While anti-choice governors and attorneys general have taken advantage of the widespread sense of urgency to contain the COVID-19 pandemic to yet again limit abortion access, abortion advocates have pushed for telemedicine prescriptions for mifepristone and misoprostol, the drugs commonly used together in medical abortions. Allowing physicians to prescribe these medications via telemedicine would save […]
Abortion Care IS Essential Healthcare
As cases of the Coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, continue to rage on throughout most of the United States, so are anti-abortion officials chomping-at-the-bit to use this global crisis, state’s emergency policies, and the presence of group-fear to put an end to safe and legal abortion access.
Safe and Legal Abortion Access Should Not Depend on Your Zip Code
Today the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments for June Medical Services v. Russo to analyze the unconstitutionality of Louisiana’s admitting privileges law. Since 2001, anti-abortion politicians have pushed nearly 450 restrictive laws through legislatures that range from outright bans to medically unnecessary regulations, and humiliating hoops to clinic shutdowns. The issue of states creating […]
#MyRightMyDecision: Join Us at the Supreme Court to Rally for Abortion Access
ACTION ALERT: Rally with us tomorrow, Wednesday, March 4, from 8AM–11:30AM at the U.S. Supreme Court to protect #MyRightMyDecision and abortion access! Tomorrow the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments for June Medical Services v. Russo and will decide whether Louisiana’s admitting privileges law (Act 620) is unconstitutional based on the precedent […]
On the Day of the March for Life, the Fight Continues to Keep Abortion Safe and Legal
Abortion is a hot-button issue as well as extremely emotional for many. Roe v. Wade (1973) itself says that “We forthwith acknowledge our awareness of the sensitive and emotional nature of the abortion controversy, of the vigorous opposing views, even among physicians, and of the deep and seemingly absolute convictions that the subject inspires…” We’re […]
A #RoeDay Reflection
Throughout the long, and often frustrating, history of feminist activism, January 22, 1973 ranks at the top of the list of the most important days for women’s rights in the U.S. (competing with other critical dates such as August 18, 1920–happy suffrage centennial!) Because on this day in 1973, the United States Supreme Court made […]
25 Feminist Resolutions to Kick Off the Decade
If you’re a goals-oriented person (or are trying to become one), starting with a blank slate of goals can be a great way to ring in the new year and say goodbye to the 2010’s. Kick off the decade by adding some of these feminist resolutions for 2020 to your list: Personal Resolutions Take (better) […]
Will the Real Abortion Expert Please Stand Up?
Thursday, November 14, the House Oversight and Reform Committee held a hearing to examine how state policies impact access to comprehensive reproductive health services, including abortion. Congressman William Lacy Clay from Missouri requested the hearing after reports that the state’s Department of Health and Senior Services had been keeping a spreadsheet tracking the menstrual cycles […]
37 Years Later…
Yesterday, the United States House Judiciary Committee considered H.J. Resolution 79, legislation to remove one of the few barriers left to finally add the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution: the 1982 deadline for ratification. First proposed almost a century ago and passed by Congress in 1972, the ERA was ratified by only 35 of […]
Boots on the Ground: How Student Activism Aided the Block of an Abortion Ban in Alabama
Earlier this year, Alabama’s State House passed one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the nation: The Human Life Protection Act. This ban criminalized abortion providers, giving them 10-99 years in a state prison for performing an abortion. Masked under a “pro-life” agenda, the authors of this bill disregarded the impacts it would have […]
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