The Socialist Case for Abortion Rights
Thursday * November 12 * 7:30PM
UMass Campus Center * Room 162-75
Nearly 80,000 women die from unsafe abortions each year in countries around the world where abortion is illegal/inaccessible, there are no abortion providers in over 80% of counties in the US, and the cost places a huge burden on low-income women seeking to terminate a pregnancy.
Even with the Democrats in office, abortion access is under attack: the version of health care reform that just passed the House bans subsidies for health insurance plans that cover abortion, which means that low-income women covered under the plan will be unable to afford an abortion.
And, there are currently more anti-abortion "Crisis Pregnancy Centers" that deceive and intimidate than there are abortion clinics...the former receive federal funding while the latter do not!
Abortion that is legal and accessible (and that means affordable!) is necessary for women to have control over there bodies. Without this control, women cannot be equals in our society, which is why socialists stand for "free abortion on demand." We think the only person who should have a say in whether or not a woman gets an abortion is that woman herself!
Join the International Socialist Organization for a meeting on reproductive justice. It's time we stand up and say enough is enough! NOT THE CHURCH NOT THE STATE, WILL DECIDE A WOMAN'S FATE!
