For Immediate Release – June 23, 2025
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Women Are NOT Incubators! RefuseFascism Press Conference and Handmaids Procession on Third Anniversary of Overturning of Roe
When: June 24, 2025 at 5:45 pm
Where: Stanley Mosk Courthouse, 111 N. Hill St., Los Angeles 90012
What: Press Conference
Speakers:
Luna Hernandez, member of the Revcom Corps for the Emancipation of Humanity, facing charges for standing up for abortion rights in 2022, with trial starting in July.
Pastor Josh Johnson, Progressive Activist & LGBTQIA+ Advocate
Nancy Klein – feminist activist
June 24, 2025 marks the third anniversary of the Supreme Court decision which overturned Roe and took away the right to abortion for half the country. Now we are confronting a Supreme Court that has just ruled to deny Transgender people proper medical care. And today we deal with a fascist regime that has purged trans people from the military, and is abolishing the right to equality for women, LGBTQ+ people and anyone who isn’t white.
The MAGA movement does not believe in the right of the blue states to protect these rights. The Christian fundamentalists at the heart of their fascist movement will not rest until no woman has the right to control her own destiny. They are coming for birth control, gay marriage and do not care how many women will die. The world they want is not a future we can accept.
Demand all charges be dropped on Luna Hernandez who was arrested for protesting the overturning of Roe three years ago and is now facing trial. Details here: https://tr.ee/6AI8fF2Sg4
Luna Hernandez, a member of the Revcom Corps and former leader of RiseUp4AbortionRights says about this third year anniversary: “3 years of male supremacist patriarchal, Christian fascist violence. 3 years since women have been deemed through the law that they are less than human. And 3 years of women’s bodies being turned into incubators while they are condemned to death for not having access to their fundamental right to abortion. When abortion is illegal, women die, and women have died in the 3 years since Roe was overturned. And the blood of those women dying or nearly dying is on the hands of the Trump fascist regime, is on the hands of the Christian fascist majority Supreme Court appointed by Trump and is another reason why we in our millions must demand that the Trump fascist regime must go NOW!
“When they are federally indicting abortion doctors for sending abortion pills in the mail to teenagers in crisis in the south, when a Trump-appointed judge is now eliminating HIPAA, a policy which bars healthcare providers and insurance companies from sharing information about abortion or gender-affirming care with law enforcement, when a Christian fascist majority ruled Supreme Court has banned trans youth from accessing the healthcare they need and is trying to erase trans people from public life, when women like Adriana Smith, a Black woman in Georgia whose dead body became an incubator was cut open to “deliver” a baby she couldn’t have the ability to cherish or to hold ever again, what are you, what are we going to do?
“We refuse to accept a fascist America! We refuse to accept a handmaid’s tale future! Women are full human beings, LGBT people are full human beings! We must mark this 3-year anniversary not with despair, but with righteous determination, courage and inspiration. We must act in our millions to demand that the Trump fascist regime must go now because the lives of ALL of humanity depend on it.”
Nancy Klein has said about this anniversary: “It has been 3 years of increasing danger, dehumanization, and marginalization of females. It starts with right wing media reminding Americans where women “should” be. And then it turns into our rights ending and starting at state lines. And it ends back in the dark ages. So we say, “No.” (As all seasoned and yet-to-be feminists should know, “NO is a complete sentence.”)
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