Laura McQuade, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Great Plains, said the Republican-backed bill is an “ideological attack” that is intended to “shame and stigmatize” pregnant people seeking abortion care.
"The study suggests that expanding access to abortion, not restricting it, is what is going to protect women’s mental health," said Dr. M. Antonia Biggs, a researcher with the Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health program at the University of California, San Francisco.
“Kasich’s actions today will fall hardest on low-income women, women of color, and young women,” said Kellie Copeland, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio. “History will not judge Gov. Kasich’s disregard for women’s health kindly.”
When we have a government that is determined to circumvent the rights of its own citizens and people worldwide, international standards and protections are critical.
The issuing of this statement signified to me that those of us who are angry and scared for Ohio's women, children, and families are not alone, and that our fears about abortion being outlawed are not irrational.
Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, said the GOP-backed rules mandating the burial or cremation of embryonic and fetal tissue are an "insult to Texas women."
"Ladies, your uteruses will be fine,” claimed the host on Thursday, apparently attempting to gloss over the abysmal record on reproductive rights and health espoused by the president-elect, the vice-president elect, and the motley crew of anti-choice hardliners they’ve lined up for their cabinet.
Earlier in his life, Andrew Puzder was also well-known for his work as an anti-choice attorney. In the 1980s, he helped author a sweeping piece of anti-choice legislation in Missouri that included radical “personhood” language defining life as beginning at conception.
