Mississippi/Albuquerque Abortion Rights Emergency

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You cannot break all the chains, except one. You cannot say you want to be free of exploitation and oppression, except you want to keep the oppression of women by men. You can’t say you want to liberate humanity yet keep one half of the people enslaved to the other half. The oppression of women is completely bound up with the division of society into masters and slaves, exploiters and exploited, and the ending of all such conditions is impossible without the complete liberation of women. All this is why women have a tremendous role to play not only in making revolution but in making sure there is all-the-way revolution. The fury of women can and must be fully unleashed as a mighty force for proletarian revolution.

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END PORNOGRAPHY AND PATRIARCHY: THE ENSLAVEMENT AND DEGRADATION OF WOMEN!

We are told that "equality for women has been won" and that "there are no limits to what girls can achieve." BULLSHIT!

Every 15 seconds a woman is beaten. Every day three to four women are killed by their partners. One out of four female college students will be raped or sexually assaulted while in college.

In recent years, pornography has become increasingly violent, cruel, degrading towards women; women are referred to as “cumdumpsters” and “fuckbuckets”; the “money shot” (ejaculation in a woman’s face) is standard; humiliating cruelty—like violent “ass-to-mouth” penetration—is normalized, and racist bigotry is sexualized. Meanwhile, the broader culture has been pornified: pole dancing is taught at gyms, “sexting” is a national phenomenon among teens, and the strip club is the accepted backdrop to “male bonding.” All this is tied in with, and reinforces, the trafficking of millions of women and girls as literal chattel in the international sex industry.

This is NOT society becoming more comfortable with sex....

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The assault on women’s right and need to simply be able to determine whether or not to have a child has reached a fever pitch in the United States. Too many of those who do uphold this basic right have been put on the defensive and will barely talk about the fundamental issue at the heart of this assault—the lives and future of women. Some even fear saying the word “abortion,” let alone upholding it as a basic right. In the face of this, Stop Patriarchy has taken the offensive. Last summer they led a 16 state, month long Abortion Rights Freedom Ride, mobilizing hundreds and reaching hundreds of thousands with the slogan, “Abortion On Demand and Without Apology!” In November, they returned to two of the places that most concentrate the assault on women's fundamental right to control their own reproduction: Mississippi and Albuquerque.

Women and men from many different perspectives have joined this effort directly or in other ways, including financially, come to its support. The Revolutionary Communist Party fully supports and commends these efforts as fulfilling a great need and calls on all those who do not want to see women enslaved to their reproduction to recognize and act on this great need.

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About the Abortion Rights Emergency:

This November, there are two key places in the country where the battle over abortion is most concentrated. From November 2-6, the last abortion clinic in the state of Mississippi will be under siege from Operation Save America, an extreme, violence-inciting, woman-hating Christian fascist organization. And on November 19, a vote will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico that could ban abortions after 20 weeks, thereby shutting down two of the four doctors in the country who openly provide abortions for women who desperately need them in the third trimester of pregnancy. Stop Patriarchy is calling for people from all over the nation to contribute your voice, time, money, creativity, and courage to stand with us in Jackson MS from October 29-Nov 6 and Albuquerque, NM from Nov 15-17.

Jackson Women's Health Organization

The three goals that were identified by Stop Patriarchy when we launched the Abortion Rights Freedom Ride are more urgent than ever. These goals were:

  1. to wage a national counter-offensive against this national war on women,

  2. to radically reset the political, ideological and moral terms so that people recognize that this is a fight over women's liberation or women's enslavement and that abortion must be available on demand and without apology,

  3. to forge a movement that relies on ourselves, not politicians or the courts, to wage massive society-wide resistance of millions of people to defeat this whole war on women.

The success of turning back this state of emergency in Mississippi and Albuquerque in November is something that everyone who cares about the future of women has a stake in. YOU are needed. Everyone must find the ways to support this effort, and everyone reading this, and everyone that you know can do something to strengthen the impact of this effort.


Abortion Rights: In a State of Emergency

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Sunsara TaylorTo those who call themselves "pro-choice" but say that “Abortion On Demand and Without Apology” is “too extreme”:

Which women do you think should apologize and feel guilty for their abortions?

Which women would you force to have children against their will?

Sunsara Taylor 


Five Things Everyone Should Know About Albuquerque's Proposed Ban on Abortions After 20 Weeks of Pregnancy

On November 19, people in the city of Albuquerque will vote on whether to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The very fact that a fundamental right of women—the right to abortion at whatever point in her pregnancy and for whatever reason she decides—can be put up for a vote is entirely illegitimate and reveals something profoundly wrong with the system that rules over us. Read more.

Albuquerque rally


Three Questions To Ask Yourself About the Assault on Abortion Rights in Jackson and Albuquerque, and The Role You Should Play

by Rigel Kane


Let Us Not Talk Falsely, the Hour Is Getting Late:
We Do Not Need a “New Underground” of Abortion Services – We Need Revolution and an Uncompromising Resistance Among Millions to Defeat the War on Women!

by Sunsara Taylor

I want to speak to something that I have heard advocated by abortion rights supporters with increasing frequency as the attacks on abortion rights escalate to a fevered pitch across this country. As abortion clinics are closed down at an alarming rate, as access to abortion is restricted beyond the reach of many poor and rural women already, and as new laws and restrictions mount, it is not uncommon to hear some of the most dedicated fighters in the pro-choice movement insist that it is time to begin developing underground networks that will be able to continue providing abortions to women even if it becomes illegal.

The first time I heard this approach advocated more than fifteen years ago at a women's conference, I found it extremely attractive because it had the appearance of defiance and determination not to be stopped by unjust and illegitimate laws. However, now when I hear this advocated I hear the air of desperation, defeat and honestly a degree of self-delusion. Read more


Abortion Rights Are at a Crossroads:
This Is NOT a Time to Lay Low—It Is Time for Massive Uncompromising Struggle!

From Sunsara Taylor and David Gunn Jr.: Across the country, people are waking up to the state of emergency facing the right to abortion... If we do not reverse this trajectory now, we will condemn future generations of women and girls to forced motherhood, to lives of open enslavement, terror, and life-crushing shame..." Read more


Some Thoughts on Our Time in Mississippi, on the Abortion Rights Freedom Ride, and Looking Forward

by Sunsara Taylor. Today, as many of the Abortion Rights Freedom Riders escorted patients and hula-hooped outside the clinic, I sat down with the director of Jackson Women's Health Organization. I told her about the threefold mission of the Abortion Rights Freedom Ride...She told me about her patients. Read more


Taking On the Anti-Abortion Siege in Albuquerque, New Mexico

Posted September 8, 2013. Albuquerque, New Mexico has become a national focal point in the struggle over abortion rights in this country because it is the city where two out of the four doctors left in the country who perform later abortions practice. As described in this article, Albuquerque was targeted for threatening and woman-hating protest by the fascist anti-abortion group Operation Rescue during mid-August and it will remain the focus of the anti-abortion movement as they work to close these abortion providers down. Albuquerque was also one of the final stops on the Abortion Rights Freedom Ride, a month-long caravan that traveled from both coasts and down the middle of the country to stand up for abortion rights this past summer. Read the article written by a member of a Revolution Club and Abortion Rights Freedom Rider


Revolution Interview with Sunsara Taylor

Abortion Rights Freedom Ride

From both coasts, and through the middle of the country

 

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The Abortion Rights Emergency—On the Ground

This article draws heavily upon and has been edited from thoughts on the Abortion Rights Freedom Ride from Sunsara Taylor. Read more

From the RCP's "A Declaration: For Women's Liberation and the Emancipation of All Humanity":

WE DECLARE: NO MORE!

Women need emancipation. Women need liberation from thousands of years of tradition’s chains. This is a declaration that stands on the clear recognition that for humanity as a whole to advance, half of humanity must be lifted from centuries of being condemned to being the property of men and pitilessly exploited, demeaned and degraded in a thousand ways.

Women are not breeders. Women are not lesser beings. Women are not objects created for the sexual pleasure of men. Women are human beings capable of participating fully and equally in every realm of human endeavor. When women are held down, all of humanity is held back. Women must win liberation, and they can only be liberated through the revolutionary transformation of the world and the emancipation of all of humanity, and through being a powerful motive force in that revolution.

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Two Concentrations of the Fight Over Abortion Rights Loom in November
Everyone Who Supports Abortion Rights Must Rally in Mississippi and Albuquerque

by Sunsara Taylor and Rigel Kane. What happens in Mississippi and Albuquerque—whether people mobilize to resist these attacks on women, including traveling to these places from across the country, or whether people stay home and “lay low”—will have tremendous implications not only for the outcome of these particular battles, but for the direction of the whole war on women. Read more


Revolution Interview: "This is one of the most special places I've ever been."

Diane Derzis, owner of the last abortion clinic in Mississippi, talks with Sunsara Taylor about legal threats to her clinic, her own abortion, anti-abortion violence, and the joy of serving women. Read the interview


Revolution Interview

Dr. Willie Parker, Doctor at the Last Abortion Clinic in Mississippi


Sunsara Taylor interviews Dr. Willie Parker, one of the two heroic abortion doctors who regularly flies to Mississippi to provide abortions at the last clinic in that state. Read more

Also: A Conversation with Dr. Willie Parker and Sunsara Taylor. October 28, 2013 at Revolution Books NYC (video)

DID YOU KNOW...

...this year there are over 300 measures introduced to further restrict abortion and shut down clinics?

...97% of rural counties have no abortion provider?

...FIVE states have only ONE abortion clinic?

...over 80% of clinics that provide abortions have experienced violence, threats, harassment?

...EIGHT abortion providers and staff have been KILLED?

Reproductive rights are in a state of emergency.

 

In this #AbortionRightsEmergency … what will you do? Sit on the sidelines? Hypothesize & criticize? Bury your head in the sand? Rely on the official political process which has buckled under the force of the anti-abortion movement? Or stand up, expose and oppose their illegitimacy, and fight unapologetically for abortion rights?! TODAY would not be a minute too soon.

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A Fetus is Not a Child
Abortion is Not Murder
Women are Not Incubators