NEWS and ISSUES
Good News and Bad News
First, the good news: the Illinois legislature has passed the Youth Health and Safety Act, repealing the horrendous Parental Notice of Abortion (PNA) law that has caused so much harm to so many pregnant teens, and our wonderful pro-choice Governor J.B. Pritzker is sure to sign it. The new law doesn’t take effect until June 2022, so for now the Judicial Bypass Project to assist teens who for whatever reason just can’t tell their parents is still in full swing. Read more about why it was so important to repeal PNA at Human Rights Watch or at the ACLU of Illinois, watch this powerful video by Dr. Alison Cowett and read Dr. Cowett’s Op-Ed in the Chicago Sun-Times.
Emergency Protests: Overturn the Texas Abortion Vigilante law
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. Say it loud: Abortion On Demand and Without Apology. See you there … this Friday … bring your masks … and bring signs.
UPCOMING EVENTS
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Web Feeds for Women and Issues Affecting Women
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- Gender apartheid: oppression of women should be made a crime against humanity – feminist academic explains why
- Mothers have long been absent from dystopian stories. ‘Maternal cli-fi’ is changing the narrative
- Supreme Court unanimously concludes that anti-abortion groups have no standing to challenge access to mifepristone – but the drug likely faces more court challenges
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