The Black church is not a monolith and cannot be spoken for by any singular ideological voice. Those who try only manage to reduce the church to a one-dimensional caricature of itself that is neither accurate nor productive for discussions about the real needs in Black communities and the lives of “the poor.”
Poll results suggest Latino/a support for unfettered access to abortion care, with more than half saying that the wave of abortion restrictions enacted since 2010 was "a step in the wrong direction."
Susan B. Anthony List on Monday announced a last-minute six-figure digital ad buy in Missouri and North Carolina, in an effort to reach 550,000 anti-choice “low propensity voters multiple times online.”
From a legislator who declared himself a "former fetus" to another who compared Planned Parenthood to ISIS, lawmakers instrumental in the passage of anti-choice laws will be on the ballot this Election Day.
The Affordable Care Act allows states to ban abortion coverage by insurance plans in the marketplace. Twenty-five states have adopted this policy, though Maine is not one of them.
Vermont's Republican gubernatorial nominee Phil Scott has said he opposes so-called partial-birth abortions—a non-medical term coined by anti-choice groups in an effort to make abortion restrictions easier to pass—and would support a fetal homicide bill.
The Russell Amendment follows in the tradition of measures that purport to protect religious freedom at the expense of marginalized groups, while actually codifying the imposition of religious beliefs on others.
"This is not the 'Holy Inquisition!' This is the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador in the 21st century, with sufficient knowledge to make decisions," said Lorena Peña, the current president of the Legislative Assembly, when introducing a bill to decriminalize abortion in some circumstances.
