Women’s March San Luis Obispo Calls for Action: We Cannot Overturn Roe
A conservative majority at the Supreme Court appears ready to overturn Roe v. Wade decision that has protected abortion rights for nearly 50 years.
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. – (May 3, 2022) – According to a May 2, 2022 leaked draft of the Supreme Court majority, the consitutional right to abortion care known as Roe will soon be overturned. Roe v. Wade is the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that affirmed the constitutional right to abortion.
“While the leaked draft is not the final word, it is an alarming sign of what’s to come for the legal right to abortion,” said Women’s March SLO Co-Executive Director Andrea Chmelik. “If Roe is overturned, we know that as many as 26 states are set to immediately ban abortion care, leaving millions of people without access. We cannot stand by and quietly let this happen. Now is exactly the time to keep showing up, speaking up, and making our voices heard.”
Women’s March SLO (WMSLO) believes that the right to make decisions about one’s own body and reproductive functions is at the core of basic rights to equality, privacy and bodily autonomy. WMSLO firmly supports reproductive freedom for all. The organization has worked tirelessly to defend abortion care access. This includes fighting against federal, state or local rollbacks, cuts or restrictions on access to quality reproductive healthcare services, gender affirming care, birth control, or medically accurate sexuality education.
“Abortion restrictions are about control – they are designed to make care harder to provide, obtain and afford, and disproportionately affect people who are low income, people of color, young people, LGBTQ+ people, and those who live in rural communities,” said Women’s March San Luis Obispo Co-Executive Director Dawn Addis. “It’s up to each of us to make a difference right here, right now. Don’t wait for someone else to take action.”
WMSLO urges the public to join in education, advocacy and action for reproductive rights in the following ways:
- advocate for affordable and accessible care at all levels
- elect school board members who support accurate education about gender and sexuality
- elect city councilmembers, county supervisors, and state and federal representatives who explicitly support reproductive health care and abortion
- vote for reproductive freedom champions in midterm 2022 election and in every election
- contact your elected representatives
- write a letter to the editor
- share your stories and support others who are in need of reproductive health care
- support your local Planned Parenthood
- give your time, money and energy to become a part of the solution
Women’s March San Luis Obispo is a fiscally-sponsored non-profit with the mission of building a women-friendly world through education, advocacy and action. More information about the organization can be found at www.womensmarchslo.com.
Are we marching tonight as requested via the main womens march movement?
Hi Cecily, Women’s March SLO is not affiliated with the Women’s March DC. We do not receive any support – financial or otherwise – from them. We fully support any and all grassroots efforts to defend Roe and reproductive freedom, including peacefully assembling today at 5pm at front of the SLO Courthouse. We are also working with local organizations on other call to actions that we will be sharing as soon as we can. In the meantime, we encourage everyone to continue using their voice and vote to support reproductive rights.
Are there any marches may 14 locally? (like the rest of the nation)
Hi Joan, yes – please sign up for our emails so you stay informed! We always share upcoming events there. Saturday, May 14 at noon, SLO Courthouse.
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can we obtain signs? possibly before march or day of?
Hi Tami, we do not provide signs but you are welcome to bring one!
Five Supreme Court Justices lying to the camera about defending Casey v. Planned Parenthood / Roe
https://youtu.be/9RiKO3SDawE
Every branch of government and all members completely self serving.
This whole debacle could have been prevented and its responsibility lays at the feet of the Democratic Party:
1. The Clinton administration betrays the American working class with NAFTA. Clinton signs off in repealing the firewall between depository and investment banking ( Financial Services Modernization Act)
which created the financial stability and American wealth after the Great Depression 1.
2: Obama fails to protect the interests of American home owners and bails out Wall Street during (another) financial collapse (2008). During the brief Democratic supermajority during Obama’s administration, RBG fails to bow out gracefully so as to allow a liberal Justice to replace her and make Roe’s presumed defeat not so lopsided and to potentially pick off the one neanderthal Justice that could have allowed Roe to stand.
3. As a result of the aforementioned stabs in the back, formerly Democratic districts flip and vote for Trump and Democrats get swept in down ballot elections too. Trump nominates 3 of the 5 Justices that will presumably remove a women’s reproductive rights.
We don’t need what has become of the Democratic Party, what we need is publicly financed elections, the taxation and redistribution of concentrated wealth, respect for the people in what Hillary Clinton called “flyover country,” we need mass clean and safe, large scale, green, public housing, the break up of monopolies, the outlawing of the revolving door between political office and the private sector (Timothy Geitner, Eric Holder, all the military brass and defense contractors), and basically large scale preparation for a collapsed biosphere by 2035.
Framing it as a right to abortion is incendiary, like “defunding the police.” It is in fact a right to self determination, a right to decisions regarding my body and a right to privacy in my doctors office and medial treatment.
Are there any upcoming events after todays ruling?