Jon Ossoff will compete in a runoff election against Karen Handel, who says she wants to be "a trusted partner" of anti-choice organizations looking to erode access to abortion care.
“It will fundamentally change how abortion is accessed in Iowa, and not for the better," said Elizabeth Nash, senior state issue manager at the Guttmacher Institute.
A review of the candidates supported by the Congressional Leadership Fund in 2016 reveals a stringently anti-choice roster whose positions on abortion can hardly be considered centrist.
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy's majority opinion in Gonzales helped usher in a new wave of anti-choice language that still resonates to this day.
Millions of dollars will be cut from the United Nations' Population Fund—all due to bogus recycled claims that it supported forced sterilization and abortion overseas.
One of the GOP-backed anti-abortion laws threatened to close two of the six abortion clinics in Tennessee, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights.
"The longer you’re undocumented, the more stigma there is. It’s like you’re ‘too undocumented’ for health care; you can’t afford it—not the time off, not the time away from earning, none of it,” Concepcion, an immigrant woman from Chicago, told Rewire.
“It leaves me to wonder things like, if church members from this church decide to go protest outside of a clinic, does their police force come with them?” said Danielle Hurd, Alabama state organizer with Unite for Reproductive and Gender Equity.
"Now is the time to be proactive and affirmative in protecting and expanding women's access to affordable health care," said Tom Perriello, the target of criticism from some pro-choice advocates.
