“Trump put out a statement on one such area and conspicuously left out all of the other ones,” said a Washington, D.C.-based advocate for LGBTQ rights. “He doesn't get a cookie for deciding to move us zero steps forward, especially when he's considering taking us five steps back.”
Learn what’s going on in your state, and advocate for your rights and the rights of your community so that nobody is left behind, say reproductive rights advocates.
The New York state-based Fidelis refuses to cover a range of reproductive health services that conflict with directives from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, including abortion, sterilization, and most forms of birth control.
"Trump took the oath, but he didn't take the steps necessary to ensure that he and his family’s business interests comply with the Constitution and other federal statutes,” said Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY) and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) introduced the Global Health, Empowerment, and Rights (HER) Act a day after Trump, surrounded by men, signed the sweeping executive order in one of his first acts as president.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo's announcement is the latest move by New York officials to shore up reproductive health-care access during the anti-choice Trump administration.
Rep. Tom Price (R-GA), who has voted to defund Planned Parenthood, denied the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office's finding that almost 400,000 people could lose access to care if Planned Parenthood was defunded.
When Rewire asked why her family was at the Women’s March on Washington, Layla Abdus-Salaam, 13, said, “I think a lot of people will see how we protest, and how we’re coming together as a community, and how we’re going to express how we feel.”
"Personhood" laws would criminalize abortion with no exception and ban many forms of contraception, in vitro fertilization, and health care for pregnant people.
