EMERGENCY Protest for Women’s rights at Union Square NYC 11/28/15

A group of 40 or so protested in favor of safe and legal abortion at the south end of Union Square yesterday after the attack on a Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs, CO.

Sunsara Taylor of StopPatriarchy.org speaking out for women’s right to an abortion at Union Square yesterday after the recent attack on a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, CO.

A few men were also out showing support for a woman’s right to choose during a busy day at Union Square in unusually warm temps and slight rain at a rally with StopPatriarchy.org in light of recent attacks on a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, CO.

Organizers from StopPatriarchy.org handing out fliers to passers by yesterday and engaging in conversation about women’s rights to abortion. Union Square NYC

Naomi Krane of the Socialist Workers Party , “The ruling class is being forced to rein in the cops a little bit more. It’s important to keep up the protests, keep up the fight from Chicago to Minneapolis to here in NY.”

Naomi Krane of the Socialist Workers Party, speaking about Trump’s remarks on immigrants,, “We’ve been a part of keeping abortion safe and legal going back to the 1960’s. We need to organize as working people against what this system is doing to us. Women’s rights is a piece of that as is the fight to raise the minimum wage.” ” Why we need unity among working people, why the scapegoating of immigrants , Muslims damages us standing together and fighting for what we need”.

Joan from StopPatriarchy.org handing out fliers and having discussion with passers-by at Union Square on the topic of safe, legal abortion.

“Put your fists up for women’s right to abortion. ” JOIN US IN DC JANUARY 22 for the Anniversary of Roe V Wade, 410 U.S. 113, is a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of abortion. Decided simultaneously with a companion case, Doe v. Bolton, the Court ruled 7–2 that a right to privacy under the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment extended to a woman’s decision to have an abortion, but that this right must be balanced against the state’s two legitimate interests in regulating abortions: protecting women’s health and protecting the potentiality of human life. Arguing that these state interests became stronger over the course of a pregnancy, the Court resolved this balancing test by tying state regulation of abortion to the third trimester of pregnancy.

“This summer there have been 4 arson attacks against abortion clinics, none of which made the national press, said Dan Norton, a Union organizer. This attack must be fought by labor, by defenders of democratic rights, by defenders of black rights and women’s rights”. “we’ve fought all over the world even in El Salvador for a women’s right to an abortion”. “Only the woman should choose, no one else. Her and her medical provider and we defend that right to the hilt”.

I spoke with Dan Norton privately and he said, that the attack in Colorado Springs ,, “The important thing to understand is that this is part of a general offensive of reactionary terror inside of the United States against all of the oppressed”. Dan told me about a young Latino male who was shot and killed in his home by the police in Denver on Sunday. “There’s been almost nothing about this in the press”. Dan also mentioned those who were shot at at the encampment outside the 4th Precinct in Minneapolis by white supremacist.

Steve Yip of StopMassIncarceration.org

Chanting, “without this basic right, women can’t be free, abortion on Demand and Without apology” women’s rights demonstrators marched through the market place around Union square bustling with holiday shoppers.

EMERGENCY Protest for Women’s rights at Union Square NYC 11/28/15

Author: Cat April Watters

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