Australians Rally in Solidarity With Abortion Rights Activists in US After Supreme Court Decision
Hundreds of people marched through Newcastle in New South Wales on July 30, for a protest sparked by a US Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v Wade, a ruling that protected abortion rights in the US since 1973.
Footage by Newcastle City Councillor Carol Duncan shows a crowd holding pro-abortion rights signs chanting “We fight back.”
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Organizers said on Facebook the supreme court’s decision was “a huge step back for equality and rights for women and child bearers.”
Demonstrators were also calling for increased funding for abortion services in New South Wales. Abortion was decriminalized in the state in 2019. Credit: Carol Duncan via Storyful
Video Transcript
- [INAUDIBLE]
[CHEERING]
- [INAUDIBLE] keep putting it on. Women's rights under attack, what do we do?
- We fight back!
- Women's rights under attack, what do we do?
- We fight back!
- Women's rights under attack, what do we do?
- We fight back!
- [INAUDIBLE]
[CHEERING]
- [INAUDIBLE] keep putting it on. Women's rights under attack, what do we do?
- We fight back!
- Women's rights under attack, what do we do?
- We fight back!
- Women's rights under attack, what do we do?
- We fight back!
- [INAUDIBLE]
[CHEERING]
- [INAUDIBLE] keep putting it on. Women's rights under attack, what do we do?
- We fight back!
- Women's rights under attack, what do we do?
- We fight back!
- Women's rights under attack, what do we do?
- We fight back!
Sat, July 2, 2022
STORY: The U.S. Supreme Court last week overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, restoring the ability of individual states to ban abortion.
"We're here to stand up for women's rights in Australia and around the world. Millions of women in the United States have had their rights stripped from them and we're angry about that," said Liz Walsh, one of the organizers of the protest in Melbourne, with police estimating the attendance at around 15,000.
As in the United States now, in Australia, abortion laws are set by states. The country's most populous state, New South Wales, only legalized abortion in 2019 -- the last one to do so. South Australia bans private abortion clinics. The time limit after conception for accessing surgical abortion and provision of abortion services varies from state to state.
Wed, June 29, 2022
STORY: Activists and Amnesty International officials carried green handkerchieves, which represent the feminist fight for abortion legalisation in Latin America, known as the green wave.
The President for Amnesty International Mexico, Marcela Villalobos, called the U.S. Supreme Court abortion ban a 'worrying step back' not just for U.S. but for the whole region.
"It is a message sent to women saying: 'You don't decide over your bodies.' These sexual and reproductive rights for which so many women and social movements have fought for years and decades... This takes us back half a century," she said.
On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, a decision condemned by President Joe Biden that will dramatically change the life for millions of women in the United States and exacerbate growing tensions in a deeply polarised country.
In Mexico, abortion is legal in nine states.
In September last year, Mexico's Supreme Court unanimously ruled it unconstitutional to penalise abortions, a major victory for advocates of women's health and human rights.
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