By ANN MONTAGUE and LISA LEONARD
The leaked draft opinion by a majority of Supreme Court Justices supporting overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision has fueled the anger of women across the country. Furious women immediately surged the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court to denounce the court’s intention to overturn half a century of legal abortion rights.
By CINCINNATI SOCIALIST WORKERS ORGANIZATION
The legalistic-liberal strategy excludes the masses from participation and abandons the mass action tactics that led to Roe in the first place. Even though it came through the courts, abortion was not legalized because someone came up with a clever argument but because masses of people mobilized and took to the streets to demand it.
By ANN MONTAGUE
While the anti-abortion Democrats work to co-opt abortion rights supporters into their election goals, independent mass action remains the way forward.