Thirty-five years after Roe

Today, in the United States, is the thirty-fifth anniversary of the landmark 1973 Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade, which essentially held that women may elect to have an abortion for any reason up until the point when the fetus becomes ‘viable’. Ever since this ruling, social and religious conservatives have attempted to curtail or even reverse this crucial right, and unfortunately have been seeing some successes in various parts of the country with measures like parental-notification laws, laws mandating waiting periods before the abortion may be carried out, and laws restricting particular kinds of abortion techniques.

Jill Filipovic has an excellent post up at Feministe, which is also posted in the Huffington Post, outlining ‘10 Reasons to Support Reproductive Justice on Roe Day’. There’s nothing there I feel I can improve upon—just go read it. Also check out her roundup of the best Roe Day commentary out there.