Buffalonians marched together in solidarity to fight Texas's abortion ban law - The Record
A Women’s March from Prospect Park to Niagara Square took place on Sunday at 2 p.m. in response to the Texas abortion law.
This is just one of many marches nationwide after Senate Bill 8, which bans most abortions at approximately six weeks, was signed by Gov. Greg Abbott.
Most people do not know they are pregnant at this stage, nor does it grant “exceptions for rape, sexual abuse, incest, and fetal anomaly diagnoses,” according to Planned Parenthood.
The event was hosted by Saumya Gilra; Chelsea Derrick; Jennifer Page who is also known as Queen City Feminist and Julia Stevens.
“I have always been a proud feminist as a brown woman and have been affected by many aspects of sexism,” Gilra said in an email.
Those who arrived early had the opportunity to make signs for the protest.
After signs were made, there were a few guest speakers including Arjae, a member of the Workers World Party, a Marxist-Leninist group that adheres to “conceptions on the need for a democratic centralist party that supports national self-determination of all oppressed peoples.”
“Controlling people’s wombs is a vulgar expression of white supremacism and genocide. Where I grew up in Oklahoma as many as 50 percent of Native American women were sterilized in the 1970s without their consent by doctors sometimes before they even hit puberty,” Arjae said. “Texas is waving assault on bodily autonomy right now.”
The member also pointed out how issues surrounding the LGBTQ+ community, people of color, and women, all intersect.
India Walton, the mayoral candidate running against incumbent Mayor Byron Brown, also attended the Women’s March.
“100 years after the suffrage movement, after New York state codified Roe v. Wade, we are still seeing the gutting of women’s reproductive rights, and that ain’t right,” Walton spoke. “It is not appropriate for people without uteruses to be making decisions on the behalf of those who have them.”
The march ended at Niagara Square where more speeches were given by speakers including Debora Hernandez of Planned Parenthood, Stevens and Derrick discussing the consequences of the bill and encouraging the audience to advocate for reproductive justice.
What began and ended as a safe space, the march concluded with a few anonymous abortion stories being shared with the crowd as well.
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