‘No Better Moment to Use It’: Power of Women New York Honorees Urge Action in Face of Roe v. Wade Threat
variety.comCynthia Littleton Business EditorEven on a night to celebrate empowerment, the edge in the room was unmistakable.The shocking revelation this week that the U.S.
Supreme Court is moving to overturn Roe v. Wade was evident not only in the words from honorees and presenters at Variety’s Power of Women, presented by Lifetime, but also in the defiant spirit in which they were delivered.
The invitation-only event had the crowd on its feet more than once to pay tribute to the activism and philanthropic passions of prominent female leaders.Honoree Queen Latifah summed up the unsettled mood among millions of women now that the legal pillar that has ensured women in the U.S.
have access to legal abortion since 1973 could fall, thanks to the new conservative majority on the nation’s high court. “It is a very strange time for us,” Latifah observed. “There are a group of people who are trying to steal our power.
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