwide, paving way for #federal #access

#MexicoSupremeCourt on Wednesday struck down a federal #law #criminalizing #abortion, reaffirming an earlier ruling that #criminal penalties for abortion were #unconstitutional & allowing the federal #healthcare system to provide services.

(#SCOTUS has some explaining to do)
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexicos-supreme-court-upholds-abortion-rights-nationwide-paving-way-federal-2023-09-06/

The truth is in the beans. People favor proactive public investment (Commentary) https://minnesotareformer.com/2023/09/06/dfl-voters-reject-tax-cuts-and-neoliberalism-at-the-state-fair/ #democrats #minnesota #abortionrights

In a rare joint op-ed, the secretaries of the #Navy, #AirForce & #Army call on Sen. #Tuberville to stop blocking #military promotions

Tuberville: Stop this dangerous hold on senior officers

#USN #USA #USAF #RightWing #Extremism #AbuseOfPower #Minoritarianism #AbortionRights #NationalSecurity
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/04/army-navy-air-force-secretaries-tuberville-military-hold/

Mexico’s high court overturns state’s abortion ban.

https://www.ncronline.org/news/mexicos-high-court-overturns-states-abortion-ban

#abortionrights

Bueller?? McConnell?? Tuberville??

“Marines’ top general ‘ruthlessly’ rides out Tuberville’s military hold”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/09/04/tommy-tuberville-military-promotions-eric-smith/

#nationalsecurity #usmilitary #senatormitchmcconnell #tuberville #army #navy #airforce #marines #coastguard #abortionrights

What the Contradiction of Slavery Tells Us About Abortion Rights

“My life would not have been my own. I would be a prisoner subject to a body’s whims — and not my body’s whims, but the whims of a teenage boy.”

As Abraham Lincoln would eventually conclude, “A house divided against itself cannot stand. I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.”

#slavery #abortionrights

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/02/opinion/slavery-abortion-rights-laws.html