Abortion Rights
The Patriarchal Mandate is Written in Blood
The abominable regularity of femicide. Expropriation of sexual autonomy and commodification of women. Feminization of poverty and job insecurity. The right to a life free of violence.
Andrea D'Atri
February 3, 2016Thousands Protest Against the Right Wing and for the Right to Choose!
On Wednesday, October 29, over 3,000 people gathered in the streets of Rio de Janeiro to protest PL 5069, a law that further criminalizes abortion in Brazil. There, protesters denounced the conservative right wing and called for women's right to abortion.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
November 5, 2015Sixty-Five Thousand Strong at National Women’s Meeting
On October 10-12, the 30th annual National Women's Meeting (Encuentro Nacional de Mujeres) took place in the coastal city of Mar del Plata, Argentina. There, the Left and the Workers’ Front (FIT) joined Pan y Rosas, a national women's organization advanced by the PTS with sister organizations in Uruguay, Mexico, Brazil and Spain.
Gloria Grinberg
October 23, 2015Thousands protest in Berlin for the right to choose
Last Saturday, the reactionary "March for Life" took place in Berlin. At the same time, several thousand counter-protesters took to the streets calling for an unrestricted right to abortion and for sexual self-determination.
Oskar Huber
September 24, 2015Holy Hypocrisy
The Pope announced that the Catholic Church will 'forgive' those women who have had abortions - a grave sin in Catholic dogma - if they show themselves truly 'wholeheartedly repentant'. The news has made world headlines but does little to alter the fundamentally reactionary and mysoginist stance of the Church.
Left Voice
September 16, 2015