The abortion rights movement is bolder than it’s been in years. That’s Cecile Richards’s plan.
Read more on the @plannedparenthood president here.
Go Cecile!
Femi-List: SCOTUS Edition
1. Catch me up: On March 2nd, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on its biggest abortion case in decades, Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt. Long story short: Texas passed medically unnecessary, ridiculous laws to restrict abortion access. Clinics sued. Now, the Supreme Court is stepping in.
2. So, is Texas for real? Samantha Bee went digging, and found that Texas state Rep. Dan Flynn, one of the authors of the initial bill, doesn’t actually know how abortions work. Shocker.
3. Yeah, this is ridiculous: President of Planned Parenthood Cecile Richards isn’t having any of Texas’s hypocrisy. Because if a state does everything it can to stop you from getting a safe abortion, do you really have that right at all?
4. Thank God for Notorious RBG: Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Elena Kagan weren’t having it either. During oral arguments, they tore apart Texas’s argument and stood up for women’s reproductive rights. Can we fill up the Supreme Court entirely with women?
When the Supreme Court hears arguments this week in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt — the Center for Reproductive Rights’ challenge to the unprecedented barriers Texas created in 2013 to stop women from accessing safe and legal abortion — the first question justices should ask is this:
If the state bars you from exercising a constitutional right, do you really have that right at all?
That’s what’s at stake in Hellerstedt, which challenges the Texas legislature’s H.B. 2, a law imposing medically unnecessary requirements on health centers, regulating everything from the width of hallways to the outfitting of janitors’ closets — specifications that many health centers find impossible to fulfill and that do nothing to improve the quality of health care for women. Medical experts oppose this law because it hurts women by shutting down clinics and blocking access to safe, legal abortion — our right guaranteed by the court in Roe v. Wade.
Planned Parenthood President: “This Country Does Not Want to Go Backward.”
via cosmopolitanmagazine, high five ppaction
“When politicians argue and shout about abortion, they’re talking about me – and millions of other women around the country.”
Must. Read.
Great reminder from Cecile Richards at ppaction
The United States is poised to become a country in which a woman’s ability to make the private and personal medical decision best for herself and her family will be dependent upon where she happens to live.
Read the full text of her speech here.
ICYMI: must read