It’s easy to say that millennials aren’t actively defending abortion rights. But it’s not true. In fact, the wide range of young people’s actions to preserve and advance access defies narrow definitions of "political activism."
“An attack to the Bowl-a-Thon website is an attack on the people who rely on us for help, and an attempt to cut-off resources to those who need them most,” wrote Yamani Hernandez, executive director of the National Network of Abortion Funds.
“Women of color and immigrant women already face significant obstacles to obtaining health care," Victoria Gómez Betancourt, spokesperson for the Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights, said at a news conference. "This means that any extra hoops and hurdles created by these bills will impact already marginalized women most of all."
Rather than allocating money toward licensed centers that could provide care from trained professionals, or toward strengthening social safety nets, Georgia is poised to join a slate of 22 other states directing public funds to crisis pregnancy centers.
With all the legal briefs filed to the Supreme Court and no solutions proposed, it's going to be up to the justices to put an end to the lawsuits swarming the Affordable Care Act.
All of the letter’s 56 signatories are people of color who have had abortions. They say the bill would force providers to interrogate patients’ reasons for seeking care and “erect a political divide” between patients and their physicians.
The release of the GOP’s platform caused controversy in 2012 for containing no official exceptions for a total ban on legal abortion across the country.
“If another liberal is nominated to the Court then even the reasonable restrictions on abortion, that have been enacted into law through the democratic process, these would be swept away,” said Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA).
Scott Anthony Orton's online threats against a Planned Parenthood partner company included, "StemExpress your lives don’t matter nearly as much as your deaths do."
Robert Raben, who once served as counsel to House Judiciary Committee, told lawmakers that the “volume of inaccurate and deceptive information thrown about” would give most prosecutors pause.
