Now that anti-choicers have moved the fight to contraception in a dramatic way, it's tempting to stop defending abortion altogether. But we need to make sure we're defending all women's rights.
DC Abortion Fund helps women whose Medicaid-funding for abortion was pulled at the last minute; Florida senate wants to subject Medicaid funding for contraception to religious refusals; and Sen. Manchin thinks showing that no Title X money is spent on abortion will solve something.
This language of “informed consent” merely serves as a thinly veiled attempt at shaming women who seek abortion, a shaming made all the more hypocritical when carried out in the supposed name of women’s health and safety.
Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Planned Parenthood Action Fund, talks with Rachel Maddow about the Republican disinformation campaign in its attack on women's health services.
