Lawmakers in many states have passed restrictions on abortion care in recent years. Elizabeth Nash of the Guttmacher Institute told Rewire that this may push legislators to either heighten the severity of those restrictions or pass even more extreme ones that erode abortion care access.
Whether or not you agree with the sentiments flying across the internet, one thing is certain: Dunham has reignited a public conversation about abortion.
If we let the election extinguish our inner fire and vision of a just future, then that's worse than anything we lost at the polls in terms of votes or anything coming down the pike in the next four years, said Jill Adams, chief strategist for the Self-Induced Abortion Legal Team.
Studying the GOP's 2016 playbook is crucial to understanding what’s to come in the year ahead. Doing so also reveals Democrats’ strategies for taking a proactive approach on reproductive justice.
Irrespective of prior failures to use the Kermit Gosnell case to incite the public, the anti-choice movement is now trying again, with a docudrama titled Gosnell, ostensibly to be released in early 2017.
2016 brought in a ton of reproductive rights victories, plus one significant punt by the U.S. Supreme Court that could help Republicans in their efforts to overturn the Affordable Care Act. And 2017 is looking like another big year.
This is no time to abandon the current Democratic Party platform in order to welcome with open arms those who vote to restrict reproductive rights, including votes against proactive advancements in access to care.
Sen. A.J. Griffin (R-Guthrie), the senate sponsor of the so-called Humanity of the Unborn Child Act (HB 2797), proposed an amendment to the law that would require the signs only be posted at facilities that provide abortion services.
The House Freedom Caucus is targeting the Obama administration’s recent Title X clarification that says states cannot block funding for reproductive health-care providers that supply abortion care.
