:quality(70)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tronc/NGCSDOHWCVA6TB7EGBHEQI6GHM.jpg "With Roe v. Wade reversal anticipated, Mayor Lori Lightfoot pledges 0K for abortion entry in Chicago")
Town of Chicago will spend $500,000 to assist abortion entry for residents and other people from neighboring states in anticipation of Roe v. Wade being overturned, Mayor Lori Lightfoot introduced Monday.
The cash will go towards transportation, lodging, care “and, if essential, protected and authorized entry to an abortion process,” Lightfoot stated.
Lightfoot’s pledge comes after a leaked draft of a Supreme Court docket ruling previewed the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion rights case. Reiterating a priority she first expressed after the opinion leaked, Lightfoot stated the case’s repeal may result in homosexual and interracial marriages being outlawed.
“The architects of this destruction won’t cease at a lady’s proper to decide on,” she stated in an announcement launched final week, the day the draft choice was first reported by Politico. “The Court docket’s draft opinion will set up a precedent for gutting the authorized underpinnings used to guard towards gender-based discrimination general together with ladies’s rights, trans rights, immigrant rights, and, in fact, the precise to same-sex and interracial marriage. This choice really epitomizes the risks that exist on the intersection of racism and sexism.”
Lightfoot introduced the brand new funding as a part of what town referred to as the “Justice for All Pledge,” made in direct response to the leaked draft of the Supreme Court docket ruling.
“This pledge indicators that the Metropolis will proceed to be a protected haven for all who’re unjustly denied the sources and alternatives they deserve; to struggle for the rights of all individuals; and to make sure that no individual shall be attacked, assaulted, bullied or discriminated towards due to who they’re, the alternatives they make concerning their bodily autonomy or who they love,” a information launch stated.
Because it pertains to reproductive well being, the pledge is to “defend and improve entry for all protected reproductive, obstetric and gynecological healthcare whatever the affected person’s age, intercourse, gender identification, race, incapacity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic standing, place of residence or immigration standing so as to assist the alternatives of all individuals to have or not bear kids on their phrases.”
