Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision that laws regulating abortion belong to individual states in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the University released a statement disapproving of the Court’s decision and supporting abortion as an “essential and fundamental right.” The statement was published in an email by the Office of Diversity and Inclusion and The Gender + Sexuality Resource Center.
The statement expressed “dismay” that “people who can get pregnant…will no longer have that choice [of abortion].” The rejection of the term “women” to refer to individuals with uteruses has been subject to much debate on the progressive left. The statement called for special care for “Black and brown women” due to their “different intersections of identity.”
The statement concluded by noting that The Gender + Sexuality Resource Center’s “actively resists sexism, cissexism, heteronormativity, and other intersecting forms of oppression on campus and beyond.” The statement did not clarify how the Center intends to resist the Dobbs decision.
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