How “free speech” has come to be interpreted as a right to deny a safe and legal prescription and directly control the inner workings of another person’s body is an inexplicable overreach, and judicial activism of the worst kind. It is also sexism, as it is directed only toward women.
Women have made incredible strides in the 100 years since the first International Women’s Day, but the challenges ahead of us are extraordinary. The individual atrocities and indignities committed against women every day will not stop until the larger war against women is ended and full equality is guaranteed.
Speaker Boehner has declared barring federal funding for abortion care a ‘highest priority’ — responding not to the call of his constituents but to the demands of the Catholic bishops. NOW is fighting back against these attacks, which target all forms of reproductive health care and threaten women’s lives.
It’s time to focus once again on the grievous injury of what the Hyde Amendment represents. Abortion is a legal medical procedure protected by the constitutional right to privacy; segregating access to this form of health care is discrimination against women. Let’s pause to consider that most of our country’s history has been punctuated by men making choices for women without their consent.
It was a brutally cold day in New York on the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, but the subzero temperatures could not deter members of the NOW-New York State Young Feminist Task Force from attending two separate pro-choice events.
No more redactions. No more cover-ups. No more protection for powerful abusers.
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