The second wave of feminism was an intersectional movement, that gained traction in the late 1960’s as a response to the contemporary issues of the time focusing primarily on rape culture, equality in the workplace and reproductive rights. In 1971, in an act of civil disobedience, the French writer Simon de Beauvoir, along with 343 other women penned “Manifesto of the 343” — a petition declaring they have had illegal abortion. At the time, abortion was illegal in France — a crime against the state, punishable by death penalty — thus admitting to it, they exposed themselves to criminal prosecution. Two years after the Manifesto was published, in 1973 American women were guaranteed the right to abortion, as per Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment. Consequently, the court found Texas laws criminalizing abortions as violative of women’s constitutional rights, the case that came to be known as