Fact Sheet: Abortion Rights Emergency
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Did you know? Abortion rights are in a state of emergency, and headed for disaster. It is urgent that everyone act now to stop this war on women. Forcing women to have children against their will is a form of enslavement. 2011-2013 Two hundred and three abortion restrictions were passed on the state level; that’s more than in the entire preceding decade. Clinics in Michigan, Florida, Wisconsin and Texas were attacked with explosives in 2011-2012. 2013 22 states passed 70 restrictions on abortion. The U.S. House of Representatives approved a 20- week ban on abortion. An abortion clinic in Indiana was vandalized with an axe. A man attempted twice to burn down a Planned Parenthood in Missouri. Another man was convicted of planning to assassinate an abortion doctor in Wisconsin. 2014 A clinic in Montana was so viciously vandalized that it has been closed indefinitely. West Virginia and Mississippi passed 20 week bans against abortion. Oklahoma and Louisiana passed the hospital privileges law that will shut down half their clinics (leaving 2-3 in each state). Alabama House of Representatives passed a ban on abortion at six weeks, with no exception for rape or incest! This comes on top of: parental consent, state-mandated "counseling" and ultrasounds, mandatory 48-hour waiting periods, and limited access to public funds for reproductive healthcare. 19 percent of women in Alabama are living below the poverty line. 47K women around the world die every year from illegal, unsafe abortions 5K women in the U.S. are estimated to have died every year from illegal, unsafe abortions before Roe v. Wade legalized abortions 42 states prohibit abortion at some point in the pregnancy 87% of all counties in the U.S. have no abortion provider 6 states have only one surgical abortion clinic 8 abortion providers (doctors and staff) have been murdered by anti- abortion fanatics There can be no “common ground” with those StopPatriarchy.org THIS IS WRONG. RIGHT NOW... Women across the country who cannot access safe abortions are attempting to self-abort using dangerous methods. Many more are forced to give birth to unwanted children and are trapped in abusive relationships, driven (deeper) into poverty, or are separated at birth from a baby they can’t care for. This is the future for all women if these attacks are not resisted and defeated! • The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that “buffer zone” laws protecting abortion clinics in Massachusetts are unconstitutional. Those laws were originally enacted in the wake of the murder of 2 female clinic workers in 1994. This striking down of protective measures for women and clinic staff calls into question similar buffer zone laws across the U.S. • The Supreme Court ruled in favor of “Hobby Lobby” employers are not obligated to cover birth control in their health insurance plans. This has opened the door to possibilities of unfettered bigotry being applied in the name of “freedom of religion.” • The last clinic in Mississippi is still waiting to hear if the 5th District Court will rule that due to bogus “hospital privileges” law, the clinic will be forced to close. Anti-abortion fanatics regularly tell the fearless MS clinic escorts to kill themselves • At hundreds of clinics all across the country, anti-abortion fanatics accuse Black and Latina women of carrying out “genocide” against their “race”, they call women “murderers,” and spread lies about the “dangers” of abortion. • Legislation passed in Texas last year has been devastating. The last abortion clinic in the impoverished Rio Grande region had to stop providing abortions in March, after reporting an increase of patients attempting to self-induce. The “abortion pill” is now extremely difficult to get. Last year, Texas had 44 abortion clinics, and by September 2014, if nothing changes, there will be ONLY SIX. who are fighting for female enslavement. The fight over abortion has never been about babies, it has always been about control over women. For far too long, pro-choice people have hoped that the Democrats or the courts would somehow stop this fascist assault on women. Too many people have remained passive, or funneled all their energies into supporting politicians who openly seek “common ground” with forces who are fighting for female enslavement. Unacceptable! “Common ground” has really meant losing ground to this whole onslaught. As a result, for decades we have watched as yesterday's outrage became today's “compromise position” and tomorrow's limit of what can be imagined. In reality, the future is up to us! This whole direction must be uncompromisingly resisted and defeated! This requires changing the terms by telling the truth: Fetuses are NOT babies. Abortion is NOT murder. Women are NOT incubators. Women need: Abortion On Demand and Without Apology! And it requires going out into the streets and waging massive, public, uncompromising, political resistance. We must rely on ourselves – and mobilize the outrage of others – to STOP THIS WAR ON WOMEN. Sources cited at: StopPatriarchy.org/Fact-Sheet AND WHAT DO THE DEMOCRATS SAY?! Hillary Clinton: “I for one, respect those who believe that there are no circumstances under which any abortions should ever be available.” Wendy Davis: “I would have and could have voted to allow [a ban on abortions at 20 weeks] to go through, if I felt like we had tightly defined the ability for a woman and a doctor to be making this decision together...” ...and Obama has repeatedly said he supports restrictions on abortion and “respects the views” of and seeks “common ground” with those who will not be satisfied until all abortions are illegal.
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Did you know?Abortion rights are in a state of emergency, and headed for disaster. It is urgent that everyone act now to stop this war on women. Forcing women to have children against their will is a form of enslavement.
2011-2013Two hundred and three abortion restrictions were passed on the state level; that’s more than in the entire preceding decade.
Clinics in Michigan, Florida, Wisconsin and Texas were attacked with explosives in 2011-2012.
201322 states passed 70 restrictions on abortion.
The U.S. House of Representatives approved a 20-week ban on abortion.
An abortion clinic in Indiana was vandalized with an axe.
A man attempted twice to burn down a Planned Parenthood in Missouri.
Another man was convicted of planning to assassinate an abortion doctor in Wisconsin.
2014
A clinic in Montana was so viciously vandalized that it has been closed indefinitely.
West Virginia and Mississippi passed 20 week bans against abortion.
Oklahoma and Louisiana passed the hospital privileges law that will shut down half their clinics (leaving 2-3 in each state).
Alabama House of Representatives passed a ban on abortion at six weeks, with no exception for rape or incest! This comes on top of: parental consent, state-mandated "counseling" and ultrasounds, mandatory 48-hour waiting periods, and limited access to public funds for reproductive healthcare. 19 percent of women in Alabama are living below the poverty line.
47Kwomen around the world
die every year from illegal, unsafe abortions
5Kwomen in the U.S. are
estimated to have died every year from illegal, unsafe abortions before Roe v.
Wade legalized abortions
42states prohibit abortion
at some point in the pregnancy
87%of all counties in the U.S. have no abortion provider
6states have only one
surgical abortion clinic
8abortion providers
(doctors and staff) have been murdered by anti-
abortion fanatics
There can be no “common ground” with those
StopPatriarchy.org
THIS IS WRONG.
RIGHT NOW...Women across the country who cannot access safe abortions are attempting to self-abort using dangerous methods. Many more are forced to give birth to unwanted children and are trapped in abusive relationships, driven (deeper) into poverty, or are separated at birth from a baby they can’t care for. This is the future for all women if these attacks are not resisted and defeated!
• The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that “buffer zone” laws protecting abortion clinics in Massachusetts are unconstitutional. Those laws were originally enacted in the wake of the murder of 2 female clinic workers in 1994. This striking down of protective measures for women and clinic staff calls into question similar buffer zone laws across the U.S.
• The Supreme Court ruled in favor of “Hobby Lobby” employers are not obligated to cover birth control in their health insurance plans. This has opened the door to possibilities of unfettered bigotry being applied in the name of “freedom of religion.”
• The last clinic in Mississippi is still waiting to hear if the 5th District Court will rule that due to bogus “hospital privileges” law, the clinic will be forced to close. Anti-abortion fanatics regularly tell the fearless MS clinic escorts to kill themselves
• At hundreds of clinics all across the country, anti-abortion fanatics accuse Black and Latina women of carrying out “genocide” against their “race”, they call women “murderers,” and spread lies about the “dangers” of abortion.
• Legislation passed in Texas last year has been devastating. The last abortion clinic in the impoverished Rio Grande region had to stop providing abortions in March, after reporting an increase of patients attempting to self-induce. The “abortion pill” is now extremely difficult to get. Last year, Texas had 44 abortion clinics, and by September 2014, if nothing changes, there will be ONLY SIX.
who are fighting for female enslavement. The fight over abortion has never been about babies, it has always been about control over women.
For far too long, pro-choice people have hoped that the Democrats or the courts would somehow stop this fascist assault on women. Too many people have remained passive, or funneled all their energies into supporting politicians who openly seek “common ground” with forces who are fighting for female enslavement. Unacceptable! “Common ground” has really meant losing
ground to this whole onslaught. As a result, for decades we have watched as yesterday's outrage became today's “compromise position” and tomorrow's limit of what can be imagined.
In reality, the future is up to us! This whole direction must be uncompromisingly resisted and defeated! This requires changing the terms by telling the truth: Fetuses are NOT babies. Abortion is NOT murder. Women are NOT
incubators. Women need: Abortion On Demand and Without Apology! And it requires going out into the streets and waging massive, public, uncompromising, political resistance. We must rely on ourselves – and mobilize the
outrage of others – to STOP THIS WAR ON WOMEN.
Sources cited at: StopPatriarchy.org/Fact-Sheet
AND WHAT DO THE DEMOCRATS SAY?!Hillary Clinton: “I for one, respect those who believe that there are no circumstances under which any abortions should ever be available.”
Wendy Davis: “I would have and could have voted to allow [a ban on abortions at 20 weeks] to go through, if I felt like we had tightly defined the ability for a woman and a doctor to be making this decision together...”
...and Obama has repeatedly said he supports restrictions on abortion and “respects the views” of and seeks “common ground” with those who will not be satisfied until all abortions are illegal.
Abortion Rights Freedom Ride 2014: GROUND ZERO TEXAS
StopPatriarchy.org
Abortion rights—and the lives and future of women—are in a state of emergency. Nowhere is this more concentrated than in Texas.
In 2011 there were 46 abortion clinics in Texas; if all the current restrictions go into effect as scheduled, by September 1st of 2014 there will be only 6 clinics remaining. Texas is over 800 miles wide and has over 26 million residents. Women who cannot access safe, legal abortions have their lives foreclosed when they are forced to have children against their will. Or, they risk their lives, die, or go to prison for attempting to self-induce abortions.
Women who live in poverty, especially immigrant women and others in the Rio Grande Valley along the Mexican border, have been hit the hardest. Unable to come up with the money to travel hours to the nearest clinic and/or unable to travel through the immigration checkpoints for lack of “legal” documents, these women are trapped. On September 1st, if a medically unnecessary law designed to close abortion clinics goes into effect, the nearest clinic will be closed and these women will have to travel approximately 300 miles to the next nearest clinic.
It is immoral to abandon the women of Texas. It is also delusional to think that these attacks will not spread to the rest of the country if they are not stopped there. In reality, Texas is a concentration of the nationwide war on women. 6 states have only one abortion clinic. 203 laws restricting abortion have been passed nationwide since 2011. 8 doctors and clinic workers have been murdered by anti-abortion violence, and in March 2014 a clinic was so severely vandalized in Montana that it was forced to close. Everywhere, women who seek abortions are harassed, shamed, humiliated and terrorized.
Forced Motherhood Is Female Enslavement!Abortion Providers Are Heroes!
Abortion On Demand and Without Apology!
Join and support the Abortion Rights Freedom Ride 2014: GROUND ZERO TEXAS
In August (dates to be announced soon) the Abortion Rights Freedom Ride will caravan though Texas, stopping in Houston, Austin, San Antonio, and then down to the Rio Grande Valley near the Mexican border. People from around the country and around Texas will politically confront and protest those behind the anti-abortion attacks and laws, rally support for those on the front lines providing abortions, fight to change the way people think about abortion by raising the slogans: Abortion On Demand and Without Apology, and Forced Motherhood Is Female Enslavement -- and wake people up nationwide to this emergency.
What you can do now: SIGNUP to take part in the Ride, VOLUNTEER to house people down in Texas, DONATE to this effort, volunteer to SPREAD and SUPPORT this nationwide.
StopPatriarchy.org Contact: [email protected] @StopPatriarchy facebook.com/StopPatriarchy
