‘Go away march of spite, health care is a human right’ chanted protesters
Socialist Worker
7 September 2024
Up to 400 people joined a pro-choice protest in parliament square on Saturday to confront the bigots’ annual March for Life.
The crowd chanted, “When abortion rights are under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back,” and, “Go away march of spite, health care is a human right.”
Abortion care remains difficult to access in Newfoundland and Labrador, but providers are coming up with creative solutions
BY RHEA ROLLMANN
JUNE 20, 2024
It was on a cold and blustery afternoon last month. About 60 reproductive justice activists gathered outside the Confederation Building in St. John’s to defend reproductive rights.
The May 17 event was organised as a counter-rally to the annual March For Life held by anti-choice activists. But the March for Life protestors didn’t show up this year.
Continued: https://theindependent.ca/news/we-do-it-because-its-the-right-thing-to-do/
Revealed: Tax filings show Knights of Columbus ploughed at least $10.8m into ‘crisis pregnancy centres’ in six years
Open Democracy – by Diana Cariboni, Angelina De Los Santos, Mónica Cordero
14 February 2024
A multi-billion-dollar all-male Catholic order in the US has handed at least $10.8m to hundreds of anti-abortion centres in six years, openDemocracy can reveal – several times what was previously known.
Founded in the 19th century to assist Irish widows and orphans in the US, the Knights of Columbus – named after Christopher Columbus – funded at least 485 of the 2,500 so-called ‘crisis pregnancy centres’ in America between 2017 and 2022, our analysis of hundreds of documents filed with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) found. The order claims to have two million members.
19th January 2024
By Holly Honderich, BBC News, Washington
On Friday, activists assembled in Washington for the March for Life, the nation's largest annual anti-abortion rally.
The crowds were thinner than in past years, due in part to the cold temperatures and blowing snow that blanketed the capital overnight. But the campaigners in attendance this year also acknowledged the more concerning headwinds facing their movement, now in an election year: a general public broadly supportive of abortion rights, and a Republican party increasingly hesitant to join the fight.
Continued: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68027344
Abortion rights have won on the ballot in red states before, but here's how Ohio's Issue 1 measure is different.
Grace Panetta
October 10, 2023
COLUMBUS, Ohio — On a cloudy recent Friday morning, thousands of protestors descended on the Ohio statehouse for the March for Life, many holding signs with sayings like, “Ohio is Pro-Life” and “Vote No on Issue 1.” That measure, Issue 1, would guarantee a constitutional right to an abortion and other reproductive health care.
All eyes were on Ohio, said Jeanne Mancini, president of the national anti-abortion March for Life. They were at a “cultural crossroads, she said, and Ohioians would be judged on their vote on November 7.
Continued: https://19thnews.org/2023/10/ohio-issue-1-abortion-ballot-measure-november/
A handful of pharmacies are offering the pills 10 months after the Biden administration allowed them to do so.
By ALICE MIRANDA OLLSTEIN and LAUREN GARDNER
Oct 6, 2023
A handful of independent pharmacies across the country have quietly begun dispensing the abortion pill mifepristone under new rules created by the Biden administration earlier this year, even as a looming Supreme Court case could reimpose restrictions or ban the drugs entirely.
Thousands of branches of major pharmacy chains are poised to join them — making the drugs more accessible to millions of people nationwide and kicking off a new phase of the legal and political battle over the most popular method of ending a pregnancy.
Continued: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/06/pharmacies-begin-dispensing-abortion-pills-00120397
Emboldened by victories at home, some of the most prominent American anti-abortion groups are exporting their tactics overseas
Katherine Stewart
Sun 2 Apr 2023
Anti-abortion groups are stepping up efforts to spread US-style abortion politics to the UK, ramping up spending with the ambition of shaking up political life beyond American borders.
Fresh off their historic victory in bringing about the end of the constitutional right to abortion in the US, these groups are importing familiar tactics, including public protests and demonstrations, anti-abortion counseling centers or so-called “crisis pregnancy centers”, and the cultivation of ties with clerical leaders.
Continued: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/02/us-anti-abortion-groups-uk-far-right
Christine Fernando, USA TODAY
Jan 19, 2023
Each year since 1973, abortion rights activists have gathered on Jan. 22 for “Roe v. Wade Day” to celebrate the Supreme Court decision that granted a constitutional right to abortion.
But now, 50 years after the decision, Roe v. Wade Day will be different: Sunday will also mark the first anniversary of Roe since the ruling was overturned.
The divisions among anti-abortion groups and Republican leaders threaten to undercut a movement that for decades has shaped party platforms, tipped the scales in primaries, and helped steer the federal judiciary rightward.
By ALICE MIRANDA OLLSTEIN and MEGAN MESSERLY
11/21/2022
Abortion opponents are pushing the GOP to campaign more openly and forcefully against the procedure after the party suffered a string of losses in House, Senate, state legislative and ballot initiative fights.
Less than six months after celebrating their decades-long goal of toppling Roe v. Wade and watching access to abortion nearly disappear in a quarter of the country, conservatives saw their hard-fought court victory galvanize abortion-rights supporters to outspend and outvote them in the midterms.
Continued: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/21/anti-abortion-groups-election-loss-00069569
With protests against abortion rights becoming increasingly aggressive, countries such as England, Wales and Spain are drawing up laws to protect people at clinics.
Ines Eisele
October 23, 2022
On January 20, 2023, hundreds of thousands of opponents of abortion rights are expected to gather in the US capital, Washington D.C., for the "March for Life." The march takes place annually on or around the anniversary of the January 22, 1973, Roe v. Wade decision, which had protected abortion rights in the United States until this June, when the US Supreme Court overturned the decision. Several states have since further restricted abortion.
Though the march is the biggest and most famous anti-abortion event, there are many such rallies in the United States and around the world. Many organizations that were founded to oppose abortion rights in the United States now have branches abroad. One of the biggest organizations in the world for opponents of reproductive rights is 40 Days for Life, a Christian organization that campaigns against abortion in dozens of countries.
Continued: https://www.dw.com/en/us-style-anti-abortion-protests-are-spreading-to-europe/a-63528128
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