It would simply have been taken for granted that men had an inalienable right to terminate a pregnancy. 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. Now, instead, what is being spelled out in the law is what women can’t do with their bodies. Millions of child-bearing women live in states with no abortion rights or extremely restricted rights, putting them at risk of having to give birth against their will. After the 1994 uprising in Chiapas, the Zapatistas enshrined women’s rights into the Women’s Revolutionary Law, which rules the way they live today.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 02, 2023 22:05 UTC