#National Abortion And Reproductive Rights Action League

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The first thing to remember about the damage done by the US supreme court this June and the June before is that each majority decision overturns a right that we had won. We had won a measure of student debt relief thanks to the heroic efforts of debt activists since 2011. We had won reproductive rights protection 50 years ago with Roe v Wade, and we won wetlands protection with the Clean Water Act around the same time. We had implemented affirmative action, AKA a redress of centuries of institutionalized inequality, step by step, in many ways over the past 60-plus years. We had won rights for same-sex couples and queer people in a series of laws and decisions.

What this means is that the right wing of the US supreme court is part of a gang of reactionaries engaging in backlash. It also means we can win these things back. It will not be easy, but difficult is not impossible. This does not mean that the decisions are not devastating, and that we should not feel the pain. The old saying “don’t mourn, organize” has always worked better for me as “mourn, but also organize”. Defeat is no reason to stop. Neither is victory a reason to stop when victory is partial or needs to be defended. You can celebrate victories, mourn defeats and keep going.

Each of those victories was hard-won, often by people who began when the rights and protections they sought seemed inconceivable, then unlikely, then remote, and so goes the road of profound change almost every time. To win environmental protections, the public had to be awakened to the interconnectedness, the vulnerability and the value of a healthy natural world and our inseparability from it. To win marriage equality for same-sex couples and equal protection for queer people involved changing beliefs, which was achieved not just by campaigns but by countless LGBTQ+ people courageously making themselves visible and audible in their communities.

To recognize the power of this change requires a historical memory. A memory of rivers catching fire and toxic products being dumped freely in the 1960s. Of laws and guidelines treating queer people as criminal or mentally ill or both in ways that terrorized them and made them largely invisible to the public eye. Of women dying of or damaged by illegal abortions or leading the bleak lives to which unwanted pregnancies consigned them. Of the way the Ivy League universities in particular were virtually all white and all male into the 1970s. Of how inequality was so normalized that first people had to see and believe that women and Bipoc people should have equal rights and access to and a role in the places of power that decide the fate of each of us, the nation and the world. All that changed – not enough, of course, but a lot.

Memory is a superpower, because memory of how these situations changed is a memory of our victories and our power. Each of these victories happened both through the specifics of campaigns to change legislation but also through changing the public imagination. The supreme court can dismantle the legislation but they cannot touch the beliefs and values. We still believe in these rights. We still recognize the harm and the destruction they were meant to prevent. If you didn’t believe that equal access and rights were wrong yesterday or last year, you don’t have to believe it now. Not just because those rights were denied by six justices, at least four of whom are so utterly corrupt in how they got their seats or what they’ve done while seated that they should be forced to resign.

Last year’s attack on reproductive rights has produced its own backlash, with many states working to protect those rights, many elections seemingly pivoting on voter outrage about the Republican party’s brutality toward and hatred of women, and Republicans scurrying away from their own achievement and its hideous impacts. If the Republican party deserves admiration for anything, it’s for their long view, understanding of strategy and tenacity.

The building up of an illicit rightwing supreme court took many years, and took fundamentalist Christians holding their noses to vote for Donald Trump because they understood that meant getting the justices to overturn Roe v Wade. It meant building power from the ground up to take state legislatures to gerrymander electoral maps and sticking vicious clowns like Jim Jordan into bizarrely tailored districts. It meant chipping away at voting rights, achieved in part by the supreme court’s attack on the Voting Rights Act in 2013 and its 2010 Citizens United decision that let a filthy tsunami of corporate dark money into electoral politics, thereby overturning two of its own earlier decisions.

While each of the issues under attack need their own campaigns, voting rights and free and fair elections are crucial to all of them. Don’t forget that the only reason we have such a conservative government, including the supreme court, is voter suppression. If we truly had equal access to the ballot, American voters would choose more progressive candidates and pass more progressive legislation. That’s why what the public wants, believes and values so often differs from what the politicians chosen by dark money and voter suppression give us.

One of the striking features of recent years is the baldfaced Republican effort to prevent Black people in particular, but also young, poor and other non-white demographics from voting. Baldfaced because it acknowledges that they are unpopular and that they’ve given up the goal of being in power because they represent the majority. As they become more marginalized through their own extreme and unpopular views, they have to use more extreme means – now including trying to steal and overturn elections – to hold onto power.

This is as true of climate action as anything else: a new Yale 360 poll shows that “57% of registered voters support a US president declaring global warming a national emergency if Congress does not take further action” and “74% support regulating carbon dioxide as a pollutant.” The problem isn’t the people. It’s the power, and history shows us that when we come together with ferocious commitment to a shared goal we can be more powerful than institutions and governments. The right would like us to feel defeated and powerless. We can feel devastated and still feel powerful or find our power. This is not a time to quit. It’s a time to fight.

Rebecca Solnit is a Guardian US columnist. Her most recent books are Recollections of My Nonexistence and Orwell’s Roses

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Regional Background- Argentina

Argentina was colonized in the 16th century by the Spanish, before which the area that makes up the country today had roughly 300,000 people from the Chaco, Puelche, Tehuelche, Querandi, Diaguita, and the Incan empire (Calvert). Often, Spanish colonizers would marry indigenous women, since few Spanish women made the voyage from Spain. In 1806, Argentina launched an independence movement to escape Spanish governance. A few years later in 1808, a civil war broke out, splitting into two governments: the Napoleonic government, put into place by Napoleon and led by Joseph Bonaparte, and the Patriotic Juntas government, in the name of Ferdinand VII and aided by the British. By 1810, an autonomous government was established and declared independent in 1816, named the United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata, a conglomerate of different provinces (Calvert). By 1820, there were 2 main political parties, the revolutionary government in Buenos Aires, and the League of Free Peoples along the Río de la Plata. Both organizations soon collapsed, but Buenos Aires remained an important city for its ties to international relations. By then, each providence had an established military-political regime, including Buenos Aires, where the Party of Order had been established. During this era, a war began between Brazil and Argentina, all while there was an attempt to unify the providences within Argentina (Calvert). This attempt to unify the government slowly failed as the war progressed, and Argentina began to lose, Juan Manuel de Rosas was elected governor in an attempt to fix the mess that had accumulated with foreign relations and politics, in addition to the war. After a while, he became dictator, and a secret police group was started. He was overthrown in 1852, and soon after, unification was set into motion. In 1890, there was an inflation crisis that caused the birth of the Radical Civic Union, which allowed social unrest to spread further than before. There began to be calls for social and economic reform, and as a depression hit Argentina in 1930, the president was removed from office (Calvert). Soon after, World War II began, and Argentina stayed neutral until the president declared war on Germany in 1945. After the war, the inflation issues returned, which heavily impacted the middle and lower classes (Calvert). As for the involvement of women in government history and feminist movements, in 1900, the National Council of Women began to meet. It was the first women’s political organization in Argentina, uniting feminists, attempting to uphold their rights. The suffrage movement gained traction, and along the way, aided the movements for worker’s rights and education reform. In 1947, Argentinian women gained the right to vote (Hammond).  

Reproductive rights have dominated feminist politics in Argentina. The institutional fight for abortion rights was and is a difficult one in Argentina, which saw many setbacks before its eventual (partial) legalization in 2021. In Argentina, the fight to legalize abortion (and defend its legalization) can be seen as a microcosm of the feminist struggle within the Argentinian legal system.  

Mainstream (governmental) political action groups have fought for abortion legalization since at least the mid-2000s. The National Campaign for Free, Safe, and Legal Abortion first drafted and introduced a bill for abortion legalization in 2006, but it was not discussed in plenary sessions until 2018 (Ruibal and Fernandez Anderson 699). This bill was timidly allowed by then-president Mauricio Macri, who personally opposed it—it was accepted in the lower chamber and rejected in the upper (Goñi). Finally, after mass demonstrations (involving Ni Una Menos), a new bill was supported outright by then-president Alberto Fernández and was passed in both chambers (Politi and Londoño).  

During the twelve years of political stagnation between the initial official proposal and the first vote in 2018, Argentinian feminists created Ni Una Menos, a social movement against femicide. Women’s choice to have or not to have children has always been central to Ni Una Menos: it was formed after the 2015 murder of Chiara Páez, a pregnant 14-year-old killed by her boyfriend after she refused to get an abortion (Luengo 39).  

The movement to legalize abortion also includes a movement towards a separation of church and state. Pro-abortion legalization demonstrators use green handkerchiefs as their symbol (thus the movement is known as the Marea Verde, “Green Tide”), and pro-separation demonstrators use their symbol, an orange handkerchief (Felitti 197). Many protestors wore both colors during marches and demonstrations.  

Javier Milei, who succeeded Fernández as president in December 2023, has opposed both the separation of church and state and the legalization of abortion and has combined them by using Christian rhetoric to oppose abortion (Felitti 197; Belgrano 5–6). He considers feminism (including support for abortion) to fall under a broad group of currents he calls la Casta, “the Caste” or “the Breed,” along with scientists and gay rights activists. Members of his party introduced a law that would recriminalize abortion in 2024 (Lawmakers), and mass protests have been staged throughout 2024 against him (Phillips and Iglesia; “Argentina’s Police Step Up”).

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The National Harm Reduction Coalition recognizes the Reproductive Justice movement as foundationally important to the Harm Reduction movement. What parallels to harm reduction concepts do you take away from the video above?

Here is an excerpt from an in-depth article on the concept of Reproductive Justice, written by Loretta Ross in 2017 (free download available here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322536609_Reproductive_Justice_as_Intersectional_Feminist_Activism

What is Reproductive Justice? In June 1994, twelve black women working in the reproductive health and rights movement birthed the concept of reproductive justice at a pro-choice conference on health care reform in Chicago. We created “reproductive justice” because we believed that true health care for women needed to include a full range of reproductive health services. While abortion is one primary health issue, we knew that abortion advocacy alone inadequately addressed the intersectional oppressions of white supremacy, misogyny, and neoliberalism. From the perspective of African American women, any health care plan must include coverage for abortions, contraceptives, well-woman preventive care, pre- and postnatal care, fibroids, infertility, cervical and breast cancer, infant and maternal morbidity and mortality, intimate partner violence, HIV/AIDS, and other sexually transmitted infections. In simplest terms, we spliced together the concept of reproductive rights and social justice to coin the neologism, “reproductive justice.”

“The 12 women and their affiliations at the time who became the founding mothers of the concept of reproductive justice were: 

Toni M. Bond Chicago Abortion Fund 

Reverend Alma Crawford Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice 

Evelyn S. Field National Council of Negro Women 

Terri James American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois 

Bisola Maringay National Black Women’s Health Project, Chicago Chapter 

Cassandra McConnell Planned Parenthood of Greater Cleveland 

Cynthia Newbille National Black Women’s Health Project (now Black Women’s Health Imperative) 

Loretta J. Ross Center for Democratic Renewal 

Elizabeth Terry National Abortion Rights Action League of Pennsylvania 

“Able” Mabel Thomas Pro-Choice Resource Center, Inc. 

Winnette P. Willis Chicago Abortion Fund 

Kim Youngblood National Black Women’s Health Project" 

https://www.sistersong.net/

SisterSong is a Reproductive Justice advocacy organization that is fighting for the legal right to bodily autonomy. More information on their advocacy and legal work available on their website (linked above), and on the ACLU website:

WHAT'S AT STAKE

“Georgia physicians, reproductive health care providers, and advocates filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of Fulton County on June 26, 2022 bringing a state constitutional challenge against H.B. 481, a law banning abortion at approximately six weeks of pregnancy — just two weeks after a person’s first missed period and before many people even know they are pregnant. This lawsuit comes one week after a federal appeals court allowed Georgia’s six-week ban to take effect for the first time since it was passed in 2019, causing an immediate, devastating crisis as clinics were forced to turn away patients in waiting rooms across the state and to cancel many upcoming appointments.”

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NARAL Changes Name to National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws #abortion #naral #plannedparenthood #prochoice #prolife

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Yea, we’re headed out with our wallets open in the wind this weekend too. But as we did previously in 2016 and 2015, we suggest, if you’re comfortable enough as a vagabond of the western world, please consider donating a fraction of this week’s discretionary income to one of the worthy organizations listed below…that way, when you scroll your uglies into Fuckin’ Record Reviews’ BEST REASONS TO WRITE FUCKIN’ RECORD REVIEWS IN 2017 and revisit BEST REASONS TO WRITE FUCKIN’ RECORD REVIEWS IN 2016, BEST REASONS TO WRITE FUCKIN’ RECORD REVIEWS IN 2015 and 2014 and 2013, you won’t feel as bad about yourself as you normally do. Someone, somewhere will give thanks.  Thanks!

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COALITION TO STOP GUN VIOLENCE: “CSGV’s guiding principle is simple. We believe that all Americans have a right to live in communities free from gun violence.”

SECULAR COALITION OF AMERICA: “Our mission is to increase the visibility of and respect for nontheistic viewpoints in the United States, and to protect and strengthen the secular character of our government as the best guarantee of freedom for all.”

NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS: “What started as a small group of families gathered around a kitchen table in 1979 has blossomed into the nation’s leading voice on mental health. Today, we are an association of hundreds of local affiliates, state organizations and volunteers who work in your community to raise awareness and provide support and education that was not previously available to those in need.”

PLANNED PARENTHOOD: “In October 2016, Planned Parenthood turned 100 years strong. Planned Parenthood was founded on the revolutionary idea that women should have the information and care they need to live strong, healthy lives and fulfill their dreams — no ceilings, no limits. Learn more about how 100 years of care, education, and activism have changed everything. Today, Planned Parenthood is a trusted health care provider, an informed educator, a passionate advocate, and a global partner helping similar organizations around the world. Planned Parenthood delivers vital reproductive health care, sex education, and information to millions of women, men, and young people worldwide.”

CLINIC VEST PROJECT: “The mission of the Clinic Vest Project is to provide FREE clinic escort vests to groups that service facilities that support the full range of reproductive health options including safe and legal abortion.”

U.S. COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS (USCRI): “For over 100 years, we have advanced the rights and lives of those who have lost or left their homes. We believe we have a shared responsibility to clear obstacles and uncover opportunities for people everywhere. So, when lives are uprooted by force or by choice, we fight alongside those on the path to independence.”

THE TREVOR PROJECT: “The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) young people ages 13-24.”

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION (ACLU): “The ACLU is non-profit and non-partisan. We do not receive any government funding. Member dues and contributions and grants from private foundations and individuals pay for the work we do. The ACLU, with headquarters in New York City, litigates across the nation and all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Our Washington, D.C., legislative office lobbies the U.S. Congress. We use strategic communications to educate the public about issues. And the ACLU has expanded its reach by applying international human rights standards in our complex Post 9/11 world. A number of national projects address specific civil liberties issues: AIDS, capital punishment, lesbian and gay rights, immigrants’ rights, prisoners’ rights, reproductive freedom, voting rights, women’s rights and workplace rights.”

NATIONAL ABORTION AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ACTION LEAGUE (NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA): “NARAL Pro-Choice America uses numerous tactics to lobby for liberalized access to abortion, both in the U.S. and elsewhere. It sponsors lawsuits against governments and hospitals, donates money to politicians supportive of abortion rights through its political action committee, and organizes its members to contact members of Congress and urge them to support NARAL’s positions.”

THE JEREMY WILSON FOUNDATION MUSICIANS’ EMERGENCY HEALTHCARE FUND: “…a safety net for musicians and their families when facing debilitating medical crisis. The JWF creates better access to resources and information to help improve the state of musicians’ health and healthcare, and, in turn, their careers and financial and overall well-being.”

SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: “Your gift will help win justice on behalf of those who have no other champion, expose and fight the hate that thrives in our country, and provide tolerance education materials free of charge to schools across our nation.”

NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS: “The National Network of Abortion Funds works to make sure that all people can get the abortions they seek. If you are seeking help paying for an abortion, we are here today to help you get what you need. The local abortion funds in our organization help people pay for abortions they can’t otherwise afford.”

EMILY’S LIST: “We elect pro-choice Democratic women to office.”

BRADY CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: “The mission of the Brady organization is to create a safer America for all of us that will lead to a dramatic reduction in gun deaths and injuries. Of the 32,000 people who die from gun violence in this country each year, how many could be saved? Brady has announced the bold goal to cut the number of U.S. gun deaths in half by 2025, based on an innovative and exciting strategy that centers on the idea of keeping guns out of the wrong hands through three impact-driven, broadly engaging campaigns: (1) a policy focus to “Finish the Job” so that life-saving Brady background checks are applied to all gun sales; (2) to “Stop ‘Bad Apple’ Gun Dealers” – the 5 percent of gun dealers that supply 90 percent of all crime guns; and (3) to lead a new national conversation and change social norms around the real dangers of guns in the home, to prevent the homicides, suicides, and unintentional shootings that happen every day as a result.”

WFMU: the premier “…listener-supported, non-commercial radio station broadcasting at 91.1 Mhz FM in Jersey City, NJ, right across the Hudson from lower Manhattan. It is currently the longest running freeform radio station in the United States.”

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Abortion Organizations

Roe v Wade has not gotten rid of abortions. It's gotten rid of safe ones. This has put so many lives at risk and these people do not care. They don't see life as worth it untill it starts bringing in an income they can tax. Thankfully there are still organizations who continue to fight for Abortion Rights. The companies below have asked for support in providing access to abortion for women in those states that will ban it. I have also linked the website in which has all the links in one place. I'm currently still looking for more ways to aid women in other countries where abortion is still illegal. If anyone has any information please either private message me or leave a note so i can look into it further.

Stay safe everyone xx

Organizations to donate to:

Planned Parenthood, National Network of Abortion Funds, NARAL ( National Abortion Rights Action League, Centre for Reproductive rights

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[“At that time there were three different kinds of abortion rights movements. There were “single-issue” abortion rights groups, like the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) and the National Organization for Women (NOW) abortion rights committee. These groups had one focus: keeping abortion safe and legal, and trying to fight anti-abortion strategies to limit access. Then there was International Planned Parenthood, which was very far from the front-line service organization known as Planned Parenthood today. International Planned Parenthood was involved in population control, programs funded by first-world countries to limit birth rates in the global south without empowering women to make their own informed decisions about whether or not to have children. So, just as many women were forced into motherhood by law and custom around the world and in the U.S., global population control kept women from motherhood through methods like sterilization—a widespread and diverse series of programs to sterilize mostly Black and Brown women from poor countries, often without informed consent. For radicals supporting abortion rights, forced sterilization was the flip side of the issue.

This was the original source of the concept of reproductive rights, the third type of abortion rights movements and a political analysis that supported abortion rights for women who did not want to carry pregnancies to term, while opposing sterilization without consent for women who did want to have children.”]

Let The Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP, New York, 1987-1993, by Sarah Schulman

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Back alleys = dumpsters

CHICAGO [November 5, 1989] — Responding to a national day of actions called for by ACT NOW, a nationwide AIDS activist network, ACT UP/Chicago and the Emergency Clinic Defense Coalition (ECDC) sponsored a demonstration held Friday, October 6 [1989], 1989 in downtown Chicago to support gay and lesbian rights and reproductive freedom.

Using street theater as the centerpiece of the action, the demonstrators reportedly chanted "back alleys are for dumpsters, closets are for clothes!" They then paraded a "freedom bed" containing lesbian, gay and straight couples making love as they lampooned the reactions of Senator Jesse Helms, "ardent anti-choice, anti-gay" state legislator Penny Pullen, Pro-Life Action League head Joseph Scheidler, the Pope and the Supreme Court.

The purpose of the dramatic display was to decry the interference of right-wing legislators in the lives of all people, and to connect issues of reproduction, sexuality and AIDS, according to ACT UP/Chicago members. "There are legal parallels between AIDS and abortion rights, particularly with the Hardwick and Webster Supreme Court decisions which affect sexual and reproductive privacy," said Carol Jonas, a spokeswoman for both ACT UP and ECDC, in a telephone conversation with OutWeek. "And our other parallel demands include free and universal health care and an end to racism and sexism."

After the performance, participants marched downtown handing out condoms with messages attached such as "put this on the penis of your choice" and "a fashion accessory that goes great with nothing."

— Keith Miller, OutWeek Magazine No. 20, November 5, 1989, p. 28.

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With the release of Unplanned in Canada this weekend, Radio Teopoli thought it would be appropriate to re-air this program of another Ex-Abortionist and Ex-Atheist who is now part of the Pro-Life Movement. #MiraclesHappen #AllYouGottaDoIsPray

Enjoy Unplanned this weekend and don't forget to tune in. Details below:  

Radio Teopoli, AM530 wants you to join Catholics all around the world celebrating the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time by tuning into our regular Saturday program on AM530 at 9pm EST this Sat. July 13th with a special presentation from Lighthouse Catholic Media titled: Aborting America: The Story of an Ex-Abortionist and Ex-Atheist BERNARD NATHANSON

Bernard Nathanson was an American medical doctor from New York who helped to found the National Abortion Rights Action League, but then later became an acclaimed pro-life activist. He gained national attention by becoming one of the founding members of the National Abortion Rights Action League, now known as NARAL Pro-Choice America. He worked with Betty Friedan and others for the legalization of abortion in the United States. He was also for a time the director of the Center for Reproductive and Sexual Health New York's largest abortion clinic. Nathanson has written that he was responsible for more than 75,000 abortions throughout his pro-choice career.

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Amy Coney Barrett confirmed to Supreme Court by GOP senators

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Amy Coney Barrett confirmed to Supreme Court by GOP senators

The Senate on Monday confirmed Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court in the most partisan confirmation vote for a justice in modern American history, securing a 6-3 conservative majority widely expected to expand gun rights and permit new restrictions on abortion.

No Democratic senator supported Barrett’s confirmation — the first time since the mid-1800s that a Supreme Court nominee has not received any votes from the opposing party. The final vote was 52-48.

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6:19 AM, Oct. 27, 2020An earlier version of this article quoted Ilya Shapiro of the Cato Institute as referring to President Trump’s appointments of “contextualists.” He said “textualists.”

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Confirmed: Amy Coney Barrett is named to the Supreme Court

The U.S. Senate has confirmed Amy Coney Barrett as a Supreme Court justice in a partisan 52-48 vote, just days before the presidential election.

Barrett, who will take the seat of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg just days before the presidential election and after millions of Americans have already cast their ballots, is scheduled to be sworn in by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. in a private ceremony Tuesday at the Supreme Court, the court announced. She took a separate constitutional oath in a ceremony with Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday evening at the White House.

Hoping to galvanize voters before the Nov. 3 election, Republican senators pushed the nomination through at a pace unmatched in 45 years.

But with Barrett’s confirmation coming four years after Republicans refused to consider President Obama’s nominee, Judge Merrick Garland, during an election year, Democrats predicted a backlash for what they viewed as a second Supreme Court seat snatched by Republicans.

President Trump’s third appointment to the bench ensures that his impact on the high court will live well past his presidency. In addition to abortion and gun ownership, the newly reinforced conservative court could leave its legacy on LGBTQ equality, voting rights and affirmative action. Barrett will be seated in time to hear any potential 2020 election disputes and the Nov. 10 oral arguments in the latest GOP-backed lawsuit seeking to invalidate the Affordable Care Act.

“People are in for a rude awakening in terms of what this court is about to do to roll back the clock on some stuff that we pretty much think we already agree upon,” Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) said in Democrats’ all-night talk-a-thon on the Senate floor to protest the nomination.

With Barrett’s confirmation, the coming term will present the most conservative Supreme Court relative to the American people since the 1930s, according to Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the law school at UC Berkeley.

In the past two decades, liberal rulings in the Supreme Court typically were possible only when a Republican-appointed justice — such as Roberts or Justice Anthony M. Kennedy — sided with the court’s four liberals.

“It will become so much less likely that we will have a liberal victory,” Chemerinsky said, because “the liberals now need to get two rather than one.”

Only seven Supreme Court vacancies have arisen within six months before a presidential election, according to a government report. Only two of those vacancies were filled by the Senate before the election — with Barrett and, in 1916, Louis Brandeis. In the other cases, the Senate rejected the nomination and tabled it until later, or action was otherwise taken after election day.

Democrats accused Republicans of violating the precedent they set in 2016 after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in February of that year. Until Ginsburg’s death Sept. 18, some key Republicans, including Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), had promised they would not fill a seat during an election year.

But faced with the rare opportunity to dramatically tip the balance of the court, Republicans argued that this vacancy was different than Scalia’s because in 2016 the Senate and White House were controlled by different parties.

They praised Barrett’s academic record and judicial temperament. Barrett, 48, was a clerk for Scalia and a Notre Dame law professor before her appointment to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. She will be the fifth woman to serve on the Supreme Court, the first mother of school-aged children and the only justice who did not attend an Ivy League school.

“I came to the Senate with the hope of putting judges like Amy Coney Barrett on the bench: thoughtful, intelligent men and women with a consummate command of the law and, most of all, with a clear understanding that the job of a judge is to interpret the law, not make the law,” said Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.).

Pressed by Democrats during her confirmation hearing about reproductive rights, Barrett acknowledged her personal opposition to abortion but said those views would not have an impact on her legal decisions. Still, Republicans made clear that they were proud to support a nominee who opposed the landmark Roe vs. Wade decision.

“This is the most openly pro-life judicial nominee to the Supreme Court in my lifetime. This is an individual who has been open in her criticism of that illegitimate decision Roe v. Wade,” said Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.).

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has made no secret that he views the courts as his top priority, pledging to “leave no vacancy behind.”

Barrett will be the 220th judge confirmed by the Senate in Trump’s term, including three justices and 53 appellate judges. As of this week, there were only two appellate vacancies: Barrett’s old position at the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and a seat on the 1st Circuit created by the death Monday of Judge Juan R. Torruella.

The White House has already identified a new nominee for Barrett’s old seat, and there is no doubt Senate Republicans will try to approve the candidate by the end of the year.

“Trump’s appointments of youthful originalists and textualists … will have a long-standing impact,” said Ilya Shapiro, director of the Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies at the libertarian Cato Institute.

While Republicans for years have used the importance of the courts as a rallying cry for conservative voters, Democrats have not done so until recently, and polls suggest the matter has become increasingly important to liberal voters.

If Democrats win control of the White House and the Senate in next week’s election, progressives will immediately confront Democratic leaders with demands to add seats to the Supreme Court and fill them with liberals. Democratic lawmakers, even those who have resisted such calls in the past, are not ruling it out.

Republicans “expect that they’re going to be able to break the rules with impunity, and when the shoe maybe is on the other foot, nothing’s going to happen,” said Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), who caucuses with Democrats and has typically been viewed as opposed to changing Senate rules.

But previous attempts to add seats, notably by President Franklin Roosevelt, have failed. And to add seats, Democrats would almost certainly need to change Senate rules to eliminate the filibuster for passing legislation.

Democrats boycotted last week’s committee vote on Barrett in protest but had little ability to stop her confirmation because of the narrow GOP majority in the Senate.

Vice President Mike Pence, who had been expected to preside over the Senate vote, did not participate after Democrats demanded he avoid the chamber following several COVID-19 cases among his staff.

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The last time a justice was confirmed without a single vote from the opposing party was in 1869, according to National Journal. Justice Brett Kavanaugh received one Democratic vote during his 2018 confirmation, from Sen. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia.

Two Republicans — Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine — had opposed the GOP effort to confirm Barrett so close to election day. Collins voted no on Barrett’s confirmation, but Murkowski voted yes because she didn’t think Barrett should be held responsible for the Senate Republican effort to confirm her.

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NARAL Changes Name to National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws #abortion #naral #plannedparenthood #prochoice #prolife

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KISS AWAY 5: Ooh, see the fire is sweepin' our very street today

PIOUS FAULTS Old Thread (Feel It Records - 2018)

The 2016 Tenth Court cassette revealed these Brisbane darbies to be a decent thrusk core battalion (yea that’s what i wrote, thrusk), but so what, there’s pretty much one on every ask-a-punk corner these days. THIS, on the other hand, is a significant level UP. The guitar is far more doinky, the hyperisms careening around in an almost fusionoid abandon (“Worship The Surface I”), and the songs possess a third-stone-from-the-sun-o-mind. At one point I forgot what I was listening to - you’ll see, it’ll eventually happen to you - and I was gripped by an unsettling familiarity…wait, is this Saccharine Trust? Sure, it’s easy to reference ‘em, as the Feel It Records bio does - along with Spike In Vein (!), Dry Rot and NASA Space Universe (yay!) - but by the time Pious Faults gets to “Field”, it’s as if Jack Brewer and Joe Baiza stepped into the  room following the Worldbroken sessions. Uncanny, and as unlikely as convincingly “sounding” “like” Jandek…I don’t mean to slight these guys one iota, inspiration is the sincerest form of flattening, this a great record, AND if they’d do an improv alb along the lines of We Became Snakes next, Feeding Tube would probably pay for it. 

Most importantly: touring the USA RIGHT NOW (August 2018-September 2018)!!!

Buy Old Threads at the Feel It Records Shop

BEST REASONS TO WRITE FUCKIN’ RECORD REVIEWS IN 2018 presents… 

GIMME SHELTER: A SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR THE RESISTANCE!

KISS AWAY 1:  A storm is threat'ning our very life today (THE ART GRAY NOIZZ QUINTET)

KISS AWAY 2: If I don’t get some shelter (BRABRABRA)

KISS AWAY 3: Oh yeah, I’m gonna fade away! (SPIRITUAL CRAMP)

KISS AWAY 4: War, children, it’s just a shot away (MIKE COOPER & TASOS STAMOU

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EMILY’S LIST: “We elect pro-choice Democratic women to office.”

DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA

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SWING LEFT: 2018 Control of the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NATIONAL ABORTION AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ACTION LEAGUE (NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA): “NARAL Pro-Choice America uses numerous tactics to lobby for liberalized access to abortion, both in the U.S. and elsewhere. It sponsors lawsuits against governments and hospitals, donates money to politicians supportive of abortion rights through its political action committee, and organizes its members to contact members of Congress and urge them to support NARAL’s positions.”

Previously on Fuckin’ Record Reviews:

…our Summer 2017 diversion: Best Reasons To Write Fuckin’ Record Reviews in 2017 presents: TRAMPLED UNDER FOOT

…our Fall 2016 diversion: Best Reason To Write Fuckin’ Record Reviews in 2017 presents…ELECTED!

…our Summer 2016 diversion…Best Reasons To Write Fuckin’ Record Reviews In 2016 presents…THIS AIN’T THE SUMMER OF LOVE

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Really recommend this article from last year. The House of Representatives just voted to criminalize abortions that occur after 20 weeks, like this one. (The bill still has to pass in the Senate before it becomes law.)

Learn more / donate: You can donate to Dr. Hern and the Boulder Abortion Clinic from the article here. You can learn more about or donate to NARAL Pro-Choice America (the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League) here. You can learn more about or donate to Planned Parenthood here.

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NARAL at AIPAC: And reproductive justice for some? Even as pro-justice activists were celebrating the fact that many Democratic politicians-- including the main 2020 presidential hopefuls--have skipped this year’s AIPAC conference in DC, a national campaign was hastily being launched to urge Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL (National Abortion Rights Action League) and Amy Everitt (California head of NARAL) not to speak there. Source: NARAL at AIPAC: And reproductive justice for some?

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Black History Month 2017

Planned Parenthood strives to create a world where sexual and reproductive health care is accessible, affordable, and compassionate — no matter what.

Black women have always championed reproductive freedom and the elimination of racism and sexism as an essential element of the struggle toward civil rights. This Black History Month, Planned Parenthood honors the resilience of Black women like Dr. N. Louise Young and Dr. Thelma Patten Law,  two of the first Black women health care providers at Planned Parenthood — and the resistance of women like Angela Davis who continue to fight for the full dignity, autonomy and the humanity of all women.

In commemoration of Black History Month each year, we lift up and celebrate those who have defied their time and circumstances to become Dream Keepers and freedom fighters. #100YearsStrong of Planned Parenthood could not be possible without the vision, tenacity and determination of those who have kept and protected the dream of reproductive freedom, justice and autonomy.

The 2017 Dream Keepers

Ida B. Wells-Barnett Journalist, Civil Rights Activist

Ida B. Wells-Barnett was the most prominent Black woman journalist of the late 19th and early 20th century. Her research and reporting around the lynching of Black people helped to bring national attention to the crisis and pushed federal legislation to hold mobs accountable.

Marsha P. Johnson Activist, Stonewall Rioter

Marsha P. Johnson, co-founder of the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), is credited with being one of the first people to resist the police during the Stonewall Riots of 1969. On the commemorative anniversary of the riots in 1970, Johnson led protesters to the Women's Detention Center of New York chanting, "Free our sisters. Free ourselves," which demonstrated early solidarity between LGBTQ rights and anti-prison movements.

Former Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm Black Feminist, Former Presidential Candidate

In 1990, Shirley Chisholm — along with former Planned Parenthood Federation of America president Faye Wattleton, Byllye Avery, Donna Brazile, Dorothy Height, Maxine Waters, and Julianne Malveaux (among others) — formed the group African American Women for Reproductive Freedom to show their support for Roe v. Wade, doing so with what we now call a reproductive -justice framework. The former New York representative was the first African American woman elected to Congress. During her seven terms, Rep. Chisholm pioneered the Congressional Black Caucus and was an unwavering champion for women’s reproductive rights and access to health care, including abortion. In 2015, President Obama awarded Rep. Chisholm with the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award.

Dr. N. Louise Young

Dr. N. Louise Young, a gynecologist and obstetrician, opened her practice in Baltimore in 1932. She later operated a Planned Parenthood health center that was opened with the assistance of the local Urban League and other community partners.

Dr. Thelma Patten Law

Dr. Thelma Patten Law becomes one of the first Black women ob-gyns in Texas. She provided health care for more than 25 years at the Planned Parenthood Houston Health Center, which opened in 1936.

Faye Wattleton Author, Advocate for Reproductive Freedom, Former President of PPFA

In 1978, Wattleton became the youngest individual at the time and the first African American woman to serve as president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). During Wattleton’s 14--year tenure, PPFA became one of the nation’s largest charitable organizations. Under Wattleton’s leadership, the organization secured federal funding for birth control and prenatal programs; fought against efforts to restrict legal abortions; and, along with reproductive health allies, helped to legalize the sale of abortion pill RU-486 in the United States.

The Coiners of Reproductive Justice

Black women's existence has inherently challenged the "choice vs. life" argument. However the creation and coining of reproductive justice ushered in a new framework where women of color could express all of the ways their sexual and reproductive autonomy is systemically limited.

Dr. Dorothy Roberts Author, Scholar, Professor

Dorothy Roberts is an acclaimed scholar of race, gender and the law. Her books include Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century (New Press, 2011); Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare (Basic Books, 2002), and Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Pantheon, 1997) — all of which have shaped and informed scholarship around reproductive justice.

@DorothyERoberts

Monica Roberts Historian, Founder and Editor-In-Chief of TransGriot

Monica Roberts, aka the TransGriot, is a native Houstonian and trailblazing trans community leader. She works diligently at educating and encouraging acceptance of trans people inside and outside the larger African-American community and is an award-winning blogger, history buff, thinker, lecturer and passionate advocate on trans issues.

Dr. Iva Carruthers Past President of Urban Outreach Foundation, General Secretary of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference

Carruthers uses her ministry as a vehicle for addressing social issues, particularly those involving people of African descent both in the United States and abroad. She is past president of the Urban Outreach Foundation, a nonprofit, interdenominational organization that assists African and African-American communities with education, health care, and community development.

@IvaCarruthers

Rev. Dr. Alethea Smith-Withers Founder and Pastor; The Pavilion of God, Washington, DC; and Chair of the Board of Directors for Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice

Rev. Smith-Withers has been an active advocate for reproductive justice for many years. She is currently serving as the chair of the board of directors of Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC). She is the founder and pastor of The Pavilion of God, a Baptist Church in DC.  She hosts “Rev UP with Rev. Alethea”, a BlogTalkRadio show.

@RevAlethea

Rev. Dr. Susan Moore Associate Minister at All Souls Church Unitarian

Dr. Moore’s ministry has focused upon the challenges facing urban America. An HIV/AIDS and teen pregnancy prevention educator and trainer, she has worked with several community and faith-based groups, including the DC Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, Planned Parenthood, and AIDS Action Foundation. She actively advocates for a national, coordinated AIDS strategy to reduce racial disparities, lower the incidence of infection, increase access to care, and involve all stakeholders.

Bevy Smith CEO and Founder of Dinner with Bevy

A Harlem native and New York fashion fixture, Smith is outspoken about women’s empowerment and social justice. She gives back by connecting and engaging a network of top leaders to promote social change.

@bevysmith

Mara Brock Akil Screenwriter and producer and founder of Akil Productions

Mara Brock Akil is the co-creator of hit TV shows Girlfriends, The Game, and Being Mary Jane.  She is a tireless advocate of women’s health and rights.

@MaraBrockAkil

Tracy Reese American fashion designer

Relentless PPFA supporter, Reese is a board member of the Council of Fashion Designers of America.

@Tracy_Reese

Kimberlé W. Crenshaw Scholar, Professor at the UCLA and Columbia Schools of Law

Kimberlé W. Crenshaw is a feminist scholar and writer who coined the term "Intersectionality." Kimberlé  is the co-founder of the African American Policy Forum, which developed seminal research on Black women and girls and the school-to-prison pipeline and policing, including, respectively: "Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced and Underprotected" and "Say Her Name."

@SandyLocks

Angela Peoples Co-Director of GetEqual

Serving as the Co-Director of GetEqual, Angela is working to ensure that Black lives and gender justice is a guiding force in LGBTQ work.

@MsPeoples

Jazmine Walker Reproductive Justice Leader

Jazmine is a big fine woman who specializes in reproductive justice and agricultural economic development.

Her dedication to public scholarship and activism is driven by a passion to amplify feminist and reproductive justice discourse around Black women and girls, especially those in Mississippi and the broader South.

Amandla Stenberg Actress, Author

This Black queer feminist makes us look forward to the next generation of feminist leaders and thinkers.

Her YouTube video, "Don't Cash Crop My Cornrows," clapped-back against the cultural appropriation of Black fashion and style and won our hearts.

@amandlastenbergs

Charlene A. Carruthers National Director for Black Youth Project 100

Political organizer Carruthers is building a national network and local teams of young Black activists.  She is committed to racial justice, feminism, and youth leadership development.

@CharleneCac

Monica Simpson Executive Director of SisterSong National Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective

At SisterSong National Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, Simpson works to amplify and strengthen the collective voices of indigenous women and women of color to ensure reproductive justice through securing human rights. She has organized extensively against the systematic physical and emotional violence inflicted upon the minds, bodies, and spirits of African Americans with an emphasis on African-American women and the African-American LGBT community.

@SisterSong_WOC

Deon Haywood Executive Director, Women With A Vision, Inc.

Haywood works tirelessly to improve quality of life and health outcomes for marginalized women of color.  Since Hurricane Katrina, Haywood has led Women With a Vision, a New Orleans-based community organization addressing the complex intersection of socio-economic injustices and health disparities.  

@WWAVinc

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Congresswoman, D-TX 18th District

Congresswoman Jackson Lee has been a staunch supporter of Planned Parenthood and women's health.

This year she has become a valuable champion as a member of the House Judiciary Committee, where she was vocal at both hearings displaying a clear understanding of the important role Planned Parenthood health centers play in the communities they serve. She also came to the floor on several occasions and attended a Planned Parenthood’s press conference, lending her voice in the fight against backwards legislation.

@JacksonLeeTX18

Del. Stacey Plaskett Congresswoman, D-US-VI

Delegate Stacey Plaskett became a supporter of Planned Parenthood this year when she spoke out for Planned Parenthood health center patients during a Oversight and Government Reform hearing, where she is a member, commenting that she would like a Planned Parenthood health center in the Virgin Islands.

@StaceyPlaskett

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton Congresswoman, D-DC

As a fierce, passionate, Black feminist and reproductive health advocate, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton has supported Planned Parenthood unwaveringly. She also sponsored the EACH Woman Act and, in 2015, held an event with young women on abortion access.

@EleanorNorton

Rep. Joyce Beatty Congresswoman, D-OH 3rd District

Rep. Beatty has been an active supporter of women's health during her tenure in Congress, cosponsoring legislation, signing onto pro-letters and always voting in the interest of women's health.

Rep. Maxine Waters Congresswoman, D-CA 43rd District

Since arriving in office in 1990, Rep. Waters has voted in the best interest of the health of women and communities of color, making a career of addressing these issues by closing the wealth gap.