We have finally made it to current day.
Not much occurred in retrospect to women’s rights in 2020 as everyone was in lockdown and police brutality was finally addressed. In late 2021, talk began of revoking Roe v Wade.
Most can remember the protests that were held in D.C. in respects to Roe V. Wade. I remember a lot of girls from my area skipped a few days of school to go protest on the corner of a street that had CVS in my town. They also skipped to go protest at the capital of Pennsylvania. This change angered many women and people like before. From working on this blog this whole semester, I can see all the similarities from the situation then to now.
The women in the US have lost Roe v. Wade as we remember is what gave women access to safe abortions and blocked states from banning abortions. Once Roe v Wade was revoked, Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas made abortions illegal in their states. I remember hearing about a case in Ohio of a 12-year-old girl that was raped and became pregnant and because of Roe V. Wade being overturned, she would have had to cross state lines to have an abortion. 2022s governor elections were the final nail to a coffin if the people running were looking to ban abortion. In PA, former Govenor Tom Wolf was protecting women’s right of choice until his term was ending. Josh Shapiro is currently the governor elect support choice. He ran against Mastriano who made his campaign mostly about banning abortion in PA. As we know now, Shapiro won so abortion is remaining legal here. Along with Shapiro winning, the senate has majority democrat so more bills with aligning view are expected to be pass.
Although I mostly only covered the US women’s rights this whole blog, we have reached current time, so I’ll be adding so statistics from other countries and their women’s rights currently.
- In 29 countries, women cannot be the head of their household
- In 23 countries, girls can get married before they are 18
- In 41 countries, daughters cannot inherit items the same way their brothers can
- about 12 million girls every year are married off
- In 66 countries, the age for mandatory retirement is lower for women than it is for men
- In 71 countries, women are not entitled to paid maternity of 14 weeks
Thank you for reading my blog
Work Cited
Anglesey, Anders. “Roe v. Wade Protesters Are Mailing Coat Hangers to the Supreme Court.” Newsweek, Newsweek, 5 May 2022, https://www.newsweek.com/roe-v-wade-protesters-are-mailing-coat-hangers-supreme-court-1703894.
Throughout your passion blog I have found out some many new and important things I should have learned about women right so much earlier. I like how throughout your blog you gained more creditable sources and express all the controversial topics. I am definite more educated than before reading your blog about each decade on the Women’s Rights movement. Great Job! I actually was following this blog throughout the semester because I know how important this is to us as women.
I really like what you did here! I’m no expert in these issues, and I’m glad it was so clear. It’s interesting seeing how the original suffrage moment was not a squeaky clean movement, like how it’s often taught. It’s interesting seeing your take on current issues too, which admittedly don’t get much coverage. I know that Roe V. Wade is a contentious case, and from what I read, regardless of what you feel about what it says, many legal scholars agree the case itself is bad reasoning, and the decision was poorly reasoned. Regardless, amazing job!