Writer and journalist Sian Norris is joined by an expert panel to discuss the impact of the US Supreme Court's decision to overrule Rove vs Wade on abortion rights in the US and around the world.
One year ago, the US Supreme Court overruled Roe vs Wade, the 1973 judgement which had allowed for safe and legal abortion across the nation. Within days, multiple states had implemented abortion bans, while anti-abortion actors around the world seized on the opportunity to further their agenda.
In this two-part talk, Sian Norris is joined first by Rose Wakikona, senior attorney at Womenslink Worldwide in Uganda, Anissa Daboussi from AWID in the UK and then by Bethany van Kampen-Saravia, senior legal and policy adviser at Ipas in the US.
They discuss the impact of US law on the global political climate, looking at the effects of the legitimisation of attacks on reproductive rights through the overruling of Roe vs Wade. They also comment on American foreign assistance funding and the omission of abortion provision under the Helms Act, whereby even in countries where abortion is legal, US funding cannot be used for this form of healthcare. The conversation covers the spread of far-right ideologies, from their attack on women’s, LGBTQ+ and reproductive rights, and looks at the complex networks sustaining these fundamentalist groups.
Importantly, this panel also looks at the causes for hope in the face of the decreasing access to safe abortion in America and other parts of the world. They speak about the power of female communities and stories and how feminist movements are mobilising in the face of the attack on sexual and reproductive rights.
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7 сен 2024
