1.
|
What does NARAL Pro-Choice New Mexico do?
|
NARAL Pro-Choice New Mexico is a grassroots movement focused on guaranteeing every woman the right to make personal decisions regarding the full range of reproductive choices, including preventing unintended pregnancy, bearing healthy children, and choosing legal abortion.
We accomplish this through public education, citizen lobbying, and pro-choice voter mobilization. Our focus is both national and statewide.
[ back to top ]
|
2.
|
How do I get involved?
|
By contacting us! NARAL Pro-Choice New Mexico is only as strong as its volunteers and activists. To find out how you can help, visit our Get Involved page.
[ back to top ]
|
3.
|
ROE v. WADE: What Does It Mean?
|
On January 22, 1973, the United States Supreme Court voted 7-2 to strike down a Texas law prohibiting abortion, citing that it violated a woman's right to privacy. This landmark decision is known as Roe v. Wade.
The Ruling Found:
States are forbidden to interfere with a woman's access to abortion during the 1st trimester of pregnancy.
States can only regulate 2nd trimester abortions to protect a woman's health.
States can ban 3rd trimester abortions except if a woman's life is in jeopardy.
A fetus is not protected as a "person" under the 14th amendment.
A woman's right to choose is a fundamental right and has the highest level of Constitutional protection.
[ back to top ]
|
4.
|
Is Roe v. Wade in jeopardy?
|
Yes. President Bush signed the so-called 'Partial Birth Abortion Ban' in November of this year, becoming the first president to criminalize safe abortion procedures.
In the last abortion-related case, the Supreme Court was split 5-4. It has been seven years since the last vacancy on the Supreme Court, the longest period in 178 years. George W. Bush will likely nominate 2-3 individuals who will serve as Supreme Court Justices.
Bush has touted Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, the Court's most avid opponents of Roe, as his model justices. With an anti-choice majority on the Supreme Court, a case designed to overturn Roe v. Wade would almost certainly be brought forward immediately. Because the U.S. Senate must approve judicial nominees, Bush is likely to see the newly Republican and anti-choice controlled Senate as an opportunity to push through the most anti-choice nominees he can.
An overturning of Roe would automatically make abortion illegal in 15 states and the District of Columbia, where pre-Roe abortion bans are still on the books and would once be enforced. Fights to ban abortion would pop up in the rest of the country.
[ back to top ]
|
5.
|
Is the pro-choice movement only about abortion?
|
No, the pro-choice movement encompasses a broad range of women's reproductive rights.
We not only believe women should be able to make their own decision about abortion, we work to reduce the need for abortion through increased access to family planning and comprehensive sex education.
NARAL Pro-Choice New Mexico works to protect & improve access to the full range of reproductive health care options.
[ back to top ]
|
