The National Online March for Reproductive Rights, Health and Justice
The Issues
Women won historic numbers of seats in Congress in the November election. Voters across the political spectrum supported women’s reproductive health, rights, and justice, and defeated candidates who trivialized women’s safety. Florida rejected a ballot measure that would outlaw public funding for abortions.
But many state legislatures and members of Congress continue to attack access to birth control and abortion care, and cut funds for health care providers like Planned Parenthood. In Mississippi, state regulators are working to force the last clinic that provided abortions to close. These restrictions most severely affect low-income women and women of color, and women in certain geographic areas.
Threats continue to women’s long-term economic and social security and safety.
During Trust Womwn Week the majority of women, men, children, families and communities who uphold traditional American values of democracy, independence, fairness, progress, innovation and pragmatism expressed our powerful voices.
January 22, 2013, marked the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Roe v Wade that legalized abortion in the U.S.