Commentary: A declaration of non-independence — for women (via latimesopinion )
When the Supreme Court overturned this ruling last year, it sent the issue of reproductive rights to the states, where the fight over access has been waged ever since -- and will continue into coming years.In America, liberty has never been part of a woman’s brief, and our personal autonomy has neither been spelled out nor assumed. It took suffragettes more than 70 years to win a federal right for women to vote with the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920.
that would be the U.S., which is breaking several international human rights treaties it signed. “These human rights obligations include, but are not limited to, the rights to: life; health; privacy; liberty; and security of person,” says a report by the group.
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