Posted on Jun 25, 2022
Longtime women's rights attorney reacts to Supreme Court abortion ruling
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The Supreme Court has reversed Roe v. Wade, the court's five-decades-old decision that guaranteed a woman's right to obtain an abortion.
Here & Now's Anthony Brooks speaks with Kathryn Kolbert, a longtime women's rights attorney. She argued the Supreme Court case Planned Parenthood v. Casey in the 1990s that reaffirmed Roe.
Here & Now's Anthony Brooks speaks with Kathryn Kolbert, a longtime women's rights attorney. She argued the Supreme Court case Planned Parenthood v. Casey in the 1990s that reaffirmed Roe.
Longtime women's rights attorney reacts to Supreme Court abortion ruling
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1.) POLITICS
* ABORTION
* WHITE SUPREMACY
The Long History of the Anti-Abortion Movement’s Links to White Supremacists
Racism and xenophobia have been woven into the anti-abortion movement for decades, despite the careful curation of its public image.
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
“T
he anti-abortion movement in the United States has long been complicit with white supremacy. In recent decades, the movement mainstream has been careful to protect its public image by distancing itself from overt white nationalists in its ranks. Last year, anti-abortion leader Kristen Hatten was ousted from her position as vice president of the anti-choice group New Wave Feminists after identifying as an “ethnonationalist” and sharing white supremacist alt-right content. In 2018, when neo-Nazis from the Traditionalist Worker Party (TWP) sought to join the local March for Life rally organized by Tennessee Right to Life, the anti-abortion organization rejected TWP’s involvement. (The organization’s statement, however, engaged in the same false equivalency between left and right that Trump used in the wake of fatal white supremacist violence at Charlottesville. “Our organization’s march has a single agenda to support the rights of mothers and the unborn, and we don’t agree with the violent agenda of white supremacists or Antifa,” the group wrote on its Facebook page.)”
“As sociologists Nicola Beisel and Tamara Kay wrote with regards to the criminalization of abortion in the late 19th century, “While laws regulating abortion would ultimately affect all women, physicians argued that middle-class, Anglo-Saxon married women were those obtaining abortions, and that their use of abortion to curtail childbearing threatened the Anglo-Saxon race.”
SOURCE : https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/anti-abortion-white-supremacy/
2.) ENDING THE VIOLENCE: Applying the Ku Klux Klan Act, RICO, and FACE to the Abortion Controversy
“In March of 1993, David Gunn, a doctor who provided abortion servic- es in Pensacola, Florida, was shot and killed.' The gunman was a member of Operation Rescue.2 Recently, doctors who legally perform abortions have felt so threatened that they hire body guards to protect them and to help them gain access to their places of work.' Even these drastic measures are some- times futile.
In July of 1994, Dr. John Britton and his volunteer body guard, James Barrett, were both shot and killed4 outside of an abortion clinic.' Once again, the gunman was a member of Operation Rescue.6 From 1977 to April
1993, more than 1,000 acts of violence against abortion providers were reported in the United States.'
These acts included at least 36 bombings, 81 arsons, 131 death threats, 84 assaults, two kidnappings, one murder, and 327 clinic invasions! In addition, over 6,000 clinic blockades and other disrup- tions have been reported since 1977.”
SOURCE : https://scholarship.law.uwyo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1987&context=land_water
3.) THE APPLICABILITY OF SECTION 241 OF THE KU KLUX KLAN ACTS TO PRIVATE CONSPIRACIES
TO OBSTRUCT OR PRECLUDE ACCESS TO ABORTION*
SOURCE : https://escholarship.org/content/qt87z8t88x/qt87z8t88x_noSplash_cbf7bd97708b138b3f06adc005f41433.pdf
4.) The Link Between the Capitol Riot and Anti-Abortion Extremism
Jessica Winter
SOURCE : https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-link-between-the-capitol-riot-and-anti-abortion-extremism/amp
* ABORTION
* WHITE SUPREMACY
The Long History of the Anti-Abortion Movement’s Links to White Supremacists
Racism and xenophobia have been woven into the anti-abortion movement for decades, despite the careful curation of its public image.
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
“T
he anti-abortion movement in the United States has long been complicit with white supremacy. In recent decades, the movement mainstream has been careful to protect its public image by distancing itself from overt white nationalists in its ranks. Last year, anti-abortion leader Kristen Hatten was ousted from her position as vice president of the anti-choice group New Wave Feminists after identifying as an “ethnonationalist” and sharing white supremacist alt-right content. In 2018, when neo-Nazis from the Traditionalist Worker Party (TWP) sought to join the local March for Life rally organized by Tennessee Right to Life, the anti-abortion organization rejected TWP’s involvement. (The organization’s statement, however, engaged in the same false equivalency between left and right that Trump used in the wake of fatal white supremacist violence at Charlottesville. “Our organization’s march has a single agenda to support the rights of mothers and the unborn, and we don’t agree with the violent agenda of white supremacists or Antifa,” the group wrote on its Facebook page.)”
“As sociologists Nicola Beisel and Tamara Kay wrote with regards to the criminalization of abortion in the late 19th century, “While laws regulating abortion would ultimately affect all women, physicians argued that middle-class, Anglo-Saxon married women were those obtaining abortions, and that their use of abortion to curtail childbearing threatened the Anglo-Saxon race.”
SOURCE : https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/anti-abortion-white-supremacy/
2.) ENDING THE VIOLENCE: Applying the Ku Klux Klan Act, RICO, and FACE to the Abortion Controversy
“In March of 1993, David Gunn, a doctor who provided abortion servic- es in Pensacola, Florida, was shot and killed.' The gunman was a member of Operation Rescue.2 Recently, doctors who legally perform abortions have felt so threatened that they hire body guards to protect them and to help them gain access to their places of work.' Even these drastic measures are some- times futile.
In July of 1994, Dr. John Britton and his volunteer body guard, James Barrett, were both shot and killed4 outside of an abortion clinic.' Once again, the gunman was a member of Operation Rescue.6 From 1977 to April
1993, more than 1,000 acts of violence against abortion providers were reported in the United States.'
These acts included at least 36 bombings, 81 arsons, 131 death threats, 84 assaults, two kidnappings, one murder, and 327 clinic invasions! In addition, over 6,000 clinic blockades and other disrup- tions have been reported since 1977.”
SOURCE : https://scholarship.law.uwyo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1987&context=land_water
3.) THE APPLICABILITY OF SECTION 241 OF THE KU KLUX KLAN ACTS TO PRIVATE CONSPIRACIES
TO OBSTRUCT OR PRECLUDE ACCESS TO ABORTION*
SOURCE : https://escholarship.org/content/qt87z8t88x/qt87z8t88x_noSplash_cbf7bd97708b138b3f06adc005f41433.pdf
4.) The Link Between the Capitol Riot and Anti-Abortion Extremism
Jessica Winter
SOURCE : https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-link-between-the-capitol-riot-and-anti-abortion-extremism/amp
The Long History of the Anti-Abortion Movement’s Links to White Supremacists
Racism and xenophobia have been woven into the anti-abortion movement for decades, despite the careful curation of its public image.
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1.) In Response to Supreme Court Decision, Governor Newsom Signs Legislation to Protect Women and Providers in California from Abortion Bans by Other States
“SACRAMENTO – On the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Governor Gavin Newsom today signed legislation to help protect patients and providers in California against radical attempts by other states to extend their anti-abortion laws into California.
“With today’s Supreme Court decision to endanger the health and safety of millions of women across the country, California must do everything it can to protect the fundamental rights of all women – in California and beyond,” said Governor Newsom. “We know that states like Missouri are already targeting women seeking abortions in states like California where abortion remains legal.
This legislation seeks to protect women and care providers from civil liability imposed by other states, and sends a clear message that California will continue to be a safe haven for all women seeking reproductive health care services in our state.”
SOURCE : https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/06/24/in-response-to-supreme-court-decision-governor-newsom-signs-legislation-to-protect-women-and-providers-in-california-from-abortion-bans-by-other-states/
2.) LEGAL
California steps into the post-Roe future
The state has been readying itself to become an abortion haven.
“But no other state has created such a comprehensive strategy — a legislative bill package with more than a dozen proposals, new funding to expand abortion access and a proposed November ballot measure that would enshrine the right to abortion in the state Constitution.
“ABORTION STAYS LEGAL IN CA,” Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom tweeted Friday morning, lamenting that “This is not the America we know.”
SOURCE : https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/24/california-steps-into-the-post-roe-future-00042259
“SACRAMENTO – On the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Governor Gavin Newsom today signed legislation to help protect patients and providers in California against radical attempts by other states to extend their anti-abortion laws into California.
“With today’s Supreme Court decision to endanger the health and safety of millions of women across the country, California must do everything it can to protect the fundamental rights of all women – in California and beyond,” said Governor Newsom. “We know that states like Missouri are already targeting women seeking abortions in states like California where abortion remains legal.
This legislation seeks to protect women and care providers from civil liability imposed by other states, and sends a clear message that California will continue to be a safe haven for all women seeking reproductive health care services in our state.”
SOURCE : https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/06/24/in-response-to-supreme-court-decision-governor-newsom-signs-legislation-to-protect-women-and-providers-in-california-from-abortion-bans-by-other-states/
2.) LEGAL
California steps into the post-Roe future
The state has been readying itself to become an abortion haven.
“But no other state has created such a comprehensive strategy — a legislative bill package with more than a dozen proposals, new funding to expand abortion access and a proposed November ballot measure that would enshrine the right to abortion in the state Constitution.
“ABORTION STAYS LEGAL IN CA,” Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom tweeted Friday morning, lamenting that “This is not the America we know.”
SOURCE : https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/24/california-steps-into-the-post-roe-future-00042259
In Response to Supreme Court Decision, Governor Newsom Signs Legislation to Protect Women and...
SACRAMENTO – On the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Governor Gavin Newsom today signed legislation to help protect patients and providers in California against…
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