Access to Safe Abortion Is a Basic Human Right | |
“The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity. When government controls that decision for her, she is being treated as less than a fully adult human responsible for her own choices.” – Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg Today is International Safe Abortion Day – the day when individuals, organizations and governments worldwide mobilise to make their demands heard on the need to defend and protect a person’s right to safe and legal abortion; and ensure reproductive justice. The theme for this year is abortion in uncertain times. Many of us have been shocked by the United States (US) Supreme Court’s decision that overturned the landmark 1973 judgement – Roe V. Wade – earlier this year. This judgement gave women in the US, the constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy. When the conservative majority of the US Supreme Court gutted Roe V. Wade, they effectively stated that women no longer have the right to make their own reproductive decisions. In the months since, there has been global outrage to this news and we have seen many conservative US states passing extremely restrictive laws banning or severely limiting access to abortion with new attempts to introduce federal restrictions. | |
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