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US unions to confront Mississippi anti-abortionists
MARK GRUENBERG reports on the widening campaigning of women's organisations against right-wing legal initiatives in Mississippi to courtail women access to abortion on demand
(L to R) The message is loud and clear; supporter Megan Rapinoe
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WHEN it comes to defending women’s reproductive rights, there’s no question where the nation’s union women stand: 100 per cent for their sisters and against the mostly male repressive forces who would strip those rights away.
Which is why the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) and individual unions, including the four largest, joined friend-of-the-court briefs on the side of the Jackson, Mississippi, Women’s Health Organisation as its freedom of reproductive choice case comes to the Supreme Court on December 1.
That day, as the Women’s March prepares to surround the court outside, the justices will hear oral argument on the case pitting the centre, the Magnolia State’s sole abortion-providing clinic, against the state government and its ruling right-wing Republicans referred to as “Grand Old Party” (GOP).
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