U.S. House Passes Women’s Health Protection Act: March For Women’s Rights on 10/2/21
By MUUSJN on Friday, October 1st, 2021
Something to Celebrate and Something to Protest!
Womens’ right to an abortion is under assault
On Wednesday, September 1st, the Texas legislature adopted and Gov. Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 8 that criminalized abortion after six weeks, effectively making most abortions in Texas illegal without exceptions for rape and incest — even before most women even know if they are pregnant. Unfortunately, the U.S. Supreme Court refused in a 5-4 decision to intervene to protect women’s choice to have an abortion in Texas. The Texas law, which allows anyone in the U.S., including anti-abortion vigilante’s, to cruelly file a $10,000 lawsuit against anyone they suspect of helping of perform an abortion, even a taxi driver driving a women to a clinic!
The state of Mississippi is taking a 15 week abortion ban law to the U.S. Supreme Court this December to challenge the 1973 landmark Roe v. Wade abortion rights decision. A ruling on this case could happen this coming summer.
Fighting Back!
Later this month, the Biden Justice Department filed a suit against the state of Texas. asking a federal judge to rule the Texas law invalid since it infringes on women’s constitutional rights and it violates the supremacy clause of the Constitution that federal law supersedes state law.
To oppose attacks on women’s rights, advocates helped pass the Women’s Health Protection Act in the U.S. House on September 24th. MUUSjN’S Interfaith Reproductive Justice Coalition sent a statewide action alert urging Michiganders to support this bill that was adopted 218-211.
ANOTHER WAY TO FIGHT BACK: A national coalition of women’s advocacy groups, including Planned Parenthood, are organizing hundreds of “Women’s Led Uprisings” on Saturday, October 2nd. Click HERE to find an event nearest you.
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