EVENTS: “THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW,” KIDS TRIATHLON 20 ART REVIEW: “ROCHESTER-FINGER LAKES EXHIBITION” 19 FILM: “CAPTAIN AMERICA,” “FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS” 26 URBAN JOURNAL: TEA PARTY NATION?
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Amy LaVere • Bush • Big Gigantic • Josh Netsky • Girl Talk • Steely Dan • and more music, page 12
July 27 - AUGUST 2, 2011 Free
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Greater Rochester’s Alternative Newsweekly
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Vol 40 No 46
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News. Music. Life.
It’s sort of a Department of Health certification given by a ‘higher authority.’” DINING, PAGE 11
Gay marriage: License to wed. NEWS, PAGE 5
Get used to Bolgen Vargas. NEWS, PAGE 5
Zoning divides city, neighborhoods. NEWS, PAGE 6
Nominations open for Rochester Theater Hall of Fame. DETAILS, PAGE 23
COVER STORY | BY JEREMY MOULE | PAGE 8 | ILLUSTRATION BY MATT DETURCK
Reproductive rights: the new activists States passed a record number of abortion and family planning restrictions in the first half of 2011. The abortion battle has intensified since the 2010 elections, when many statehouses came under Republican control. Those legislatures and governors have attacked family planning funding and imposed new restrictions on abortion providers. The generations born after Roe v. Wade have never known a country without legal abortion. The Supreme Court’s 1973 landmark decision declared that the due-process clause of the 14th Amendment covers “a woman’s qualified right to terminate her pregnancy.”
The decision didn’t end the controversy, of course. Abortion and reproductive rights as a whole have always been among the most polarizing topics facing the nation. And citizens and elected officials have sought to impose restrictions, whether on abortion itself or access to it, right from the beginning. But the recent wave of attacks has put new generations — some Gen-Xers and Millennials — in the position where it’s up to them to fight for their reproductive rights if they want to keep them.