The Supreme Court, an unelected group of nine millionaires with lifetime appointments,

has overturned Roe v. Wade, which guaranteed the right to abortion at the federal level.

Tens of thousands of people have been in the streets all over the country since the Dobbs decision

was announced on Friday, and in the weeks prior to that, in response to the draft decision,

leak.

Biden called abortion, quote, a fundamental right in his speech Friday reacting to the decision,

but has so far taken no action to restore this right.

How can a militant women's movement overcome the indifference and outright hostility of the political establishment towards abortion rights?

The Party for Socialism and Liberation and other grassroots activists are putting forward a program of struggle and immediate demands that can be implemented right now if Biden and the Democrats

were willing to use their authority in the federal government.

The PSL issued a statement yesterday that read in part, quote,

anti-abortion trigger laws will take 30 days to take effect in most places.

While our protests continue to demand federal legislation to make abortion a right

and the elimination of the filibuster, we also demand the White House take emergency action.

A public health emergency can be declared.

Federal facilities and military hospitals could be opened to offer abortion care.

These and many other actions are well within presidential authority without federal legislation.

The government can and must assert that the Hyde Amendment, which denies federal funds for abortion

in Medicaid and other health programs, does not apply to such emergency actions.

After the leak of the draft opinion in May, the Biden administration began considering contingency

plans like this.

34 Democratic senators have demanded that he act on them.

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