Thursday, December 29, 2011

Why We Must Put Our Bodies on the Line to Fight Against the Right-Wing War on Women's Rights

Why We Must Put Our Bodies on the Line to Fight Against the Right-Wing War on Women's Rights: "Is it time for a reproductive rights revolution? We've done it before; the climate may be right again for occupations and actions to save our bodies from state control.

In case you haven’t noticed, pro-choicers are getting pissed off.

In the halls of power, we’re not making progress. As Sarah Jaffe discussed earlier this month, in the wake of the Plan B disaster there’s an escalating sense that all the hard work abortion-rights supporters do making donations, phone calls and signing petitions hasn’t convinced most Democratic lawmakers not to use women as a bargaining chip.

Despite some modest gains, overall there’s a steady chipping away of abortion rights and access to contraception, no matter who’s in office or what he or she pledges to do...."

2 comments:

MotivatedinOhio said...

They seem to want women barefoot and pregnant.

Underground Politics said...

Yeah it sure does seem that way. Some women may be ok with that. Me, not at all.