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Roe at 35
Today marks the 35th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark abortion rights decision Roe v. Wade. In honor of the anniversary, the ACLU put together a video featuring interviews with ACLU staff from across the organization concerning the role of reproductive freedom in ensuring the full-range of civil liberties. If you think that access to abortion has nothing to do with gay and lesbian rights, racial justice, or immigrants' rights, think again.
A statement about today's anniversary from Louise Melling, the Director of the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project, is also online and draws important links between abortion and women's equality: With this anniversary we mark not only 35 years of reproductive freedom, but 35 years of impressive gains in the fight for women's equality....The numbers alone tell a significant piece of the story: Thirty-five years ago, there were 15 women in Congress; only 3 had ever held the office of state governor. Today, 92 women sit in Congress, including the first Madame Speaker; 26 women have served as governors; and in the current race for president, for the first time in our nation's history, a woman candidate is one of the leading contenders for the nomination of a major political party.The ACLU has also put together documents summarizing the year ahead in the courts and in Congress for reproductive rights. Last but not least, a federal appeals court in Missouri today upheld a ruling allowing women prisoners in Missouri to obtain timely, safe, and legal abortion care. Not a bad day to issue the decision if you ask me.
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