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Publication Date
2022
Abstract
In response to the May 3rd, 2022 leaked draft majority opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court on Roe v. Wade, the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) at the University at Albany, State University of New York, affirms the right for women and all people with the capacity to become pregnant to have access to safe and legal abortions. We acknowledge that this is a basic right, which is part of the full reproductive freedoms under the rubric of “reproductive justice,” defined by the women-of-color-led SisterSong Collective as “the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities.” We affirm these comprehensive rights alongside the right to gender-affirming healthcare for trans and non-binary individuals, as well as to equitable healthcare across races, ethnicities, nationalities, sexualities, and (dis)ability or immigration status.
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Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS), University at Albany, State University of New York, "A Statement from the Department of Women's. Gender and Sexuality Studies in Reposne to the Majority Opinion Draft from the U.S. Supreme Court on Roe V. Wade" (2022). Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Faculty Scholarship. 1.
https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/cas_womensstudies_scholar/1
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