Abortion Rights
Immigrants’ 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 Nath
July 7, 2022‘ICE is an Enemy of Reproductive Rights’: Speech by an Abortion Provider
An abortion nurse in New York City explains why ICE and anti-immigrant policies make it hard for immigrants to access abortions.
Angelique Miste Saavedra
July 5, 2022The Fight for Abortion Under Puerto Rico’s Colonial Regime
Decisions over reproductive, LGBTQ+, and other human rights are under attack by the fundamentalist right wing in Puerto Rico. On top of that, the Fiscal Control Board increases austerity measures in health services, deepening inequity and the inaccessibility of essential rights and services.
Raura Doreste
July 5, 2022Urgent Call to Action: Our Unions Must Defend the Right to Abortion
The Rank-and-File Caucus of the Temple Association of University Professionals issued a statement against the Supreme Court's attack on abortion and for the need for unions to mobilize to protect the right to an abortion in the streets and in our workplaces.
RAFT Temple
June 30, 2022Feminists and Socialists across the World Mobilize in Solidarity with the Fight for Abortion Rights in the U.S.
Feminist and socialist organizations in France and Argentina staged protests over the weekend in solidarity with demonstrations in the United States against the overturn of Roe v. Wade and the attacks on bodily autonomy by the Right.
Left Voice
June 29, 2022Teachers in NYC Pay Out of Pocket for Abortion. Healthcare Must be Accessible to All
The following is a speech by a public school teacher in NYC against the overturn of Roe v. Wade and in favor of abortion rights for all.
Ali
June 28, 2022Tens of Thousands Take the Streets in Defiance of Overturn of Roe v. Wade
Following the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, tens of thousands of people took to the streets in outrage and to demand that abortion remain legal across the country.
Left Voice
June 27, 2022