Wed 11/30 @ 11:30AM
The recent election left a lot of white male (mostly) pundits with egg dripping down their entitled faces after they told their listeners in the lead-up to the election that voters were so over abortion and only cared about inflation.
Instead, in all five states which had an issue on the ballot protecting reproductive rights, it passed, including in deep red Montana and Kentucky. Here in Ohio, where the movement to put reproductive rights on the ballot is already advancing, misogynist, anti-democracy politicians such as Secretary of State Frank LaRose are already panicking about the possibility of voters overturning GOP-installed abortion restrictions. LaRose held a press conference last week to introduce the idea of making it much harder to pass a ballot issue, looking to thwart any effort by voters to overcome the gerrymandered lopsided Republican majority in the legislature (a gerrymandered majority LaRose violated the state constitution to vote for.)
Hear more about the future of reproductive rights in Ohio and elsewhere when Fatima Goss Graves, president/CEO of the National Women’s Law Center talks about “The Changing Landscape of Reproductive Rights” with moderator Helen Forbes Fields, president/CEO of the YWCA of Greater Cleveland, at the City Club.
They’ll look at how with Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision overturning Roe v. Wade in June created chaos across the country, where a woman’s ability to control her own body and her own life was at the mercy of what state she lived in — and how affluent she is. Goss Grave will talk about the legal strategies being prepared to address women’s reproductive rights, and the greater inequality and poverty caused by the lack of these rights.
The forum will be livestreamed starting at noon. If you have questions, you can tweet @TheCityClub or text 330-541-5794.
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