As an organization that believes in the power of voters to create a more perfect democracy, the League of Women Voters (LWV) is fighting to preserve the individual rights of women to make their own reproductive choices.
On Saturday, Mar. 1, the League and the American Association of University Women (AAUW) Fremont Branch are co-sponsoring a program entitled, “The Threat to Reproductive Freedom,” featuring speaker Stacey Cross, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, the largest Planned Parenthood affiliate in the country.
Stacy Cross is a seasoned healthcare executive with more than 30 years of executive and board leadership and entrepreneurial skills in sexual and reproductive health, pharmaceuticals, wellness and management.
She has a very personal commitment to Planned Parenthood’s mission of ensuring reproductive rights and access to healthcare for all. Both of her grandmothers died far too young—one was only 19—because they did not have access to effective birth control or safe preventive healthcare.
The League of Women Voters has engaged with all significant abortion-related lawsuits and federal legislation since Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. The League’s position is that all people should have access to a basic level of quality healthcare at an affordable cost, including abortion, and that public policy must affirm the constitutional right of privacy of the individual to make reproductive choices.
In addition to grave health consequences, the overturn of Roe endangers other individual liberties. In the Roe ruling, abortion is protected as a right to privacy in the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the same legal reasoning that the Supreme Court used to uphold the rights to contraception, interracial marriage and same-sex marriage.
The precedent of overturning the constitutional protection of the right to privacy threatens these and other civil liberties as well.
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The Threat to Reproductive Freedom
Saturday, Mar. 1
10-11:30am
Niles Discovery Church
36600 Niles Blvd., Fremont
Free
