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.
In About Abortion, Carol Sanger examines post-Roe laws and court cases that have had implications for abortion restrictions directly or indirectly to make her case that normalizing abortion could end this compulsory silence.
Withdrawing the rule hinders the ability of four million Title X patients, including 1.5 million Planned Parenthood patients, to access quality, affordable health care.
“This administration clearly does not put evidence before political ideology, so the link between Kellyanne Conway and the fraudulent Center for Medical Progress is not surprising,” said Jodi Magee, president and CEO of Physicians for Reproductive Health.
LGBTQ people and those with low incomes, especially women of color, rely on Obamacare's birth control benefit and other preventive services, but advocates say the Trump administration is targeting their ability to access health care, even if Republicans can't repeal the law entirely.
Attack ads tried to tap into the GOP’s fervent anti-abortion base by claiming Democrat James Thompson supports taxpayer-funded sex selective and later abortion care.
The American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Public Health Association have published studies and policy statements opposing restricting minors’ access to abortion care.
