Not since the Pilgrims set up shop on the Shores of the "New World",
has there been such an all white male takeover. What I can't get my
head around is how many women either support, or allow, this total
control over their lives by their self-appointed White Masters.
The power to confuse and misdirect by our All White Male Oligarchy is
evident in its ability to herd the American People away from the life
threatening issues of today, and set up phony Straw Men.
Where is the passion condemning the ruthless murder of hundreds of
thousands of people around the world, supported by our drones, bombs,
and financial support? If the life of a fetus is so important, why
isn't the life of a young soldier who is gunned down fighting a
senseless war? Are we really going to mill about mindlessly while
children...entire families...starve to death because of our uncaring
disdain?
This morning I heard a woman weeping over the death of her young son,
following a bombing, because she could not move to try and help him.
She lay, unable to move, while he cried and begged her to help him.
He died during the night.
And people can ignore that, and fight for the life of an unborn fetus?
If it were my body, I'd know which one I would protect.
Carl Jarvis
On 5/23/19, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
https://themilitant.com/2019/05/18/join-protests-for-a-womans-right-to-abortion/
Join Protests for a Woman???s Right to Abortion!
Vol. 83/No. 21
May 27, 2019
Some 2,000 pro-choice demonstrators in Birmingham, Alabama, May 19
protest passage of strictest anti-abortion bill in the country by
Alabama legislature five days earlier.
Daniel Roth/AL.com via AP
Some 2,000 pro-choice demonstrators in Birmingham, Alabama, May 19
protest passage of strictest anti-abortion bill in the country by
Alabama legislature five days earlier.
The following statement was released May 20 by Alyson Kennedy, Socialist
Workers Party candidate for mayor
??of Dallas.
The Socialist Workers Party and its 2019 slate of candidates across the
country call on working people and all supporters of women???s rights to
join the growing protests against the accelerating assaults on a woman???s
right to choose abortion.
Thousands mobilized in cities throughout Alabama May 19 to demonstrate
against a bill adopted there a few days earlier outlawing virtually all
abortions.?? The law criminalizes any doctor who performs an abortion,
making the medical procedure a Class A felony punishable by up to 99
years in prison.
Join demonstrations being organized on May 21 and 25 in cities across
the country to protest attempts to outlaw abortion!
This is about more than the Alabama ban. Since the U.S. Supreme Court???s
decision legalizing abortion in 1973, opponents of women???s rights have
chipped away at our access to abortion. Waiting periods, parental
consent laws, unnecessary requirements imposed on clinics, restrictive
time limits and other arbitrary regulations have been put in place in
state after state.
Missouri legislators passed a law May 17 that would ban abortions if a
fetal heartbeat is detected. Similar laws have been passed in Georgia,
Kentucky, Mississippi and Ohio. In Texas, the House of Representatives
just approved a bill barring local governments from contracting with
abortion providers or their affiliates ??? even for services like sexual
health education and contraception.
Defending the right to choose abortion is fundamental to a woman???s
control of her own life and to winning full social, economic and
political equality. This is essential to strengthening the unity of the
working class to fight against the unrelenting assaults of the employers
and their government.
There is majority support for this right in the U.S. We must continue to
mobilize in independent public street actions. Advice that we should
rely on Democratic or Republican party capitalist politicians is a dead
end. The assault on abortion rights is bi-partisan.
The fight for the right of women to family planning, including safe and
secure birth control and abortion, is essential to winning women???s
emancipation.
And it is a key question for the working class worldwide. Large
outpourings of women in South Korea, Ireland, Argentina and elsewhere
show support for the right of women to choose whether and when to have
an abortion is growing and it can be won. Central to the fight is the
organization and mobilization of women and all working people
independent of the bosses and their parties.
The May 21 actions should be the beginning of continued protests that
will win growing numbers to the press for women???s right to equal
protection under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. This means that
no government should be permitted to interfere with anyone???s right to
determine their own health care and family planning.
In This Issue
Front Page Articles ???Join Protests for a Woman???s Right to Abortion!
???Washington sends carrier fleet to Mideast, threatens Iran
???US hands off Venezuela! US hands off Cuba!
???Democrat witch hunt against Trump attacks workers??? rights
???Join in effort to go over the top in ???Militant???, books, fund drive!
???ACLU, National Lawyers Guild back ???Militant??? fight against ban
???US-China rulers??? trade dispute part of broader rivalry in Pacific
Feature Articles ???Roundup: Uber drivers strike for wages, respect and a
union
Also In This Issue ???Brutality of British rule in India reflected in
Amritsar massacre
???Albany forum panel discusses fight against police brutality
???New York City Hall moves to slash funds for public libraries
???Working class is the defender of learning and culture
???Farmers organize aid for flood-stricken Nebraskans
???Socialist Workers Party to host June 13-15 Active Workers Conference in
Ohio
???May Day brigade volunteers aid farmers in Cuba
???Campaign to expand reach of ???Militant,??? books, fund April 6 ??? May
28
(week five)
Editorials ???Bring ???Militant???, books, fund drive home!
On the Picket Line ???Amid construction boom, crane collapse in Seattle
kills 4 people
???Cedars-Sinai hospital workers picket over staffing, conditions
Books of the Month ???The class struggle is the driving force of US and
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degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of
moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the
evidence. ???
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