CLEVELAND, Ohio-Women's March Cleveland, as a sister march to several marches slated in cities nationwide for Saturday, April 15, 2003 under the leadership of Women's March National, will rally for reproductive rights and against a decision last week by an Amarillo,Texas judge that outlawed the Food and Drug Administrations's longstanding abortion pill, which is officially dubbed mifepristone. The event is from noon-2 pm at 10001 Chester Avenue on Cleveland's east side near Walgreens, which is under fire for refusing to sell the abortion pill in Ohio and some 19 other states where GOP officials have threatened litigation. (For more information contact Women's March Cleveland at (216) 659-0473) The national women's march will also rally in Washington, D.C., the nation's capital

While a Washington State federal judge, following last week's Amarillo, Texas ruling, issued a counter ruling in support of the abortion pill, women's rights advocates are taking to the streets this weekend to fight for reproductive and Civil Rights for women and to try to stem the tide of attacks on women's reproductive rights.

More specifically on the Texas ruling, Trump-appointed federal judge Matthew Kacsmaryk has withdrawn the FDA's approval for mifepristone, one of the pills used in the medication abortion regimen. This medication has been used safely and very effectively for decades.

The two countering abortion pill rulings come on the heels last summer of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v Wade and relegate the authority to either restrict or outright outlaw abortion to the country's respective state legislatures, most of them Republican- dominated general assemblies.

Activists women, particularly of greater Cleveland, and Cleveland, a largely Black major American city, say that fascist judges like Kacsmaryk should keep their hands off abortion medication mIifepriston and other FDA approved reproductive medications. To date more than 14 states have criminalized abortion, including Ohio. Per its state legislature it has a six-week abortion ban that is on hold after a court ruling that is being challenged by state attorney general Dave Yost, a Republican.

Women's March Cleveland organizers say that absent major public outcry such a decision in Texas would likely be upheld by the same conservative-leaning Supreme Court that overturned Roe v Wade and that given that medication abortions make up more than half of all abortions in the country such a ban would be catastrophic. To the contrary, pro-life supporters say their cause is viable too. Nonetheless, it is clear that the fight for abortion access in America is ongoing, and contentious at best.