Abortion rights protest spurred by Supreme Courtroom ruling in Dobbs

Folks throughout the US skipped work Friday for a “Day With out Us” protest of the latest Supreme Courtroom resolution overturning the federal constitutional proper to an abortion.

Organized by a gaggle of Black ladies leaders, nationwide teach-ins are being held on-line beginning at 11:30 a.m. ET, hosted by actress and singer Naturi Naughton, with gatherings in individual in cities together with Atlanta, Washington, D.C., New York, Chicago and Oakland.

The occasion coincides with the forty sixth anniversary of the Hyde Modification, which blocks federal Medicaid funding for abortion providers.

And it additionally comes days earlier than the following Supreme Courtroom time period, which begins Monday.

Two of the organizers, Leslie Mac and Tiffany Flowers, mentioned the concept for the occasion was sparked by their dismay at Supreme Courtroom’s ruling in June within the case often called Dobbs vs. Jackson Girls’s Well being Group.

That call reversed the federal proper to abortion that had been protected since 1973 by the courtroom’s ruling within the case Roe v. Wade.

“I used to be on a textual content thread with different powerhouse Black ladies who have been feeling actually disenchanted in our leaders — devastated, damage, confused and not sure of what was subsequent,” mentioned Flowers, marketing campaign director for The Frontline, a progressive group.

“What may we do to fulfill the second? Our motto is we do not agonize, we arrange,” she mentioned.

Flowers and Mac introduced collectively companion teams together with the Motion for Black Lives, Transfer On, the Girls’s March, MomsRising Collectively, March for Our Lives and the Working Households Get together.

Tracey Corder, who organized the companions for the occasion, mentioned, ” ‘Day With out Us’ is for everyone — regardless of your id — as a result of we’re all inherently worthy of bodily autonomy.”

“Each assault on our financial, political, and human rights is an assault on our collective freedom, and the autumn of Roe is one half of a bigger challenge of oppression,” Corder mentioned.

Greater than 60% of People disapprove of the Dobbs ruling, in response to a NBC Information ballot launched earlier this month.

Whereas reproductive rights is the main focus of the occasion, organizers say it is also being held to assist progressive causes together with local weather change, entry to housing and labor rights.

The occasion is for “all people who’s sick and bored with being sick and drained!” the web site reads.

“That is an invite,” Flowers mentioned. “Each on-line and at native pop-ups, this all-day occasion will function an area for folks to attach with one another and to attach the dots about our shared struggles. The doorways of the motion are large open, and reproductive justice is the pathway ahead.”