Dec 6, 2021
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Jacobin

We Need Radical Energy in the Fight for Abortion Rights

The Supreme Court is about to gut abortion rights in America. The anti-abortion movement is winning — the Left can’t turn the tide without connecting reproductive rights to broader progressive struggles throughout the country.

We are about to lose the legal right to abortion.

The Supreme Court heard arguments on December 1 in the first direct challenge to Roe v. Wade in almost fifty years. The conservative majority has indicated that they support upholding a Mississippi law that bans abortion starting at fifteen weeks of pregnancy, a ruling that could undermine and possibly overturn Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion nationwide in 1973.

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