Local women’s, LGBT+ advocacy groups ‘enraged’ at Supreme Court ruling

A Glendale women’s advocacy group spoke out Friday after the Supreme Court’s controversial decision to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling that guaranteed a constitutional right to abortion.

YWCA Metropolitan Phoenix, an advocate in racial justice and civil rights, empowering women and girls, and for the health and safety of women and girls, for 50 years has been located in Glendale.

“This decision, to allow states to impose their own restrictions, impacts women and pregnant people’s ability to exercise bodily autonomy, to plan their futures, and to access opportunities in work and life. Today our country has regressed,” YWCA Metropolitan Phoenix CEO Debbie Esparza shared in an emailed statement Friday. “We have again allowed people sitting in office to make decisions about our bodies.”