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The Fight for Abortion and Reproductive Justice after Roe

Camila Valle, Emily Janakiram, Holly Lewis, Sherry Wolf — 2022-10-16T14:44:46Z

“One of the reasons the Right has been so successful in mobilizing their base around abortion rights is that they've recognized abortion as inherently political and recognized its centrality to the sociopolitical agenda they're trying to actualize. They've recognized that abortion on-demand has the power to weaken the patriarchal, capitalist state. ”

- IV573 - October 2022 / United States (USA), Women, Abortion and reproductive rights

Beyond Roe v. Wade: Struggling for Abortion Access

Emily Janakiram — 2022-05-27T12:04:40Z

“In Ireland, in Argentina, in Poland, and Chile, the abortion struggle has been fought on the streets, through direct action and unapologetic claiming of abortion as an inalienable right – not by electing politicians who will defend “the right to choose.” It is this militant action that we will need in the United States if we want to win.”

- IV568 - May 2022 / United States (USA), Women, Abortion and reproductive rights

Clinic Defense and Abolition

Emily Janakiram — 2020-07-12T07:23:54Z

On Saturday 20 June, at Manhattan's Planned Parenthood clinic in Soho, New York City for Abortion Rights organized a clinic defense against aggressive groups of far-right anti-abortion evangelicals. These well-funded and organized groups, which included At the Well Ministries, Love Life, and Operation Save America (a rebrand of the notorious Operation Rescue of the 1990s) have mobilized across the country, making New York City their next target for enforcing their hateful, reactionary agenda: forced birth, forced gestation, Islamophobic and anti-LGBTQ persecution. Operation Save America was previously headed by Flip Benham, who remains strongly associated with them, and seemed to be the headliner of this action. A misogynist and bigot, Benham has made a career of stalking abortion doctors, destroying Qurans in public, following teenage trans girls into bathrooms, and, as has recently come to light, paying off Norma McCorvey (the “Jane Roe” of Roe V. Wade”) to publically convert to Christianity and “repent” her abortion. His sons, the “Benham Brothers”, who were not at the action, are closely involved with Love Life, an extremely well-funded non-profit organization dedicated to stripping bodily autonomy from all those who can become pregnant. Calling their action “#JesusMatters”, the antis appropriated the language of the Black Lives Matter movement, denouncing abortion as a racist campaign of black genocide and comparing their actions to the nationwide protests against racist police brutality.

- IV546 - July 2020 / United States (USA), Women, Anti-racism and Islamophobia