Abortion Rights

UPS Teamsters Take Up the Fight for Abortion Rights
The Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling is ushering in a historic attack on women, people who could give birth and the broader working class. But Teamsters are speaking out for reproductive rights and demanding our union take up this vital issue.
Thaddeus Greene
August 17, 2022NYPD Violently Arrest 5 Abortion Rights Activists at a Clinic Defense
On Saturday, five people were violently arrested protecting abortion access in NYC, while NYPD protected anti-choicers attempting to harass patients.
Molly Rosenzweig
August 6, 2022In a Backlash Against Dobbs, Kansas Votes Overwhelmingly to Protect Abortion
Kansans have overwhelmingly voted to protect abortion rights in their state. This is a huge rejection of the anti-democratic Dobbs decision by the tyrannical Supreme Court.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
August 2, 2022Michigan Court of Appeals Gives County Prosecutors Right to Enforce Abortion Ban
Today a Michigan Court ruled that prosecutors in counties across the state have the authority to enforce a 1931 law that prohibits almost all forms of abortion.
Tristan Taylor
August 1, 2022‘Labor Rights are Reproductive Rights’: Interview with Guttmacher Institute’s Fired Organizer
Left Voice interviewed Sam Heyne, a union organizer recently fired from the Guttmacher Institute. Only a few weeks after the Dobbs decision, workers at one of the most important research nonprofits for reproductive rights successfully voted to unionize. An hour later, Heyne was fired in a blatant attack against the union.
Left Voice
July 19, 2022How We Won Abortion Rights
Abortion rights were recently won in Argentina, Mexico, and Chile. Socialist feminists organized in Pan y Rosas explain how they did it.
Left Voice
July 17, 2022Immigrants’ Rights Are Reproductive Rights — Fight Bans and Borders
After the largest mass death of immigrants in modern US history, it is important to see the connections between the struggle for reproductive rights and the struggle for abortion rights.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
July 14, 2022Guttmacher Union Wins, But Union Leader is Fired Within Hours of Victory
On July 7, 97% of Guttmacher employees voted in favor of unionizing. Within hours, a worker and key organizer of the union effort was fired. The fight for labor rights is linked to the fight for abortion rights, especially following the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
K.S. Mehta
July 13, 2022No, Biden Still Isn’t Doing Anything to Protect Abortion
President Biden’s executive order on abortion won’t do anything to protect abortion rights — we need a mass movement.
Otto Fors
July 10, 2022The Democrats on Abortion Rights, In Their Own Words
The Democrats have alternated for 50 years between promising to support, and then publicly abandoning, the freedom to choose an abortion based on their own professional self-interests and their job as managers of an extremely unequal capitalist society.
Daniel Werst
July 7, 2022