Austin students rally in defense of abortion rights

Austin, TX – The Austin College students for a Democratic Society (SDS) organized a rally on the College of Texas at Austin on September 15 in protection of ladies’s and reproductive rights, as part of the Nationwide SDS Day of Motion. About 35 college students rallied at 6 p.m. on the nook of Speedway and twenty first Road on UT campus. Audio system from six different organizations gave speeches condemning the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the Texas Heartbeat Act.

The Texas Heartbeat Act (SB8) was handed in September final yr in preparation for the overturning of Roe v. Wade. It bans abortions when there are cells that can later kind a coronary heart detected within the embryo, or about three weeks right into a being pregnant.

“What is de facto wanted on this battle is sustained mass motion constructing and exercise within the streets that reveals that we demand reproductive rights,” Jake Holtzman of the Freedom Highway Socialist Group mentioned. “We are able to’t sit round and watch for politicians, we have to act proper now, as a result of we refuse to take one other step again!”

Austin SDS has been lively over the summer season and the start of the autumn semester in defending the proper to secure abortions and preventing SB8, each on campus and within the streets of Austin.

One Austin SDS member, Jules Lattirmore, spoke out through the rally: “Let’s additionally acknowledge how UT administration has been complicit in permitting the Texas abortion ban to move with out even making a single assertion towards it.”

Enraged by the actions of the unelected Supreme Court docket and the wildly unpopular SB8, college students broke out in chants of “Hey hey! Ho ho! The heartbeat payments have gotten to go!” and “Professional-life is a lie, they do not care if ladies die!” Through the rally, passerby college students joined the rally in solidarity, collaborating in chants and erupting in applause for the scholar audio system.