Activists with World Can't Wait joined Stop Patriarchy in San Francisco on Saturday, in an emergency response to the deadly attack on a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic the previous day. Marchers engaged shoppers and tourists around the heavily trafficked intersection of Powell and Market Streets, carrying signs and distributing literature in support of abortion rights and women's lives.

Each year on the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion, tens of thousands of anti-abortion fanatics descend on DC and San Francisco in their March for "Life."

Across the country, abortion rights are in a state of emergency.

In recent years: Dozens of abortion clinics have been forced to close from Texas to Virginia to Arizona and Ohio and beyond. Hundreds of anti-abortion restrictions have been passed. Anti-abortion terror has continued with harassment, threats, stalking, and the destruction of clinics. Women are once again risking their lives to self-abort.

Austin August 6, 2014

Join with Merle Hoffman (CEO of Choices Women's Medical Center in New York City), Carol Downer (founder of Feminist Women's Health Center in Los Angeles), Rev. Donna Schaper (senior minister at Judson Memorial Church, NYC), Sikivu Hutchinson (Black feminist atheist author), Diane Derzis (owner of the last abortion clinic in Mississippi), and Sunsara Taylor (writer for Revolution, Stop Patriarchy; fighter for abortion rights since 1995) in signing and publishing this new statement:

We Appeal to All Who Care for Women: We Must Resist Now!

StopPatriarchy.org condemns in the strongest possible terms the outrageous ruling by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on October 31^st which will have the effect of immediately closing down abortion services at as many as 13 clinics throughout Texas!

This past summer, StopPatriarchy.org led a 15 state, one month long Abortion Rights Freedom Ride caravan responding to the state of emergency surrounding abortion rights nationwide. But that was just a beginning.

Upon our arrival into Little Rock, Arkansas, the state with the most restrictive abortion laws in the country, we received a message from a member of ‘Personhood Arkansas’ who assured us that our visit was not welcome by her and her organization.

Find out more about the Abortion Rights Freedom Ride at stoppatriarchy.org.