"Governor Bryant just signed a clear attack on women's health care as part of a plan to ban abortion across the board,” said Dawn Laguens, executive vice president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Reproductive rights and justice advocates, including Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America, have spent months demanding Democratic debate moderators address abortion, organizing around the hashtag #AskAboutAbortion.
In a pair of motions filed Thursday, attorneys for the anti-choice operative accuse prosecutors of improperly manipulating the grand jury process to secure an indictment against Daleiden.
Despite the ongoing attention to restricting abortion, legislators in several states are looking to expand access to sexual and reproductive health services and education.
Accolades and honors do little when a culture of martyrdom—the discouragement to prioritize one’s own emotional and mental health—reigns in the lives of activists.
"It's despicable that anti-choice terrorism knows no bounds," said Laurie Bertram Roberts, board president of the Mississippi Reproductive Freedom Fund. "They feel emboldened to harass patients at clinics, stalk and harass doctors and clinic staff and their new weapon is cyber terrorism."
The Supreme Court ordered the Obama administration and religiously affiliated nonprofits to work out a solution to the challenges to the Affordable Care Act's birth control benefit. Not surprisingly, the religiously affiliated nonprofits refuse to do so.
An anti-choice group has launched what a lawsuit describes as a “campaign of harassment, intimidation, and invasion of privacy" in hopes of disrupting Planned Parenthood's operations.
“This legislation would be a step back for women,” said Gov. Tom Wolf, who has vowed to veto the anti-choice measure. “This legislation would be a huge step back for Pennsylvania.”
