Rights advocates considered the devastating effects of the US Supreme Court’s overthrow of the Supreme Court on Saturday. Law vs Wade Exactly one year after the right-wing court majority stripped millions of people of their abortion rights, campaigners are rallying in Washington, D.C. and across the country to defend reproductive liberty against Democrats and the White House. demanded bold action.
“Republicans are now lobbying with heroes for a nationwide abortion ban. Mike Pencesaid NARAL Pro-Choice America Chairman Mini Timmaraju.poll Polls after polls show that Americans support us. They don’t want a nationwide abortion ban, they want Congress to codify access to abortion. ”
NARAL is among the rights groups that have pushed for the passage of the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA), which last year saw right-wing Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia join the Republicans to pass the law. tried to stop but was stopped. The law would recognize the right to access abortion care at the federal level.
of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Last year’s ruling, handed down just weeks after the WHPA was blocked, at least 14 states Republican lawmakers, including Senator Lindsey Graham (RS.C.) and former Vice President Mike Pence, who is running for president in 2024, are calling for a nationwide 15-week abortion ban.
“We are the majority!” said Timmaraj after leading the crowd with slogans. “It’s time to take back the courts. It’s time to take back the government.”
NARAL, along with family planning and other national rights groups, joined Congress in pushing for the past seven expansions of the Supreme Court in recent months.
Vice President Kamala Harris said Saturday in Charlotte, North Carolina. dealt with At a packed house at the Grady Cole Center, she said that “more than 350 new laws restricting access to these freedoms and reproductive health care” have been proposed or passed in states, and 23 million women of reproductive age will have access to this. He pointed out that he lives in the area. States that ban abortion.
“Radical Republicans in Congress are proposing a nationwide abortion ban. No, we don’t allow that, and by the way, the majority of Congress is proposing to ban abortion, and Americans are with us,” Harris said. “Congress must restore what the Supreme Court took away.”
The impact of abortion bans has been well documented in the past 12 months, with pregnant patients being denied treatment by doctors who fear prosecution, despite the health threats of pregnancy. This week’s obstetrics and gynecology survey. found Sixty-eight percent of physicians said Dobbs made it more difficult to respond to pregnancy-related medical emergencies, and 64% said the ruling worsened pregnancy-related mortality.
As the anniversary approached this week, President Joe Biden signed an executive order expanding access to contraception, as did Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs, a Democrat. took action Stop county prosecution of people who have had abortions. Hobbes has a 15-week abortion ban in force.
Tara Demant, Head of US National Programs, Amnesty International Said Even in states without bans, “a climate of fear is deliberately created to prevent women, girls and those of childbearing potential from accessing legal abortion care.” It says.
“But despite these systematic and scathing attacks on our rights, Americans continue to overwhelmingly support access to safe and legal abortion, and states have added new protections. and activists across states continue to assert their rights,” Demant said. “Abortion is a human right, a basic health care, and activists across the country and around the world are more determined than ever to ensure that this right is available to people across the United States. .”
