Thursday, June 30, 7pm at Revolution Books in Harlem

The Battle to Defend the Right to Abortion
SPECIAL FILM SHOWING AT REVOLUTION BOOKS: TRAPPED

The right to abortion is under siege. Abortion clinics across the country have been forced to close through unjust TRAP laws—Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers--and anti-abortion violence. Women and staff are shamed, harassed, and threatened.  Christian fascist politicians are fighting to shut down Planned Parenthood.

TRAPPED, the gripping new film from award-winning documentary filmmaker Dawn Porter, shows how the hundreds of new “TRAP” laws passed since 2011 have undermined women’s ability to obtain abortions. It is told through the eyes of doctors, clinic owners, and staff in Alabama and Texas, as well as lawyers, who are battling to keep reproductive health/abortion clinics open.

Thousands of women are once again risking their lives and prison to self-induce their own abortions. Eleven people have been murdered by anti-abortion terrorists. In Texas, more than half of the clinics open in 2013 have closed; the handful remaining in Alabama are struggling; and only one remains in Mississippi. The Supreme Court will be ruling on whether these laws are constitutional in the case Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, a decision that could further accelerate and legally certify the massive assault on women’s control over their bodies and lives.  

Without the right to decide for themselves when and whether to have children, without unencumbered access to birth control and abortion, women can never be free to participate fully and equally in every realm of society.

Join us for this film showing and discussion.

You cannot break all the chains, except one. You cannot say you want to be free of exploitation and oppression, except you want to keep the oppression of women by men. You can't say you want to liberate humanity yet keep one half of the people enslaved to the other half. The oppression of women is completely bound up with the division of society into masters and slaves, exploiters and exploited, and the ending of all such conditions is impossible without the complete liberation of women. All this is why women have a tremendous role to play not only in making revolution but in making sure there is all-the-way revolution. The fury of women can and must be fully unleashed as a mighty force for proletarian revolution.

Bob Avakian, BAsics 3:22