The Women’s March 2023 will mark the anniversary of Roe v. put on calf

PORTLAND, Ore. – Women’s marches demanding protection of abortion rights will draw thousands of people across the country on Sunday, the 50th anniversary of the now-overturned Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, which established a federal abortion law.

Organizers said they are now focusing on states after the Supreme Court in June sparked a lifting of abortion restrictions and near-outright bans in more than a dozen states.

“We go where the struggle is, and that’s at the state level,” the women’s march website says. The group has dubbed this year’s rallies “Bigger than Roe.”

The main march will take place in Madison, Wisconsin, where the upcoming state Supreme Court election could determine the balance of power on the court and the future of abortion rights in the state.

Abortions are not available in Wisconsin due to legal uncertainties faced by abortion clinics.

Two days ago the annual March for Life pulled Tens of thousands of freshly awakened anti-abortion activists head to Washington, DC Anti-abortion activists are increasingly turning their attention to Congress with a view to pushing for a potential national abortion restriction across the board.

In the absence of federal protection from Roe v. Wade, abortion rights have become a patchwork quilt from state to state. Officials in some states have grappled with laws banning abortions that date back to the 18th century and were still on the books.

In Wisconsin, abortion clinics are facing legal questions over whether an 1849 law banning the procedure is in effect. The law, which bans abortions except to save the patient’s life, is being challenged in court.

Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul, with the support of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, filed a challenge to the 1849 ban in Dane County, where Madison is located, in June, arguing that it was too old to enforce. The two sides have exchanged briefs since then and it’s unclear when a verdict will be reached, but the case appears destined to end up in the state Supreme Court.

The conservative-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court, which has handed down subsequent rulings in favor of Republicans for decades, is likely to hear the case. Races for the court are officially bipartisan, but candidates have sided with either Conservatives or Liberals for years as the competitions have become expensive partisan battles.

Evers, who has placed abortion at the center of his campaign for reelection for governor, has on several occasions urged the Republican-controlled legislature to put the decision on abortion in the hands of voters. Republican leaders have expressed a willingness to introduce exceptions to the law in cases of rape or incest, but Evers is adamant he won’t sign the law except for the protections that existed under Roe.

Beyond Wisconsin, women’s rallies are expected to be held in almost every state on Sunday.

The Women’s March has become a regular event — despite being paused by the coronavirus pandemic — since millions of women across the United States and around the world took part the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration in January 2017.

Trump made the appointment of conservative judges a mission of his presidency. The three conservative justices he appointed to the US Supreme Court – Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett – all voted to overthrow Roe v. Calf.

Associated Press writer Harm Venhuizen contributed reporting from Madison, Wisconsin.