{"id":11247,"date":"2022-07-11T11:43:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T15:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idavox.com\/?p=11247"},"modified":"2022-07-11T11:59:34","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T15:59:34","slug":"antifascists-decades-long-fight-for-reproductive-rights-becomes-a-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idavox.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/11\/antifascists-decades-long-fight-for-reproductive-rights-becomes-a-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Antifascists\u2019 Decades-Long Fight for Reproductive Rights Becomes a War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Everyone is stepping up their game with this one, but for antifa, it might be a matter of refining it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

On June 1, American SHARP (Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice) released a statement in the wake of the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) decision to scuttle reproductive rights for millions of women. “American SHARP stands in absolute solidarity with all those affected by the overturning of Roe v. Wade, with those fighting for reproductive health justice, and with the LGBTQIA+ community whose rights are the next to be threatened by SCOTUS,\u201d the statement read. \u201cWe encourage those seeking to join the fight for reproductive health to seek out and support existing reproductive health and mutual aid organizations. This is no time for white saviorism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The statement reaffirms the dedication antifascists have had in defending reproductive rights going back decades. In the weeks that followed the May 1 leaking of the draft Supreme Court decision to scuttle Roe V. Wade, the 1973 ruling that made abortion access legal throughout the country, antifascists continued their participation in that fight, promoting mutual aid organizations whose focus is women\u2019s health as well as organizations and funds for abortion access. Shout Your Abortion<\/a>, an organization that \u201cis normalizing abortion and elevating safe paths to access, regardless of legality,\u201d provides links to resources for abortion access on their website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The antifascist history in fighting for reproductive rights is detailed in an entire chapter of We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action<\/a><\/em>, a book that will be released in November by PM Press about the history of the most prominent antifascist movement of the past thirty years. It notes how at the ARA Network conference in 1995, Minneapolis ARA proposed that chapters include patriarchy, homophobia and reproductive freedom as a part of the anti-racist and anti-fascist work of the movement. Chapters did indeed embrace this fight and got involved in clinic defense and intelligence gathering against the Christian Right. Such efforts included defending the clinic of Dr. George Tiller, the abortion provider who for years was routinely harassed and threatened by the right ranging from Operation Save America (formerly known as Operation Rescue) to television commentator Bill O\u2019Reilly who after relentless attacks against him on his Fox News program immediately stopped mentioning Tiller after he was murdered by an anti-abortion activist outside his church in May of 2009. By 1998, ARA adopted a fourth point of unity: \u201cWe support abortion rights and unrestricted reproductive freedom for all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In March 2001, Columbus Anti-Racist Action and myself surveilled a anti-abortion crew protesting a clinic and harassing patients. This is me acting as if I was one of them. We found a cell of the Army of God, a crew that believed in killing homosexuals and abortion providers. 1\/2 pic.twitter.com\/KCjR59rneH<\/a><\/p>— Daryle Lamont Jenkins (@DLamontJenkins) May 3, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote>