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Editorial for International Women’s Day from USA magazine Against the Current<\/a>, journal of Solidarity US<\/a>, “a socialist, feminist, anti-racist organization”<\/p>\n

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Women\u2019s Rights, Human Rights<\/h1>\n

Afghanistan, Iran, Poland, El Salvador and Nicaragua. Texas, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi\u2026<\/p>\n

These are among the countries and states where ruling authorities take it upon themselves \u2014 in a variety of ways along a broad repressive spectrum \u2014 to curtail, suppress or outright nullify women\u2019s rights if not their basic personhood. The ways and means of these attacks of course vary widely.<\/p>\n

They range from legal and official discrimination, to gendered violence perpetrated with impunity, to rape as a weapon as in Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine and the Ethiopian state\u2019s war in Tigray, and more. What\u2019s common to each and every case is that degrading women\u2019s rights \u2014 along with those of queer and non-binary people \u2014 is central to reactionary forces\u2019 assaults on all human rights.<\/p>\n

As for the United States itself, where the battles over abortion and gender are inextricably part of the swirling unresolved political crisis and potential Constitutional meltdown, we\u2019ll also look briefly here at some too little-covered facts of how U.S. policies impact the rights and lives of women outside this country\u2019s borders.<\/p>\n

In Iran, the regime is in open warfare against the pop\u00adulation. The response to the murder of Mahsa (Jina) Amini has become an uprising against the entire apparatus of the \u201cIslamic Republic.\u201d Dictating what women choose to wear is basic to the drive for complete social control of what everyone, especially youth, are allowed to do or dream.<\/p>\n

\u201cWomen. Life. Freedom!\u201d<\/em> is a women-led revolution that now engages the struggles of Iran\u2019s youth, Kurdish people and strategic sectors of the working class.<\/h3>\n

Will it triumph? Right now there\u2019s no way to know. What we can say, even though the murderous brutality of the Iranian theocracy and Revolutionary Guards knows no limits, is that Iran will not return to society\u2019s former half-voluntary compliance with the dictatorship.<\/p>\n

In Afghanistan, the most vicious elements of the Taliban \u2014 who exercise decisive veto power over the regime \u2014seek to nullify the very personhood of women. Deprived of access to university and even high school education, barred from employment in public service or by international aid organizations, they are left dependent or destitute. Among the results this winter are threatened deaths by starvation or freezing of hundreds of thousands of Afghans whom assistance can no longer reach.<\/p>\n

This heartbreak and disaster are fairly well-covered in mainstream media. What\u2019s too easily forgotten, so all the more important to recall here, is that \u201cliberation\u201d of Afghan women served as a pretext for the U.S. and allied invasion following the 9\/11 2001 attacks \u2014 after imperialist interventions and rivalries from the 1980s on had already brought Afghanistan to the edge of catastrophe.<\/p>\n

The delusion of liberating women \u2014 or anyone else \u2014 in Afghanistan from above and from outside played no small part in the development of the present tragedy.<\/p>\n

In Ukraine, not only are rape as well as mass murders of civilians committed by Russian invading forces. Vladimir Putin himself calls Moscow\u2019s war a defence of \u201ctraditional values\u201d against such perversions as queer rights and the mythical \u201cdozens of genders\u201d supposedly recognised in the West. Putin\u2019s ultra-reactionary ravings are the natural accom\u00adpaniment to the denial of Ukraine\u2019s right to exist, with the genocidal implications of that doctrine. The invaders\u2019 rape and massacre perpetrated against the people of Ukraine feed back into the savage escalation of the already intense repression of LGBT people within Russia.<\/p>\n

Closer to Home<\/strong><\/h2>\n

If the examples of Iran, Afghanistan and Russian atrocities in Ukraine are the most immediately visible cases of the extinction of women\u2019s rights and the consequences, there are plenty of instances closer to our own situation. The point is not to identify the \u201cworst\u201d case \u2014 as such comparisons are essentially meaningless \u2014 but to examine some common features.<\/p>\n

Take Poland, in the heart of Europe: Extreme restrictions on abortion access have been imposed by the right wing \u201cLaw and Justice\u201d party in alliance with the Catholic church. These measures are accompanied \u2014 not coincidentally \u2014 by severe weakening of the power of the judiciary to limit anti-democratic legislative extremism. That\u2019s also occurred in Hungary\u2019s self-declared \u201cilliberal democracy\u201d and is now well underway in the Israeli state.<\/p>\n

Two-thirds of Polish citizens support abortion rights \u2013 very similar to the percentage in the United States. Women-led protests have taken to the streets in large numbers in Warsaw and other cities and towns, but so far failed to overturn the government\u2019s measures.<\/p>\n

The full toll in women\u2019s deaths and permanent injuries remains unknown. Since 2021 at least two women in publicised cases, Anieszka T. and Izabela Sajbor, died after abortion care was denied even though the foetuses were either unviable or already dead.<\/p>\n

In Ireland, popular revulsion over the 2012 death of Savita Halappanavar, who was denied a medically essential abortion until it was too late, led to striking the anti-abortion provision from the country\u2019s Constitution.<\/p>\n

In Israel, tens of thousands are taking to the streets weekly against the ultra-racist governing coalition\u2019s move to strip the powers of the Supreme Court. Women\u2019s and queer rights are relatively well-entrenched in Israel \u2014 for Jewish citizens \u2014 and less likely to be immediately on the chopping block.<\/p>\n

The first casualties in this case are the already-vanishing shreds of court protection for Palestinians in the occupied territories, and the (limited) civil rights of Arab citizens including their parties\u2019 ability to run in Israeli elections (which the Supreme Court has reinstated by overruling bans imposed by parliamentary decrees). There are elements in the \u201creligious Zionism\u201d bloc, however, for whom gender and especially queer rights are blasphemy and ultimate targets for extinction under the \u201cJewish state.\u201d<\/p>\n

Central America is a particularly gruesome arena in the women\u2019s health battleground. The new government of president Xiaomara Castro in Honduras promised to loosen the country\u2019s deadly abortion ban, but hasn\u2019t yet succeeded. The situations in Nicaragua and El Salvador are grim: When left wing governments were in power (the Sandinistas in 1980s Nicaragua, the FMLN party elected in El Salvador in the \u201990s after the civil war), they failed to take anti-abortion laws off the books.<\/p>\n

Nicaragua today is ruled by the right wing presidentialist dictatorship of Daniel Ortega (see \u201cRepression Continues to Grow in Nicaragua\u201d by William I. Robinson, ATC 222<\/a>) and El Salvador by the reactionary government of Nayib Bukele. Women in El Salvador who suffer miscarriages are subject to prosecution and up to 30-year prison terms, provoking widespread outrage. Not coincidentally, under this repressive regime, water protectors are also being prosecuted (see page 2 of this issue).<\/p>\n

The Not-\u201c100% American\u201d Scene<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In our own partially democratic country called the United States of America, a woman\u2019s right to control her own body is constrained legally by the state she lives in, practically by her county of residence \u2014 where abortion care may be unavailable even if legal \u2014 and financially by her capacity to travel if she needs to gain access beyond state lines.<\/p>\n

The long, instructive and often heroic struggle for abortion rights and expanded other essential rights and services \u2014 against racist sterilization abuse, for adequate paid parental leave and free quality childcare, for birth control and sex education \u2014 is discussed by Dianne Feeley in this issue of Against the Current<\/a>. Much of that feminist liberation agenda remains unfulfilled, of course, especially in the era of neoliberal \u201cfree market\u201d dogma, falling real wages and stagnant living standards, and capital\u2019s assault on labour rights and unions.<\/p>\n

Following the Supreme Court Dobbs ruling, the right wing aims to hurl women back to the age when unwanted pregnancy, or a pregnancy with complications, meant terror. Where they control state governments, attempts to criminalise medical (pharmaceutical) abortion, out-of-state travel for abortion access, even contraception, are on their agenda \u2014 along with ever more vicious assaults on trans youth, banning books and education on Black history and U.S. racism, and other malicious mischief.<\/p>\n

What often gets less attention than it deserves is the international impact of the United States\u2019 reproductive rights battleground. \u201cA half-century-old U.S. law is stripping women of rights they are legally entitled to in their home countries,\u201d writes Anu Kumar (\u201cWhy is America Preventing Legal Abortions in Ethiopia?\u201d The New York Times, 10\/23\/22)<\/p>\n

The reason is a particularly vicious 1973 post-Roe backlash legislation known as the (Senator Jesse) Helms Amendment, appropriately carrying the name of its sponsor, one of the most racist as well as misogynist politicians in our recent history. It prohibits U.S. foreign aid funding for \u201cabortions as a method of family planning.\u201d<\/p>\n

Under a restrictive interpretation that goes beyond even the language of the amendment, Kumar explains, the law \u201cinstead incorrectly has been applied as an outright ban on all abortions.\u201d It has also been interpreted to mean that clinics receiving U.S. funding cannot even mention abortion. And even though only U.S. funding is directly affected, in many poor and rural regions \u201cthe complication of securing other funding that could be used for abortions is too difficult, which means the entire health facility simply does not offer abortions at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

The heavy hand of these restrictions is felt all the more strongly because U.S. funding of family planning overseas amounts to 40-50% of the global total. In Ethiopia, Anu Kumar reports, her organization IPAS (Partners for Reproductive Justice) states that \u201cthe United States funded about 30 percent of total family planning foreign aid in Ethiopia from 2018 to 2020, but that funding is spread among more than 45 percent of health facilities in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Such is the case for example at the Shekebedo Health Centre in southwestern Ethiopia, a country where abortion is legal. The Centre\u2019s partial funding by the U.S. Agency for International Development \u201chas stopped the clinic from offering abortions to Ethiopian women.\u201d<\/p>\n

The global harm is enormous, says Kumar: \u201cIn countries that accept U.S. family planning aid and where abortion is legal under some circumstances, more than 19 million unsafe abortions occur annually \u2014 more than half of the global total\u201d (emphasis added) \u2014 resulting in complications including deadly ones like sepsis that claim some 16,000 women\u2019s and girls\u2019 lives annually.<\/p>\n

The alternation of U.S. presidential admin\u00adistrations, with Republicans applying more restrictive and Democrats more liberal directives, makes it even more difficult to implement coherent policies.<\/p>\n

This is blood on the hands of the U.S. Congress, the grotesquely mislabelled \u201cpro-life\u201d movement, and the executive branch, including president Biden, who at least \u201ccould issue federal guidelines to clarify that Helms permits U.S. funds for abortion care in cases of rape, incest and life endangerment\u201d and \u201censure that clinics in countries where abortion is legal understand that U.S. rules allow them to offer abortion information and counselling.\u201d<\/p>\n

To see what difference a sane and decent policy could produce, consider the case of Benin, an African nation where the number of botched abortions declined after access to abortions was broadened (Elian Peltier, The New York Times, 11\/13\/22).<\/p>\n

While most countries in Africa restrict or ban abortion \u2014 South Africa, Mozambique, Cape Verde and Tunisia being among the exceptions \u2014 the tide there is slowly turning toward abortion rights, despite fears that the overturn of Roe in the United States may hold it back.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s important to say here that the very real authoritarian menace globally and in the United States, with all the murderous attacks on women\u2019s lives, LGBTQ people and (especially in dozens of U.S. state legislatures) transgender young people, is only one side of the picture. Victories are being won, whether large (as in Ireland, Mexico, etc.) or more modest as in U.S. state ballot referenda.<\/p>\n

Most important of all is that everywhere, the fight is on \u2014 women along with queer and trans people will not quietly accept oppressors\u2019 and cynical politicians\u2019 denial of their humanity, dignity, agency and rights. The movements are decisive: When the targets of oppression stand up for themselves, they attract allies and solidarity, and their struggles cannot be pushed back into isolation, silence and shame \u2014 as so many generations of women have suffered undergoing forced birth or deadly illegal abortions.<\/p>\n

The lesson everywhere is that women\u2019s rights, gender and trans rights, queer rights are human rights. They rise or fall together. In a world of rising authoritarian rule and right wing menace, \u201cWomen. Life. Freedom!\u201d means all of us.<\/h3>\n

Source: Editorial March-April 2023, ATC 223\u00a0 https:\/\/againstthecurrent.org\/atc223\/womens-rights-human-rights\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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