PROTEST! Weds July 1
Fetuses are NOT babies! Abortion is NOT murder!
Women are NOT incubators!
#RaiseHellJ1
Women are NOT incubators!
#RaiseHellJ1
Above: On July 1, 2015, people gathered in New York City, DC, Houston, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Cleveland, and Maui, to take a defiant and unapologetic stand AGAINST the all-out assault on abortion rights that is right now shutting down clinics, threatening doctors, and leaving women trapped, forced into motherhood against their wills, and driven to desperation. We hold bloody coathangers and stand with the faces of women who died from illegal abortions before 1973 in the U.S. and worldwide, and we are calling on YOU to stand on the right side of history in mass resistance against those that would see women enslaved.
The original call for this protest (below) was written in April 2015. For the most up-to-date information on the restrictions mentioned in the original call, click the link above.
Will you stand up against the massive assaults on abortion rights in Texas, Kansas, Tennessee, and nationwide?
PROTEST The Assault on Abortion Rights!
On June 9, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Texas anti-abortion law HB2 which will mean that all but 8 clinics in the huge state of Texas will be forced to close. On July 1st, new restrictions on abortion are scheduled to go into effect in Kansas and Tennessee.
These new restrictions are part of a national onslaught against abortion rights and birth control. Over 330 restrictions have been introduced nationwide already this year.
This cannot be tolerated if women are going to be treated as FULL HUMAN BEINGS. These laws will have devastating effects on the lives of women across the country, and especially in the deep South, where new restrictions have forced many abortion clinics to close. These unprecedented attacks on abortion rights, whether they come down in Kansas, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas or wherever, are attacks on all women. None of these laws have anything to do with "life." They are about slamming women back to the Dark Ages, reducing them to mere breeders.
On July 1st, as many as half the abortion clinics in Tennessee are expected to close due to new restrictions which will require abortion facilities to meet the same physical standards as a mini-emergency room (even though early abortion is an extremely simple, outpatient procedure).
The new Kansas law sets a dangerous precedent by banning the most common and safe procedure for performing an abortion after the first trimester of pregnancy. The effect is devastating when a woman needs a second trimester abortion and is denied. Now in 2015, starting but not ending in Kansas, the next stage of banning a medical best practice for abortion has been signed into law. If best practices for doctors in giving women the choice to decide what to do with their futures can be banned at earlier and earlier points in the pregnancy, the legal right to a safe abortion is a formality, not a reality.
Everyone who cares about women’s lives must take a stand. Take to the streets July 1st. PROTEST!
These new restrictions are part of a national onslaught against abortion rights and birth control. Over 330 restrictions have been introduced nationwide already this year.
This cannot be tolerated if women are going to be treated as FULL HUMAN BEINGS. These laws will have devastating effects on the lives of women across the country, and especially in the deep South, where new restrictions have forced many abortion clinics to close. These unprecedented attacks on abortion rights, whether they come down in Kansas, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas or wherever, are attacks on all women. None of these laws have anything to do with "life." They are about slamming women back to the Dark Ages, reducing them to mere breeders.
On July 1st, as many as half the abortion clinics in Tennessee are expected to close due to new restrictions which will require abortion facilities to meet the same physical standards as a mini-emergency room (even though early abortion is an extremely simple, outpatient procedure).
The new Kansas law sets a dangerous precedent by banning the most common and safe procedure for performing an abortion after the first trimester of pregnancy. The effect is devastating when a woman needs a second trimester abortion and is denied. Now in 2015, starting but not ending in Kansas, the next stage of banning a medical best practice for abortion has been signed into law. If best practices for doctors in giving women the choice to decide what to do with their futures can be banned at earlier and earlier points in the pregnancy, the legal right to a safe abortion is a formality, not a reality.
Everyone who cares about women’s lives must take a stand. Take to the streets July 1st. PROTEST!
Forced Motherhood is Female Enslavement!
| july_1_call.pdf |
