{"id":7512,"date":"2022-06-29T14:40:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T12:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniglobalunion.org\/?post_type=news&#038;p=7512"},"modified":"2022-07-14T16:40:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T14:40:44","slug":"uni-americas-womens-committee-condemns-attack-on-womens-rights-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/uniglobalunion.org\/news\/uni-americas-womens-committee-condemns-attack-on-womens-rights-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"UNI Americas Women\u2019s Committee condemns attack on women\u2019s rights in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the Supreme Court in the United States overturned the constitutional right to abortion access in that country, UNI Americas Women\u2019s Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/uniglobalunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/UNI-Americas-Womens-Committee-Declaration-on-the-Right-to-Abortion-ENG.pdf\">issued a statement<\/a> decrying the decision as an attack on women\u2019s rights, freedom of choice and a troubling turning back of the clocks.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>\u201cWe will not accept this step back into the past \u2013 we will fight back and support freedom of choice. This decision will affect working people particularly hard, because the right to abortion is being taken away from poor women,\u201d said UNI General Secretary Christy Hoffman. \u00a0\u201cI\u2019m worried about young women, like my daughter. How can she have less rights than I had? This decision does not represent the majority, and we are going to keep fighting.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>\u201cThe decision overturns decades of women&#8217;s gains in access to sexual and reproductive services and reinforces an already alarming trend around the world where governments legislate and limit women&#8217;s rights,\u201d read the statement.<\/p>\r\n<p>Data shows that restricting access to abortion does not reduce the number of abortions. In fact, restrictions are more likely to push women towards unsafe procedures. According to World Health Organization data, in countries where abortions are most restricted, only 1 in 4 abortions are safe, compared to nearly 9 in 10 in countries where the procedure are widely legal.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>Banning abortions can result in unsafe procedures that are accompanied by physical and mental complications, as well as social and economic burdens for women, affecting communities and health care systems. This decision will deepen systemic inequality and make it harder to build strong democracies. \u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>On behalf of millions of women service sector workers, the Women\u2019s Committee opposed any measure that undermines women&#8217;s human rights and emphasized that these attacks are part of a pattern of extreme right-wing rhetoric that exploits women to advance their political agendas. \u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>Before the anticipated ruling, UNI&#8217;s World Women&#8217;s Committee issued <a href=\"https:\/\/uniglobalunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Declaration-on-Womens-Right-to-Self-Determination-and-Freedom-of-Choice-in-the-USA.pdf\">a declaration on the right of self-determination and freedom of choice of the women in the United States<\/a>, warning that overturning the right to abortion would\u00a0reinforce an already alarming tendency across the world where other governments deem it necessary to legislate and limit women\u2019s rights, such as the case of Poland, which banned 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