Abortion was ruled to be constitutional and legal in the entire U.S. 50 years ago. What do you know about what young women and people who can get pregnant are facing NOW in terms of these rights?

Circle the right answer. Hint: Some questions have more than one right answer.

1. In Idaho, if you are a young woman, late with your period, what will happen to you if you do not want to be pregnant?

a. Nothing. You can get an abortion if you decide you do not want to carry the pregnancy to term.

b. If you do not make a decision, raise the money and get an abortion within two weeks after missing your period, it will be illegal to get an abortion.

c. Anyone who helps you get an abortion after six weeks is praised for looking out for a young person needing help.

d. An abortion provider can be sued by anyone claiming a relationship to the fetus... your family, your boyfriend’s family. Even a rapist can sue, if you have not filed criminal charges against him. And if they win, they will get $20,000 and all their expenses for suing!

2. In Texas, how many women and girls of reproductive age have been unable to access abortion services in their state since September 2021 because ALL abortions are banned after six weeks?

a. 7,000

b. 70,000

c. 700,000

d. 7,000,000

3. The Supreme Court is going to make a major decision about the legal right to abortion throughout the U.S. in late spring of this year. This means…

a. It will expand abortion rights because control over whether or not to have a child is essential to women’s right to live as full human beings, follow their dreams, be good parents to the kids they already have, not be trapped in abusive relationships or poverty or for any reason they are not ready or do not want to be mothers.

b. They will not allow all these women-hating restrictions on the right to abortion because the state should not be able to force a woman to have a child against her will because that is female enslavement.

c.They have already signaled that they are likely to gut or overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark case that established women’s fundamental right to abortion nationwide. If they overturn Roe, 21 states would immediately ban or severely restrict abortion, affecting millions and millions.

d. The theocratic movement behind this assault on abortion also aims to eliminate birth control, LGBTQ rights, divorce and much more.

4. In this situation, what should I do?

a. I won’t think about it, it makes me feel sad and powerless.

b. I won’t worry, I will stay positive and I will be very careful not to move to any of those states if I don’t live in one already or get pregnant.

c. I will get angry. I will join with others to #RiseUp4AbortionRights (RiseUp4AbortionRights.org). On April 8, I will wear a green bandana to show where I stand, like our sisters in South America and Mexico who are fighting and winning the legal right to abortion. On April 9, I will hit the streets in protest. I will follow @riseup4abortionrights.

d. I will help make so much noise, like we did with the Black Lives Matter protests after George Floyd was murdered, that everybody has to take a side and every institution, even the Supreme Court, has to step back from destroying this right to abortion on demand and without apology.