“We Have Had Abortions” Petition Relaunches 50 Years Later—With Support From Original Signatories

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“We Have Had Abortions” Petition Relaunches 50 Years Later—With Support From Original Signatories
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“While the Supreme Court may, because of the machinations of the one party, eviscerate Roe v. Wade, now is not the time to give up,” said Diamonstein-Spielvogel. ✍️ CarrieNBaker

Roe v. Wade

, now is not the time to give up,” said Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, the author of the original “We Have Had Abortions” article that appeared inIn 1972—when abortion was illegal throughout most of the country—53 well-known U.S.

Gloria Steinem, Billie Jean King, Susan Sontag, Nora Ephron, Dorothy Pitman Hughes and Judy Collins were among the signers. The women spoke out “to save lives and to spare other women the pain of socially imposed guilt” and “to repeal archaic and inhuman laws.” They invited all women to sign in order to “help eliminate the stigma” of abortion.

The petition was inspired by a public manifesto signed the year before by 343 French women declaring they had undergone abortions.petition had abortions, and the there was a ground rule not to ask nor to reply to that question, says Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, the author of the original “We Have Had Abortions” article that appeared in“Signers responded in the evocative and then-current spirit of JFK’s ‘Ich bin ein Berliner.

But now, 50 years later, the current Trump-packed Supreme Court is poised to overturn the constitutional right to access abortion. In September, the Court allowed a

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