#We Wont Go Back: The Anniversary of Roe v. Wade
I've enjoyed the right to abortion my entire life. I NEVER thought I'd be fighting this fight for my daughter now.... and for myself too! Let's get LOUD today, on the anniversary of ROE V. WADE and make it clear that we are the majority, we vote and we are mad hell and we aren't going to take it anymore!
Use the following hashtags and get loud today! #reclaimroe, #7in10forRoe #WeWontGoBack, #Roe43
Here are some great facts from ALL ABOVE ALL (ALLABOVEALL.ORG):
1. 43 years ago this week, the Supreme Court made a promise with the historic decision in Roe v Wade...That each of us has a fundamental right to a safe, legal abortion. It was a goodie.
2. ...and just 3 years later a politician found a way to crap all over it.
Just 3 years after Roe v. Wade was decided, the Hyde Amendment was introduced, denying abortion coverage for those enrolled in Medicaid. Basically saying that abortion rights exist…. if you’ve got the cash.
3. Fast forward a few decades, and things are getting even worse. In the last 5 years, 288 new laws have been quietly passed making abortion harder to get. 288! These laws require women to make multiple, medically unnecessary appointments, force trusted community clinics to shut down, and ban insurance plans from covering abortion care, to name a few.
4. No one should be shamed, pressured, or lied to about their health care.
It’s bad enough that some politicians lie about abortion. Now, in some states, they are forcing doctors to do their dirty work for them by making providers to lie to their patients, using scripts written by politicians.
5. The doctors, nurses, and staff of abortion clinics are an important part of our communities. Abortion providers are there when we need safe, high quality, and non-judgmental care. Unfortunately, some politicians want to shut clinics down: today, Mississippi has only one clinic left and in Texas more than half the clinics have closed.
6. The Supreme Court is about to rule on another abortion case - and the impact could be HUGE. In March, SCOTUS will hear Whole Woman’s Health v. Cole, a case challenging Texas’ clinic shutdown law. If this law is allowed to stand, other states will no doubt follow Texas’ bad example – possibly leaving us in some kind of “where did all the abortion clinics go” post-apocalyptic hellscape. We wish we were joking.
7. All those laws making abortion more costly and less available? They hurt young people, immigrants, women of color, low income folks, and transgender men and gender nonconforming people the most. NOT COOL.
Thankfully, those same people are UNITING to protect reproductive justice for all. So yeah, we’re not gonna let that shit slide.
And the final reason It’s About Damn Time to #ReclaimRoe?
8. Because we get to determine our own future. This is our movement, our moment, and our chance to be BRAVE and BOLD. Who’s in?
Reclaiming Roe for Women at Home and Abroad: Time to End Hyde and Helms
Forty-three years ago the U.S. Supreme Court decided that the right to privacy extended to a woman's decision to have an abortion. In Roe v. Wade, the court upheld a woman's right to choose. However, that right was swiftly undercut by the Hyde and Helms amendments. While the Hyde amendment limits U.S. funding for abortion for most low-income women in the U.S., Helms restricts U.S. overseas funding from supporting safe access to abortion for the poorest women and girls globally." -Serra Sippel
VIDEO: Abortion Stigma Is Ruining Good Abortion Journalism:
"Abortion stigma -- the "shared understanding" that abortion is morally wrong or socially unacceptable-- shows up in all facets of popular culture. But it's especially dangerous when it taints news coverage of abortion stories." via Media Matters Watch Here:
On Roe anniversary, let’s remember the US women for whom abortion is a right on paper only: “ But forgotten in this debate is that, for many women in the United States, safe and legal abortion has long been out of reach. Since 1976, the Hyde Amendment has severely restricted abortion coverage for low-income women enrolled in Medicaid, making real reproductive choice a privilege of those who can afford it—rather than a fundamental right.
To counter the harmful impact of this long-standing policy, supporters of abortion rights in Congress have coalesced behind a bill that would lift the Hyde Amendment. The Equal Access to Abortion Coverage in Health Insurance (EACH Woman) Act would restore Medicaid abortion coverage so that our country’s poorest women no longer face a financial barrier to safe and legal abortion care." - By Heather D. Boonstra
Watch 7 Actresses Perform Powerful Abortion Stories: Ahead of the 43rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade this Friday, the Center for Reproductive Rights unveiled a new PSA on abortion access, with real abortion stories performed for the first time by seven actresses. In the videos, Elizabeth Banks, Dascha Polanco, Bellamy Young, Amy Brenneman, Mercedes Mason, Mary McCormack, and Retta give voice to the struggles and triumphs of the American women who submitted their stories.
An Oldie But Goodie: Why the Pro-Choice Movement Needs to Talk About Children
"The majority of women who have abortions are mothers. Millions of women and men have been able to plan their families through access to contraception. There are hundreds of thousands of women like myself, whose own experiences with pregnancy and parenting have made them more pro-choice than they were before they had children. Our stories and experiences stand as a visceral rebuttal to the anti-choice movement’s desired narrative, which is that every pregnancy should be continued and no one should have a choice after a certain, arbitrary point in gestation." - Sarah Erdreich
