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| author | Theienzo <theienzo@theanarchistlibrary.org> | 2020-06-01 12:06:33 +0000 |
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diff --git a/l/lw/laura-w-25th-anniversary-of-roe-v-wade.muse b/l/lw/laura-w-25th-anniversary-of-roe-v-wade.muse index f40f0b0..edc65ff 100644 --- a/l/lw/laura-w-25th-anniversary-of-roe-v-wade.muse +++ b/l/lw/laura-w-25th-anniversary-of-roe-v-wade.muse @@ -1,14 +1,14 @@ -#title 25th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade +#title 25<sup>th</sup> Anniversary of Roe v. Wade #author Laura W. #SORTtopics abortion, anarcha-feminism, Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation #date 1997 -#source Nov/Dec 1997 issue of L&R. Retrieved on 2016-06-13 from https://web.archive.org/web/20160613071608/http://loveandrage.org/?q=node/12 +#source Nov/Dec 1997 issue of L&R. Retrieved on 2016-06-13 from [[https://web.archive.org/web/20160613071608/http://loveandrage.org/?q=node/12][web.archive.org]] #lang en #pubdate 2020-06-01T12:05:51 -January 22, 1998 marks the 25th anniversary of legal abortion in the US. A quarter century after women won this basic right on paper, the ability to control our reproductive lives is not a reality for most women. Cutbacks on welfare, lack of child care, dead-end jobs, lack of healthy birth control alternatives, men that won’t use condoms, lack of health insurance, lack of access health services including abortion and prenatal care, harassment and violence at our clinics, in our homes and in the streets are just a few of the obstacles to this critical aspect of women’s freedom. In anticipation of January’s anniversary I look forward to an ongoing dialogue about how to take back this battle, reframe it in terms of women’s lives and health—and win. +January 22, 1998 marks the 25<sup>th</sup> anniversary of legal abortion in the US. A quarter century after women won this basic right on paper, the ability to control our reproductive lives is not a reality for most women. Cutbacks on welfare, lack of child care, dead-end jobs, lack of healthy birth control alternatives, men that won’t use condoms, lack of health insurance, lack of access health services including abortion and prenatal care, harassment and violence at our clinics, in our homes and in the streets are just a few of the obstacles to this critical aspect of women’s freedom. In anticipation of January’s anniversary I look forward to an ongoing dialogue about how to take back this battle, reframe it in terms of women’s lives and health—and win. The media will certainly play this silver anniversary as a significant one. The fact that the majority of folks in the US still support legal abortion has been eclipsed in part by the much publicized conversion of Norma McCorvey. (Jane Roe, of Roe v. Wade, became a born again Christian and Operation Rescue member last year and recanted her pro-choice views as well as her lesbianism.) We can expect two things from the mainstream media on the anniversary of Roe. First, they will most likely take their cue from Operation Rescue and Christian Coalition press releases and use McCorvey’s “switch” as an invitation to question the morality of abortion. And they will legitimize the voices of anti-abortion leadership who have spearheaded violence, harassment and assault of women and doctors around the country as respectable, family-oriented, ‘non-violent’ fetus lovers. @@ -46,9 +46,9 @@ Congress has recently passed a bill forbidding international family planning org - Let young women lead in shutting down fake clinics. The religious right is on a roll to take back what gains women have made towards sexual freedom. Sexual autonomy and reproductive autonomy are inherently linked. It’s hard to have great heterosexual sex if you are worried about bleeding to death from a back alley abortion. -Operation Rescue began a national campaign this year to target high school girls with gory fetus photos, abstinence programs and calls to renew virginity (whatever that means). Since the mid-80s federal funds only go to school based sex ed. programs that teach abstinence. + Operation Rescue began a national campaign this year to target high school girls with gory fetus photos, abstinence programs and calls to renew virginity (whatever that means). Since the mid-80s federal funds only go to school based sex ed. programs that teach abstinence. -There are four fake clinics to every one real women’s health care clinic. Fake clinics, run by anti-abortionists, pose as real clinics to lure young pregnant women and scare them into carrying their pregnancies to term. They advertise as Crisis Pregnancy Centers, and fail to mention their anti-abortion politics in their ads. They often set up shop near high schools or real clinics, lie about fetal development, and make empty promises of “help.” Many of these anti-abortion centers are linked to profit-making adoption agencies and have an economic interest (as well as a patriarchal one) in coercing women to bear unwanted children. + There are four fake clinics to every one real women’s health care clinic. Fake clinics, run by anti-abortionists, pose as real clinics to lure young pregnant women and scare them into carrying their pregnancies to term. They advertise as Crisis Pregnancy Centers, and fail to mention their anti-abortion politics in their ads. They often set up shop near high schools or real clinics, lie about fetal development, and make empty promises of “help.” Many of these anti-abortion centers are linked to profit-making adoption agencies and have an economic interest (as well as a patriarchal one) in coercing women to bear unwanted children. - You can shut down your local “crisis pregnancy center” through consistent exposure, demonstrations and direct action. Make it costly for them to put out their lies. Steer women to real clinics where they can get full information about abortion, birth control and health care. |