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Rewire News Group, a daily news publication focused on reproductive and sexual health; Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights, a for-profit activist coalition that leads demonstrations to bring awareness after the overturning of Roe v. Wade; Rock for Choice, a series of benefit concerts to allow musicians to support abortion-rights movements in the US and ...
[24] The SHA believed in the repeal of all abortion laws, including the 1963 Humane Abortion Act, which made abortion legal in cases of rape or incest. While still heading the Society for Humane Abortion, Maginnis set-up another organization in 1966 to carry on an underground feminist health referral system.
On August 24, 2022, two anti-abortion protesters vandalized an abortion-rights church in the Lake View, Chicago neighborhood on Chicago's north side. [ 101 ] [ 102 ] In Peoria, Illinois on January 15, 2023, an anti-abortion protester threw a fire accelerant at a window of a Planned Parenthood, causing a fire and an estimated $150,000 in damages ...
She was previously a professor in the Department of Women's Studies and Feminist Research at Western University, Canada. [2] [3] [4] Brennan was Department Chair of Philosophy at Western from 2002 to 2007, and 2008–2011. She is a past president of the Canadian Philosophical Association (2017–18). [2] [5] [failed verification]
From 1981 through 2017, the abortion rate fell by more than half, falling faster in Democratic administrations than Republican ones. The abortion rate fell below the 1973 rate in 2012 and continued to fall through 2017, when it stood at 13.5 abortions per 1,000 women of childbearing age. The abortion rate then rose from 2018 through 2020.
Anti-abortion feminist organizations generally do not distinguish between views on abortion as a legal issue, abortion as a moral issue, and abortion as a medical procedure. [2] Such distinctions are made by many women, for example women who would not abort their own pregnancies but would prefer that abortion remain legal. [ 2 ]
On June 24, 2022, in a 5–4 decision, the Supreme Court officially overturned Roe v.Wade and Planned Parenthood v.Casey. [9] The decision was divisive among the American public, [10] with 55 to 60% "split between those who think that it (abortion) should be mostly legal with some exceptions and mostly illegal but with exceptions" [11] and was generally condemned by international observers and ...
A woman advocating for reproductive justice, specifically abortion rights, outside the Supreme Court of the United States in 2012. Reproductive justice is a critical feminist framework that was invented as a response to United States reproductive politics. The three core values of reproductive justice are the right to have a child, the right to ...