Women’s Reproductive Rights

Reproductive Justice and the U.S. Carceral System

July 10, 2022 UNAC Editor Oppression of Women, Prisons and Prisoners, Women

by Marie Kelly, published on Workers World, July 8, 2022 The Supreme Court ruling against reproductive rights guaranteed for 50 years in the SCOTUS Roe v. Wade decision has had dramatic and devastating consequences for anyone who can get pregnant but is trapped in the U.S. carceral system. Number of incarcerated women accelerating According to the Prison Policy Initiative, the[…]

Lizelle Herrera & Texas Repression – Arrest Exposes Anti-Abortion Laws

April 13, 2022 UNAC Editor Lawfare, Reproductive Sovereignty, Women

by Monica Moorehead, published on Workers World, April 12, 2022 There was joy and a sigh of relief when Ketanji Brown Jackson was finally confirmed as the first Black woman justice to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, based on a 53-47 Senate vote April 7. Then another legal development of a totally different kind occurred in Starr County, Texas,[…]