Voting Harder Won’t Bring Back Roe
The end of Roe v. Wade is a disaster that voting alone can’t solve. We need an abortion rights movement that organizes beyond individual elections and fights for reproductive freedom as part of a federal universal health plan.
Protesters gather in Washington Square Park in New York City following the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court, June 24, 2022. (Alex Kent / AFP via Getty Images)
In the wake of yesterday’s anticipated but crushing Supreme Court decision striking down Roe v. Wade, Jacobin columnist Ben Burgis spoke to socialist writer and organizer Lillian Cicerchia about how to build a successful abortion rights movement in the United States. Their conversation, which appeared on Burgis’s YouTube show, Give Them an Argument, has been edited for length and clarity.
Ben Burgis
What is the landscape after the Supreme Court decision?
Lillian Cicerchia
What’s coming is a world that’s geographically segregated in terms of access to reproductive health care services.
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