The Women’s Opportunity Center Protests End of the Constitutional Right to Abortion and Reproductive Freedom

Since its inception over forty years ago, the Women’s Opportunity Center of Tompkins and Onondaga Counties has championed the well-being of all women. On Friday, June 24, 2022, women residing in the United States suffered an assault that fundamentally altered their legal status based on their reproductive organs.

The attack came in the form of the Supreme Court’s ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. Safe, affordable, medically supervised abortion services, which are vital to women’s overall health care, will now be radically restricted or denied to more than half the women of childbearing age residing in this country. This at a time when the United States has the highest maternal mortality rate among industrialized nations.

By explicitly stripping a woman of the right to control what happens to her body, the court threw out a fundamental freedom that is protected in most liberal democracies. And we’re already witnessing the immoral consequences of this decision, which unfairly penalizes poor, rural, Black, Indigenous and LGBTQIA+ women.

As an organization dedicated to promoting equality, we believe it’s time for a constitutional amendment guaranteeing a woman’s right to reproductive freedom. Without such protection the dismantling of Roe v. Wade translates into thousands of women being forced to accept coerced motherhood--an indecent assault hiding behind a reasoned legal argument.

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The Women's Opportunity Center (WOC) is a not-for-profit organization that advocates for women reaching their career goals by also helping women obtain the future they’ve always dreamt about by earning economic stability & the freedom they desire! In doing so, achieving the work/life balance we so desperately deserve.

Focusing on economically-disadvantaged women, WOC assists in removing barriers to employment by providing certified services and training with individualized coaching, access to financial and computer literacy development, health and wellness coaching, career pathing recommendations, scholarships, professional attire, and a plethora of resource knowledge.