WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today is “Roe Day” –the 49th Anniversary of Roe v Wade. Will it make it to 50? With an anti-abortion Supreme Court majority now firmly in place, we face the very real threat that women will be stripped of their constitutional right to abortion, especially with the Court about to rule on Read more …
On “Roe Day,” we need to recommit to electing lawmakers who will defend abortion rights in Washington and the states. In 2022, we need to vote for women’s lives. Our goal is to elect a 60-vote abortion rights majority in the Senate and flip state legislatures that are currently held by the narrowest of margins.
Christian Nunes, president of the National Organization of Women, told Al Jazeera: “I am really concerned about where we are going to go, especially with how the courts are stacked right now.”
“It’s disheartening to hear that the U.S. wants to advocate or comment about other countries and how they treat women, but yet here we are trying to control a person’s decision about their own reproductive care and access,” says NOW’s Nunes. “We have to think deeper about how we’re looking as a country.”
Reversing Roe would cause an access gap between those who have the means and resources to travel for an abortion and those who don’t said, Nunes.
“Those with money are still going to have access to abortion,” she said. “Certain communities are going to be the ones that are most affected by this access: women of color, women with disabilities, LGBTQIA members, women in poverty. We’re going to go back to a time where people have to seek unsafe underground abortion practices since they can’t afford to travel to states.”