When I was asked to come to Mississippi about three weeks ago to organize students against Initiative 26 or the “personhood” Amendment I honestly did not know if we even had a chance of winning. The amendment could have made abortion illegal and banned most forms of birth control including the pill. With Mississippi being [...]
Last Friday, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, activist Leymah Gbowee of Liberia, and pro-democracy activist Tawakkul Karman of Yemen, were awarded the covenant Nobel Peace Prize, “for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work”. They share this honor not just as three women, [...]
On Wednesday September 28, hundreds of pro-choice supporters gathered for the “We’ve Had Enough” rally in the Rotunda of the Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg, PA to protest SB 732 or the Health Care Facilities Act, which is a Targeted Regulation of Abortion Provider (TRAP) law. SB 732 would make abortion care inaccessible to millions [...]
Wednesday at the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), about 200 students, faculty, community members, politicians and activists gathered for an electrifying speak out against the Virginia TRAP laws. The Speak Out Against Virginia’s TRAP Laws blog describes the TRAP laws as “a bill that classifies women’s health centers in the state as a category of hospitals, [...]
This is part of the #Hervotes Blog Carnival. The Feminist Majority Foundation and Ms. Magazine are partnering with other organizations that represent women and people of color in a Health and Economic Right or HERvotes initiative for the election in 2012. FMF’s Campus Team is gearing up together with HERvotes for its Get Out Her [...]
Not again. Another anti-abortion billboard was put on display by the Restoration Project in Atlanta last week, this time targeting African American leader Jesse Jackson. The billboard reads “What does it mean to be betrayed?” with “betrayed” written in blood-scripted letters. What’s even more insulting is The Restoration Project’s domain for their website: www.abortioninthehood.com. It [...]
Last week, Feminist Majority Foundation afforded me an amazing opportunity to attend the 2011 Sister Song “Let’s Talk About Sex: Love Legislation and Leadership” conference in Miami, Florida from July 13-17. Sister Song is a reproductive justice non-profit for women of color that is a conglomerate of 80 local and national grassroots organizations that target [...]
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