Local governments and public officials should look to the reproductive rights and HIV and AIDS movements for insights into the ways in which they can more effectively center the needs of those most marginalized while fighting the Zika virus outbreak.
In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda launched an ad campaign to call out Rep. Sean Duffy’s (R-WI) suggestion that members of the Congressional Black Caucus aren’t “standing up for their communities” if they support abortion access.
The measure hinges on the unsubstantiated notion that a fetus at 20 weeks' gestation feels pain, despite an exhaustive scientific review saying that's simply not the case.
Carol Sanger, a professor of law at Columbia University and an expert in the proliferation of abortion restrictions, told Rewire that she was surprised by how the bill was handled in the Tennessee house. She has not seen lawmakers in other states proceed with such trepidation.
