#abortion
To Fight a Stacked Federal Bench, the ACLU Goes to the States
#civilliberties #stateabortionlegislation #reproductivefreedom #thefreedomtomarry #gerrymandering #juvenilejustice #transgenderrights #freeexpressionandcensorship #capitalpunishment #abortion #lgbtqrelationships #lgbtqrights #votingrights #lgbtqyouth #usa #civilrights #aclu
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The Women who Paid with their Lives
https://lithub.com/telling-the-devastating-stories-of-pre-abortion-ireland/
The Russian aggression undermines the achievements of Ukrainian feminists in the struggle against political and social #oppression. In the occupied territories, the Russian #army uses mass rape and other forms of gender-based #violence as a #military strategy. The establishment of the Russian regime in these territories poses the threat of criminalizing #LGBTIQ+ people and decriminalizing domestic violence. Throughout #Ukraine, the problem of domestic violence is becoming more acute. Vast destruction of civilian infrastructure, threats to the #environmental, #inflation, shortages, and population displacement endanger social reproduction. The #war intensifies gendered division of #labor, further shifting the #work of social #reproduction – in especially difficult and precarious conditions – onto #women. Rising #unemployment and the neoliberal government’s attack on labor rights continue to exacerbate social problems. Fleeing from the war, many women* are forced to leave the country, and find themselves in a vulnerable position due to barriers to housing, social infrastructure, stable income, and medical services (including contraception and #abortion). They are also at risk of getting trapped into #sextrafficking.
https://commons.com.ua/en/right-resist-feminist-manifesto/ #austerity #imperialism #feminism
#Florida Gov. Ron #DeSantis (R) suspended Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren on Thursday for “neglect of duty” after the prosecutor refused to enforce bans on #abortion and #transgender #surgery.
‘Have you recently had an #abortion?’ Australian transiting through US questioned then deported
An Australian woman who planned to house-sit in #Canada during a #holiday has said she was detained, fingerprinted, interrogated about her abortion #history and quickly deported during a stopover in the US.
#usa #border #travel #fail #question #women #humanrights #news
While the right has diligently chipped away at women’s rights, the left’s response has been to offer nothing but blackmail. Stick with us, because the other guys are even worse. Sure, it feels undignified to call yourself a ‘menstruator’ or a ‘uterus bearer’, but that’s the cost of admission to the big liberal tent. If you don’t want to be reduced to your reproductive system, better start by reducing yourself to your reproductive system.
What a joke. The right won their war on #Roe because they took #abortion seriously. The #left lost because they treated it as a triviality, a done deal, something they could threaten women with (imagine if you lost this!) but never had to actively defend.
#Feminism ascended to the status of #fashion accessory — a background for Beyonce, a Teen Vogue vertical — without having accomplished all that much in the #US. It’s worth remembering that American women have no national statutory maternity leave. (Still, nearly half of Democrat men under 50 and quarter of #women believe that ‘feminism has done more harm than good’).
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-the-right-won-the-war-on-roe #society #scotus #democrats #aoc
In light or recent events, I want a Gadsden flag of this. #scotus #abortion #usa #liberty #libertarian
Source - http://www.illustrationsbyanniee.com/#/graphic-design/
Texts and Web Searches Have Been Used to Prosecute Women for Abortions
Privacy advocates warn internet activity could someday be used to prosecute women who sought abortions. But it's already happened, reports the Washington Post.
#nothingtohide #abortion #privacy #prison #punishment #texts #websearch #signal #VPN
On this episode of the It’s Going Down #podcast, we talk with both long-time anarchist organizer Suzy Subways and historian Spencer Beswick about how anarchists in the 1990s organized in the face of a deadly #far-Right attack on abortion access across the so-called United States.
With the growth of both the above ground organization Operation Rescue, which mobilized thousands to shut down #abortion clinics and the underground anti-abortion movement which targeted doctors and reproductive #health offices with firebombings and assassinations, abortion access was under threat like never before. But while #liberals stuck to legalistic attempts to sway the courts, anarchists, utilizing strategies and tactics from groups like Anti-Racist Action, brought a fresh perspective to the struggle and began to mobilize and build coalitions.
During our discussion we cover this #history as well as what led to the passing of #Roe v Wade; as Beswick argues that it was the creation of a mass, militant movement that centered bodily #autonomy and freedom that forced the #State to codify limited abortion rights into law. As the supreme court is poised to rule on striking down Roe v Wade, this history, and the lessons a nd questions that it raises, is needed now more than ever.
https://itsgoingdown.org/clinic-defense-1990s-abortion/ #usa #anarchism #scotus #antira
‘It felt like history itself’ – 48 protest photographs that changed the world
The Guardian
Protest can change everything. Which is why governments around the world want to suppress it. In a week when thousands in the US expressed their fury over Roe v Wade, we look back at some of the images that helped rewrite laws and change the way we think.
Governments tend to define democracy as narrowly as possible. The story they tell goes as follows: you vote; the majority party takes office; you leave it to govern on your behalf for the next four or five years. (...)
We have seen what happens if we leave politics to governments. Fairly elected or not, they will, without effective public pressure, abuse their power. (...)
Trust in governments destroys democracy, which survives only through constant challenge. It requires endless disruption of the cosy relationship between our representatives and powerful forces: the billionaire press, plutocrats, political donors, friends in high places. What challenge and disruption mean, above all, is protest. (...)
A government that cannot tolerate protest is a government that cannot tolerate democracy.
Such governments are becoming a global norm. In the UK, two policing bills in quick succession seek to shut down all effective forms of protest. (...)
In the US, state legislatures have been undermining the federal right to protest, empowering the police to use catch-all offences such as “trespass” or “disrupting the peace” to break up demonstrations and make arrests. (...) In Russia, a new law against “discrediting the armed forces” has been used to prosecute dissenters engaging in actions as mild as writing “no to war” in the snow. Similar draconian laws are being imposed by governments in many other nations.
Why do governments want to ban protest? Because it’s effective. Why do they want us to accept their narrow vision of democracy? Because it makes our power ineffective. (...)
The extraordinary people in these images understand this – from suffragettes picketing the White House in 1917 to Patsy Stevenson being manhandled by police at last year’s Sarah Everard vigil; from relatives of those killed at Amritsar in India in 1919 to those taking to the streets after George Floyd’s murder in the US.
Almost everything of importance is disintegrating fast: ecosystems, the health system, standards in public life, equality, human rights, terms of employment. (...) Business as usual is a threat to life on Earth. Disrupting it is the greatest civic duty of all. (...)
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