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Reproductive Rights

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Eve's Choice: Patriarchy No Longer Rules

The passage of Roe v. Wade in 1973 was a direct undoing of the infrastructure of patriarchy: male rule, female submissiveness.

Robert C. Koehler ·

Cori Bush

Reproductive Rights Coalition Tells Dems to 'Stop Defending the Filibuster in Our Name'

"While the filibuster has prevented passage of anti-abortion legislation in the past, we are under no illusion that clinging to the filibuster will protect us now."

Jessica Corbett ·

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The GOP Attack on Women Is Funded by Corporate America

If a woman can be barred from controlling her own uterus, then everything else she thinks she controls is in doubt.

Jim Hightower ·

Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during a hearing

Sanders: GOP Ended Filibuster to Pack Supreme Court, So Dems Must End It to Save Abortion Rights

"If Republicans can end the filibuster to install right-wing justices nominated by presidents who lost the popular vote in order to overturn Roe v. Wade, Democrats can and must end the filibuster to make abortion legal and safe."

Jake Johnson ·

LGBTQ activists marching for reproductive rights.

The GOP War Against the LGBTQ Community Is Not Coming. It's Here.

But it must be said that the Roe draft signals a potential new and terrifying front in the already-raging assault on gay rights.

James Esseks ·

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Right-Wing Court's Attack on Abortion Rights Is Call for Mass Revolt

The justices making up the majority are clearly partisans representing a zealous minority. The people must respond with mass action, litigation, legislation, and voter registration.

Jesse Jackson ·

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Democratic AGs Position Themselves as 'Last Line of Defense' If Roe Falls

Dana Nessel refuses to enforce a "draconian" abortion ban from 1931 "that will endanger their lives and put at jeopardy the health, safety, and welfare of the lives of each and every woman in the state of Michigan."

Jessica Corbett ·

Elizabeth Warren

"We're Not Going Back—Never": Warren Has Plan to Defend Rights Enshrined in Roe

"The Supreme Court does not get the last word," the Massachusetts progressive asserted. "The American people—through their leaders in Congress—can and must take action."

Brett Wilkins ·

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Alito's Draft Is an Attack on Rights Beyond Abortion

Beyond its terrible implications for abortion rights, the leaked Supreme Court opinion would upend a long-settled system of values.

Michael Waldman ·

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks to reporters

McConnell Floats Federal Abortion Ban If Right-Wing Supreme Court Overturns Roe

"Nationwide abortion ban: that's the goal of anti-abortion politicians if they regain power in Washington this November," warned Planned Parenthood Action.

Jake Johnson ·

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