The Supreme Court’s refusal to block the Texas law banning abortions and deputizing vigilantes to enforce it is an unprecedented intrusion into the constitutional rights of women and a stunning attack on the rule of law. This article in The Guardian is one of the best to be published about it. And here’s Justice Sotomayor’s dissent, the Tribune editorial, and Rex Huppke’s Trib column.
We’re all coming together in several emergency protests on Saturday October 2nd
• 11:30am at Daley Center in downtown Chicago — here’s the Facebook event from Planned Parenthood Illinois Action
• 2:30pm at the central square in historic Woodstock in McHenry County
• 11:00am at the Palatine Volunteer Plaza and Clock Tower, 1 IDOT, in Palatine
• 11:00am at Mike Rylko Community Park, 951 McHenry Road, in Buffalo Grove
• 10:00am at Jackman Park, 1011 Lehigh Ave, in Glenview — here’s the RSVP page at WomensMarch.com
• 3:00pm at the Porter County Courthouse, 16 E. Lincolnway, in Valparaiso— here’s the event’s Facebook page from Northwest Indiana NOW
• 11:30am at the Old State Capitol Plaza in Springfield — here’s the Facebook event from Planned Parenthood Illinois Action in Washington, and in major cities all across the country.
Note: the Illinois Handmaids will be out in force at the Chicago event — click here to RSVP.
