One in four women has this story, but it is taboo for everyone. This dark secret is kept quiet with close friends, who preferably have experienced it. We are not able to talk about why we are where we are. “The Christian right has done an amazing job in recent years stigmatizing abortion,” acknowledges Blair Wallace (reproductive health strategist at the department of Sexuality and Gender Equality of American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU of Texas).
Last Friday was as dark as the secrets he wanted to erase from the hearts all women who had an abortion. As they did with the suffocating cells, which threatened to take their power in an unwelcome metamorphosis, they should let go of the guilt. Planned Parenthood is the largest American family planning organization.
There are enough euphemistic phrases to talk about “women’s reproductive rights”. Joe Biden, the first Catholic president since John F. Kennedy, went to such lengths to avoid the word that there is even a website dedicated to keeping track of him (www.didbidensayabortionyet.org). It is unlikely that it will drown out any call from any woman who needs to make an appointment. I must say it quietly, in a guilty feeling, atoning for her sorrows and hiding her dishonor forever, in order to be the purest society. Wallace asks them to relay it to all four winds. Only then can they find salvation.
“Speak it for a whole week. Then, for a month. Later, she instructs her sister activists in a workshop held within the Arena summit framework, an organization that was established after Donald Trump’s victory in 2016. This workshop is designed to teach activists across the country. She must tell her story, which she kept to herself for many years, in order to make it personal and to awaken empathy that is often lacking in others.
It is a fact that everyone loves someone who has had an abortive procedure. They will be able to see the truth when the stories start to surface. There is a kind of
She just arrived in Dallas and was interviewed by the pastor at a church that assists Texas women to travel outside of Texas to end their pregnancies. Because abortion is not a one-way street, the man has shared his story on air. Or at least it should. Because the US took abortion as a given and there was no need for it to be fought, societal needs to change.
Richards told the hundreds of people who have come to Austin to be prepared that “tough times lie ahead”. Although the Supreme Court’s positions on abortion are for life, the fight to restore the right may take decades. But it all starts with a personal story. The Christian right has been able, in its rhetoric, to call itself “pro-life”, while no woman who has had an abortion has ever spoken out against it.
This effective movement has made activists ‘pro-choice’ even though many women feel they don’t have any choice. Wallace explains to them that choosing is as simple as choosing between two cereals for breakfast. “Aborting is a decision every woman makes.”
They will use that term to refer to their right to make their own decisions. The abortion movement will remain pro-abortion, with no guilt or shame. To ensure that pro-abortion politicians are elected to the Supreme Court, when lifetime Supreme Court seats become vacant, many elections will be needed. You cannot afford to wait, there is no time to waste and you don’t have to lose. When is the best time for planting a tree? Do you want to plant a tree twenty years ago? Wallas insists that the best time is now.
To guarantee the right of voluntary termination of pregnancy, the French government wants to inscribe abortion rights in the Constitution. Republic on the Move, the party headed by Emmanuel Macron, will present a draft constitution law to “protect the right of abortion” in France. Aurore Berge of the National Assembly’s government party, announced the news.
Elisabeth Borne (Prime Minister) confirmed via Twitter that the Executive would “strongly” support the bill. Borne, who is the second woman to hold this position in French history, stated that “for all women, and for human rights, it must be engraved in marble.”
Macron lamented Friday’s decision by the United States Supreme Court that would have ended the federal right to abortion. This will now be dependent on the 50 states that make-up the country. “Abortion should be a fundamental human right for all women. “It must be protected,” said the French president.
France has made abortion legal since 1975 thanks to the Veil law. This law is named after Simone Veil who was Minister of Health and President of the European Parliament. He also survived the Holocaust. According to current legislation, abortion can be performed within 14 weeks of pregnancy.
