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/

Women’s Cricket Is Rife With Stories of Sexual Harassment. What Is the BCCI Doing?

With the kind of wealth available in Indian cricket and the lack of safeguards, there is no estimating what a more accurate number of cricketers facing harassment by their superiors—coaches, selectors, officials—may be. Women cricketers who have left the game are able to draw a clearer picture, but on condition of revealing neither their names nor the states they represented.

https://thewire.in/sport/womens-cricket-is-rife-with-stories-of-sexual-harassment-what-is-the-bcci-doing

#WomensCricket #IndianCricket #BCCI #SexualHarassment #casteism #NarendraShah #POCSO #CasteViolence #caste #WomensRights #ViolenceAgainstWomen #sport #india

@rbreich

The GOP wants to establish religious-based laws in America that restrict a woman’s bodily autonomy – her personal #FREEDOM.

#Republicans don't call it Sharia law, but it is similar to what the Taliban is doing in many ways.

#FreedomOfReligion = Freedom FROM religion

The USA is supposed to be a democracy, NOT a theocracy.

#WomensRights #HumanRights
#WomensRightsAreHumanRights
#GOP #Taliban
#EditorialCartoon #Cartoon

@rbreich

Stripping women of their rights leaves them vulnerable to abuse by men.

In Afghanistan, religious-based laws have made it impossible for a woman to survive on her own....

“The Taliban have created the perfect situation for men seeking revenge [against women]”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/04/afghanistan-taliban-women-marriage-divorce/

Thread of article: https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/109965752069270952

How far will the #GOP go in stripping women of their freedom?

#Afghanistan #Taliban #Religion #Conservatives #Misogyny
#Women #WomensRights #USA #News

🇲🇽LET'S HEAR IT FOR MEXICO!
America fall in line 🇺🇸🙌

#AbortionIsHealthcare #AbortionRightsAreHumanRights #WomenAreUnderAttack #MyBodyMyChoice #WomensRights

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/09/09/mexicos-highest-court-opened-up-abortion-rights/70797288007/

"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."

~ Rodney Coates

#men #race #women #abortion #WomensRights

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

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

@mcnado 160 years after the #CivilWar , the #UnitedStates are divided into #FreeStates and #SlaveStates again. 🤷🏻‍♂️

#BlackLivesMatter #WomensRights #TransRights are ALL #HumanRights.

#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/

#Iran detains Mahsa Amini's uncle as anniversary of her death, protests loom

#MahsaAmini #HumanRights #WomensRights #atheism #atheist #Antitheism #FaceOfIslam #ReligionOfHate

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-detains-mahsa-aminis-uncle-anniversary-her-death-protests-looms-2023-09-06/

Iranian Engineer Who Removed #Hijab During Meeting Sentenced To 74 Lashes

#Iran #HumanRights #WomensRights #atheism #atheist #Antitheism #FaceOfIslam #ReligionOfHate

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202309081763

Brenda Elsey on the Rubiales-Hermoso story:

"This story just won’t go away. And that’s because it’s part of this … it’s part of a huge problem that people have known, that they’ve been working on, and it’s crystalized in this moment. And as much as the Spanish federation wants to say, 'We did not see what we saw,' we saw what we saw."

#Hermoso #Rubiales #Spain #women #WomensRights

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/9/8/spain_womens_soccer_rubiales_hermoso

Think of all the pain and suffering these motherfuckers have caused. #NoRepublicansEver #Abortion #WomensRights #HumanRights #VoteBlue

Desperate Republicans Finally Realize that “Pro-Life” Is a Big Loser https://newrepublic.com/post/175455/republicans-new-term-pro-life-losing-elections

The GOP is involved in a transparent ploy to hoodwink voters into believing that the post-Roe GOP is genuinely in favor of greater access to contraception.

Don’t fall for the GOP’s bait and switch on birth control #GOP #Contraception #Abortion #WomensRights #HumanRights #VoteBlue https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/nikki-haley-abortion-contraception-republicans-rcna103909

@CarolineMalaCorbin

Referring to the US Constitution, but probably applicable to Florida constitution:

“abortion is not mentioned in the Constitution, and is not “deeply rooted” in our “history and tradition.”

True enough. The Constitution has nothing to say about women’s reproductive health
…
the original document does not mention women at all.”
https://theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/supreme-court-roe-handmaids-tale-abortion-margaret-atwood/629833/

#Women #WomensRights #Abortion #USA #Constitution #Politics #Misogyny

"But the social and political reality across much of the nation is that women are being shoved back into the metaphoric kitchen where their choices are being systematically reduced."

#US #Mexico #women #WomensRights #abortion
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar looks at Mexico decriminalizing abortion and concludes,

"While the rest of the world marches forward with progressive social issues, the U.S. stumbles backward."

As he says,

"America gives the impression that it respects and appreciates women by producing TV shows and movies with smart, tough, intelligent women."

Then there's a big "but":

#US #Mexico #women #WomensRights #abortion
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https://kareem.substack.com/p/gop-plot-to-remove-elected-judiciary

#Iraq debates law on death penalty for same-sex relationships

#LGBTQ #HumanRights #WomensRights #atheism #atheist #Antitheism

https://www.dw.com/en/iraqi-parliament-to-debate-death-penalty-for-same-sex-relationships/a-66738619

#Uganda makes first arrest for ‘aggravated #homosexuality,’ a crime punishable by death under new anti- #LGBTQ+ law

#HumanRights #WomensRights #atheism #atheist #Antitheism

https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-09-05/uganda-makes-first-arrest-for-aggravated-homosexuality-a-crime-punishable-by-death-under-new-anti-lgbtq-law.html

#Mexico’s Supreme Court #decriminalizes #abortion

#HumanRights #WomensRights

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