Ms Forum Supreme Court Vacancy: What’s At Stake for Women?
See the video – “National Press Club Forum on the Supreme Court Vacancy”
Ms. magazine held a Journalist Forum at the National Press Club on Monday, July 11 to discuss how changes in the court could endanger not just abortion rights but four decades of women’s access to contraceptives and other critical women’s rights.
C-SPAN3 carried our Ms. Community Forum beginning at 10:30am eastern. It will repeat on C-SPAN 1 at 1:16am EST and 4:43am EST on July 12, and throughout the week.
The forum featured: Ellen Chesler, historian and author, Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America; Senior Fellow, Open Society Institute
Judith M. DeSarno, president and CEO, National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association
Jocelyn Frye, Director of Legal and Public Policy, National Partnership for Women and Families, focusing on a new report that poses key questions women need answered by the next nominee to US Supreme Court
Dolores Huerta, co-founder and first vice president emeritus of the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO; leader of Civil Rights movement
Eleanor Smeal, president, Feminist Majority Foundation; testified on behalf of Sandra Day O’Connor before Senate Judiciary Committee in 1981 as NOW president
Frank Susman, reproductive rights attorney; argued Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, the 1989 U.S. Supreme Court case that threatened legal abortion rights.
Read the Urgent Report released in the current issue of Ms. Magazine, which analyzes what’s at stake for women if one more conservative Justice is named to the Supreme Court.
See the video – “National Press Club Forum on the Supreme Court Vacancy”
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