Electronic Arts’ chief people officer Mala Singh has told the employees that EA will only make public statements that “actually have a positive impact” regarding public statements to defend abortion rights and transgender rights
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The author of “The Handmaid’s Tale” is standing up for choice.
Over the weekend, Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood penned an op-ed for The Guardian, responding to the leaked draft opinion indicating the U.S. Supreme Court may overturn Roe V. Wade.
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The famous and controversial 1973 ruling enshrined a federal right to abortion access in America.
“Nobody likes abortion, even when safe and legal. It’s not what any woman would choose for a happy time on Saturday night,” Atwood began. “But nobody likes women bleeding to death on the bathroom floor from illegal abortions either. What to do?”
Comparing the prospect of a ban on abortion to slavery, Atwood explained, “Women who cannot make their own decisions about whether or not to have babies are enslaved because the state claims ownership of their bodies and the right to dictate the use to which their bodies must be put.”
“If the state is mandating enforced childbirth, why should it not pay for prenatal care, for the birth itself, for postnatal care, and – for babies who are not sold off to richer families – for the cost of bringing up the child?” she continued. “And if the state is very fond of babies, why not honour the women who have the most babies by respecting them and lifting them out of poverty? If women are providing a needed service to the state – albeit against their wills – surely they should be paid for their labour.”
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Atwood went on to discuss the importance of choice on the issue of abortion.
“We say that women ‘give birth.’ And mothers who have chosen to be mothers do give birth, and
Electronic Arts’ chief people officer Mala Singh has told the employees that EA will only make public statements that “actually have a positive impact” regarding public statements to defend abortion rights and transgender rights
said Tuesday. “Not just about Roe vs. Wade but about everything else.”Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future” depicts a future in which humans have adapted to the point of no longer feeling pain and have embraced wild surgeries with new transformations and mutations to their bodies.
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Roe v. Wade is overturned.
Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that found a constitutional right to abortion. Elderly women decades deep into their abortion fights marched alongside young girls taking their first steps as activists. Dogs walked patiently along march routes packed with thousands of protesters.
Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorSpeakers including Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti, mayoral candidate and congressperson Karen Bass, attorney Gloria Allred and actors including Ricki Lake and Christine Lahti urged people to fight for reproductive freedom at the “Bans Off Our Bodies” rally in downtown Los Angeles Saturday.“I can’t work in Texas anymore,” said “Abbott Elementary” star Lisa Ann Walter, who stated that she is working with SAG-AFTRA to inform members of the reproductive health laws in each state. “We won’t quit until women are guaranteed autonomy all over this country.”Thousands of people turned out for the Los Angeles event in front of City Hall, while more than 380 rallies were planned across the United States.
MSPs and reproductive rights campaigners gathered in Edinburgh to show solidarity with their US peers protesting over the Roe vs Wade re-appeal.
Billie Eilish, Phoebe Bridgers, Halsey and Megan Thee Stallion are among the more than 150 artists who have signed a letter denouncing the US Supreme Court’s leaked draft opinion which threatened the possible overturn of Roe V. Wade.The letter, which was shared as part of Planned Parenthood’s #BansOffOurBodies campaign also included signatures from Olivia Rodrigo, Clairo, The Regrettes, Snail Mail, and Angel Olsen, appeared in a full-page New York Times ad today (May 13). See the ad and full list of signatures below.“The Supreme Court is planning to overturn Roe v.
Roe v. Wade, this will be the greatest bloodletting in 50 years.It’s kind of hilarious, as women and queer people prepare once again to make the case for their humanity, to wonder: Will men even show up?If cis straight men are trying not to take up too much space in the reproductive justice movement, they’re succeeding. We have evidence that men know how to get involved in abortion rights, because plenty of men devote themselves to remove them.
Stars are coming together to take a stand for access to abortion in America.
A bill to protect abortion rights failed to clear the Senate on Wednesday, as Democrats seek to highlight to looming prospect that the Supreme Court will overturn Roe V. Wade.
Roe falls, it will be like nothing we have seen since the 1970s. States have set up “trigger laws,” such that as soon as the Supreme Court decision goes out, at least 26 states are “certain or likely” to ban abortion, according to .“Either abortion will be outlawed in your state or your state will become a state that needs to start providing abortions to people who are coming from out of state,” Kimberly Inez McGuire, executive director of URGE: Unite for Reproductive and Gender Equity, last week. “So this will have an impact on every single person in this country.”Across the country, women—and nonbinary people, men, and children—feel betrayed and abandoned by conservative lawmakers.
Author Margaret Atwood continues to battle against the oppression of women’s rights by the government on the heels of a leaked draft opinion revealing the Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe vs. Wade.
Arcade Fire appeared on Saturday Night Live last night (May 7), performing two tracks from ‘WE’ and seemingly speaking out about abortion rights.Earlier this week, a leaked draft from the US Supreme Court suggested the organisation is preparing to overturn Roe V. Wade – a 1973 ruling that made abortion legal on a federal level.Arcade Fire used their performance on Saturday Night Live to seemingly critique the proposed draft.After a powerful performance of ‘The Lightning I,II’, vocalist Win Butler returned to the mic to say “a woman’s right to choose forever and ever and ever.
Rage Against The Machine have shared a statement speaking out in support of abortion rights, following a leaked draft from the Supreme Court privately voting to overturn Roe v. Wade.The landmark decision was voted on by the US Supreme Court in 1973, a ruling that made abortion legal on a federal level in the US.However, earlier this week (May 2), Politico obtained a leaked initial draft opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito that suggested the court is prepared to overturn Roe vs.
Popular Information.The independent newsletter and site obtained an internal email from Zeno Group, a subsidiary of Edelman with offices all around the United States and the world. The message from Zeno’s Executive Vice President for Media Strategy Katie Cwayna warns that the media “will look for corporations to take a stand” on the leaked draft opinion and “make their views known.”Zeno’s advice: Don’t.Cwayna’s message includes “a template email to share with client contacts,” according to Popular Information.
Lorde spoke out about abortion rights during her show in LA last night (May 5).It comes after the US Supreme Court’s private vote to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which made abortion legal on a federal level in the US, was revealed.Earlier this week (May 2) Politico published a leaked draft opinion penned by Justice Samuel Alito which argued that Roe v.
Ellise Shafer In Amanda Seyfried’s Power of Women speech on Thursday evening, the star of “The Dropout” honored the International Network for Aid, Relief and Assistance, a nonprofit that connects refugee children with crucial medical and mental health care.“This evening, we are gathered to recognize the Power of Women, and I can think of few women more powerful in vision and spirit than my friend, CNN senior international correspondent and the founder of INARA, Arwa Damon, who is sitting right there with us tonight,” Seyfried said. “It is her passion, her dedication, her fearlessness that has inspired me and inspired so many people.”She shared the story of Mia, a Syrian girl whose mother fled their neighborhood during an attack and fell into the rubble, shattering Mia’s bones.
Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaPaxton Smith electrified abortion rights advocates when she used her 2021 high school graduation speech to decry wide-ranging abortion restrictions that were being pushed by Texas lawmakers. The valedictorian’s remarks, in which she told the audience that “there is a war on my body and a war on my rights,” quickly went viral, making Smith one of the youngest faces and most influential voices of the movement.Now, the conflict that Smith described has entered a new phase after Politico broke the news this week that the Supreme Court has prepared a majority draft opinion striking down Roe v.