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Right wing trying to generate the challenge that will overturn Roe v. Wade — militant movement needed to turn the tide

This article is featured in Breaking the Chains, a socialist perspective on women’s liberation

Earlier this month, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed House Bill 314, a near-total abortion ban, into law. The ban is the most restrictive anti-abortion law in the United States. It is also illegal.

Alabama’s abortion ban outlaws abortion at any stage in gestation and in nearly all cases. This makes it a felony to perform an abortion at any stage in pregnancy. Doctors could be sentenced to life in prison for performing an abortion. The criminalization of the abortion procedure as a Class A felony would mean doctors could face up to 99 years in prison, which is potentially decades longer than the term many rapists serve in Alabama.

Alabama’s anti-abortion law has few exceptions besides “serious health risk to the unborn child’s mother” and “the unborn child has a lethal anomaly.” There are no exceptions for cases of rape or incest.

While the right-wing forces purport to be pro-life, nothing could be further from the truth. The real and central issues are control and oppression. Women are the targets of these particular policies, but the same forces targeting us support the incarceration of poor youth and youth of color at astronomical rates. The same forces actively support or do not ever resist the detention of young immigrant children and their separation from families. They are not proponents of universal childcare or fully funded public education. They care little for the fate of those who need abortions for a variety of reasons.

People take to the streets to oppose abortion bans and restrictions

Here are just a few photos from among the many cities in which thousands come out to protest.

New York City

Mobile, Alabama

Los Angeles, California

Washington, D.C. (Photo Credit: Phil Potluck)

U.S. government breaks international law, seizing Venezuelan Embassy and arresting guests

Under international law — the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, articles 22 and 45 — a host country is prohibited from invasion or interference with another nation’s embassy, and is in fact obligated to defend it.

Nationwide tour visits 35 cities to dispel U.S. media/government lies on Venezuela

To help break the U.S. media/government blockade and offensive against Venezuela, PSL organizer and Liberation News reporter Gloria La Riva traveled across the country.

Women have actual heartbeats, demand bodily autonomy

The Supreme Court was not full of feminists when it issued its Roe ruling. In fact, it was generally reactionary and conservative. It was a sign of the movement’s strength, the pressure from below that had resonated through and shaken all of society.

Iran war crisis: What’s really going on?

The Trump administration is trying to stage a false flag crisis, similar to the Bush administration’s “weapons of mass destruction” lie that was used to start a war on Iraq in 2003, as a pretext to attack the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Workers make the world run — workers should run the world

If tomorrow the sanitation workers were to go on strike, it would rapidly create a crisis. But if Jeff Bezos doesn’t show up at Amazon tomorrow or next week or next year, if would have zero impact on operations.