STANDING UP
AGAINST the March for “Life” and
FOR Abortion on Demand and Without Apology!
IT IS TIME TO TURN THE TIDE!
Fetuses are NOT babies
Abortion is NOT murder.
Women are NOT incubators.
Break the Chains! Unleash the Fury of Women as a Mighty Force for Revolution!
Showdown Around Abortion Rights Intensifies: Stop Patriarchy Leads Defiant Protest Against the Walk for Forced Motherhood
From a member of the Revolution Club and Stop Patriarchy. As the anti-abortion movement surges forward on a wave of recently passed legislation that leaves women across the country desperate and trapped in unwanted pregnancies, the movement to End Pornography and Patriarchy: The Enslavement and Degradation of Women (StopPatriarchy.org), led a loud and spirited, uncompromising protest against the 10th annual anti-abortion march in San Francisco.
From Stop Patriarchy blog
The snow couldn’t stop us! 41st Anniversary of Roe vs. Wade day of action in New York City
Although the extreme weather prevented the New York City contingent of Stop Patriarchy from going to DC to oppose the March for “Life,” it did not stop us from taking to the streets for Abortion on Demand and Without Apology on the 41st anniversary of Roe vs. Wade. It was a bitter cold day in the city, but our spirits were high as we started the day in front of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, a Catholic church which has spearheaded the attacks on women’s right to abortion and birth control. Read more
Call to Actions in Washington DC and San Francisco
on the 41st Anniversary of Roe v. Wade:
STAND UP AGAINST the March for “Life”
and FOR Abortion on Demand and Without Apology!
from Stop Patriarchy
Wednesday, January 22
12 noon
Supreme Court
Washington, DC
Saturday, January 25
1 pm
San Francisco
Take a stand. On Wednesday, January 22, noon at the Supreme Court in DC, and on Saturday, January 25, 1 pm in San Francisco—against what truthfully should be called the "March for Forced Motherhood & Female Enslavement." Stand up for Abortion on Demand & Without Apology! Stand up for the full liberation of women! Bring truth, your joyful defiance, your creativity & morality for the liberation of women.
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Abortion Rights Are at a Crossroads: This is NOT a Time to Lay Low—It is Time for Massive Uncompromising Struggle!
by Sunsara Taylor and David Gunn | July 12, 2013
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. Women will be forced to have children they do not want, trapping them in abusive relationships, driving them into poverty, forcing them out of school, and extinguishing their dreams. Women will go to desperate and dangerous measures to terminate unwanted pregnancies, once again flooding emergency rooms and turning up dead women in cheap motels with blood caked between their legs.
We face two divergent roads: Either we seize control of the debate and reset the terms and whole trajectory of this fight; or we continue down the road of "established conventional wisdom," only to awaken before long to an unrecognizable and untenable situation for women. What each of us does matters, and matters tremendously. Read more
Media Coverage
Reproductive Rights in a State of Emergency
January 23, 2014 | Acronym TV | Dennis Trainor Jr.
Opposition Builds Against Anti-Abortion Rallies Planned in Major Cities
January 17, 2014 | Alternet | by Alyssa Figueroa
The TRUTH about Abortion, Why "Life" is a Vicious Lie, and What Kind of Society the Christian Fascists Really Want
What Is Life?
1. We are, in fact, made of "starstuff,’’ along with everything else on earth, living or not.
2. On earth, living things are typically made up of one or more living cells. And all forms of life on earth are related and are descendants of the first one-celled creatures to live on this planet.
3. All the different kinds of living creatures or organisms have in common:
- the ability to grow and process energy
- the ability to reproduce
- and the ability to encompass (make happen and "take in") change, and to pass it on over the generations.
4. Human beings have a lot in common with all the other life-forms on the planet. What makes us "different’’ is not really the things that prove we are "alive." After all, there’s a lot of "life" all around!
What makes us different, or "special," is that we have evolved to a higher degree than any other species— the ability to change the conditions of life through social means —by living and struggling in concert with other human beings during our entire lives. This— being part of human society rather than just being alive —is the essence of what makes us human beings.
What Is an Abortion and Why Women Must Have the Right to Choose
Life Cannot and Should Not Always Be Preserved
by A.S.K. | January 23, 2005
Is it true that a fetus is a form of life? Of course it is. It is made up of live cells, it is growing and processing energy, it has the capacity to mature and reproduce, it has a genetic system and so on.
Will an abortion destroy this form of life? Yes, absolutely.
Well then, isn’t an abortion killing another human being? No, absolutely not.
A fetus is not yet a human being. It is more like a seed or a sprout of a human being. It is "alive," but that is also true of all the other cells in a woman’s body. It has no life of its own yet. It is not yet a separate life from the life of the woman in whose uterus it is.
From Revolution, #239, July 17, 2011
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A Fetus Cannot Feel Pain, but a Woman Denied the Right to Abortion Suffers Intolerable Pain
Revolution • August 18, 2013
The Bible and Baby-Killing
The Right to Abortion and the Whole Direction of Society
by Bob Avakian | Revolution • August 28, 2005
In countering the attack on abortion as "killing babies"--which is one of the main lines of attack of the religious fundamentalists--we should bring out forcefully things like Psalm 137 and the book of Isaiah (for example, chapters 9 through 14 in Isaiah)....
Now, if these fundamentalist fanatics will uphold these atrocities in the Bible, including the slaughter of actual babies, then they definitely are the worst hypo-crites when they condemn others as "baby-killers." And this is especially outrageous when they hurl this accusation of "baby-killers" at women (and doctors and others who assist them) who in fact are not "killing babies" but are carrying out a medical procedure which aborts a fetus, not a separate, developed human being (I will come back to this in a minute). In this case, too, the fundamentalist fanatics have nothing to say--nothing that anyone should listen to--about "killing babies."
From the StopPatriarchy.org blog:
The “Abortion Holocaust”: A Monstrous Lie From the Christian Fascists
August 22, 2013
Religious Static: The Soundtrack of Unnecessary Tragedy
by Rigel Kane | Revolution • November 21, 2013
There is a vicious movement in the halls of power, in the churches, and on the streets that has taken hold. While some people are motivated by religion to seek an end to the plethora of injustices in the world today, the Christian fascist anti-abortion movement must be directly opposed if we are ever going to see a day when women can decide their own futures, dream unfettered, and participate equally with men in society, without fear. And ultimately, we must challenge religion itself as a method and an ideology, and dig deep into how it plays into the very real and truly horrific economic, political, and social situation we are in, here and around the world. Read more
Editor's Note: Reprinted from Successful Rebranding magazine
Pope Francis Wins Successful Rebranding Magazine "Person of the Year" Award
Revolution • January 6, 2014
When Pope Francis assumed the leadership of the Catholic Church, he took on one of the greatest rebranding challenges in recent history. Pope Francis has turned out to be what the church's adherents would call a "godsend" to a brand that had been in serious crisis....
A Central
Question of
the Revolution
A Declaration: For Women's Liberation and the Emancipation of All Humanity
Unresolved Contradictions, Driving Forces for Revolution
by Bob Avakian
BAsics 3:22
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Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America (Draft Proposal)
AUDIO: Question and Answer session with Bob Avakian—the difference between eroticism and pornography