January 22nd is the 37th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that finally recognized a woman’s right to her own reproductive choices. With the election of a prochoice Democrat last November, many assumed that we might finally have some breathing room around the issue of abortion.

Instead, we’ve seen Stupak and Nelson trying to use the health care reform bills to restrict rights even further, and clinics around the country have seen increased aggression, culminating in the brutal murder of Dr. George Tiller. To fill us in on the abortion wars, we spoke to Silvia Henriquez, Executive Director of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (Ms. foundation for Women grantee), Carole Joffe, author of Dispatches from the Abortion Wars, and Lynn Paltrow, Executive Director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women (Ms. Foundation for Women grantee).

[Source: GRITtv]