{"id":6334,"date":"2021-10-08T17:50:36","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T22:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=6334"},"modified":"2021-10-08T17:50:36","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T22:50:36","slug":"roanoke-marches-against-reproductive-injustice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=6334","title":{"rendered":"Roanoke Marches Against Reproductive Injustice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6335\" src=\"https:\/\/bka.roanoke.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/womens-march-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/womens-march-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/womens-march-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/womens-march-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/womens-march.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Written by Devon Mitchell<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Saturday, October 2<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nd<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, more than 600 marchers took to the streets of Roanoke amid worries of the recent abortion laws in Texas. Hundreds of other marches took place across the U.S. rallying women\u2019s rights activists together to express their disdain with the restrictive reproductive laws in Texas, two days before the Supreme Court was set to reconvene to discuss hot button issues including abortion rights.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Roanoke\u2019s Women March and Roanoke Indivisible rallied together to organize Saturday\u2019s march at River\u2019s Edge Park. Roanoke College\u2019s Dr. Wallace Fuentes of the history department was one of the march\u2019s organizers. In an ABC 13 News article, Dr. Wallace Fuentes was quoted saying, \u201cWe are here to defend our rights to reproductive healthcare at every stage in our life.&#8221;\u00a0 (ABC News, 2021).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the march, women shared their own stories of sexual assault, rape, and how reproductive freedom has affected them. One of the speakers stated an assault on reproductive rights is both a \u201cwar on women\u201d and a \u201cwar on constitutional human rights\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Washington D.C., celebrities and citizens participated in a \u201csister march\u201d while maintaining COVID safety by wearing masks and practicing social distancing. Comedian Cristela Alonzo hosted a rally attended by stars like Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Schumer. Like Roanoke, speakers at the D.C. march took center stage, speaking on the importance of abortion rights.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Saturday marked a historic day across the U.S. for women. Hundreds of thousands of women came together to show the government they have no say in how they manage their own bodies. The battle on reproductive rights continues, and the most recent march is a small victory to be won.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Devon Mitchell On Saturday, October 2nd, more than 600 marchers took to the streets of Roanoke amid worries of the recent abortion laws in Texas. Hundreds of other marches took place across the U.S. rallying women\u2019s rights activists together to express their disdain with the restrictive reproductive laws in Texas, two days before&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-6334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-summer2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}