Vol. 74/No. 35      September 20, 2010

Efforts by Operation Rescue and other antiabortion groups to shut down Planned Parenthood’s telemedicine program should be vigorously opposed. I and the other SWP candidates call on working people to defend Planned Parenthood’s efforts to expand access to abortion services to rural women.

Since the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, a woman’s right to choose abortion has been under sustained attack by successive Democratic and Republican administrations on both the state and federal level. Many of these attacks have been aimed at limiting access to abortion.

Access to safe, legal abortions is a precondition for equality and liberation of women. Women’s rights and workers’ rights are under attack as the depression drags on. We need to build a movement that will organize the power of the working class to defend the rights and the living standards of all workers. Defending a woman’s right to choose means she can control what she will do with her life, including whether or when to have children.
 
 
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