Critics of the program dispute Attorney General Ken Paxton’s claim that the success of the program is “not dependent on Planned Parenthood’s participation."
Cutting Planned Parenthood out of the Medicaid program harms the 7,000 Medicaid patients who visit Planned Parenthood health centers every year in Missouri, leaving them with few options to access preventive health care.
Southerners on New Ground hopes that the organizing strategies it is developing in partnership with the Transgender Law Center will provide guidance to other organizations in the bailout coalition that are also facing difficulties finding trans and gender nonconforming folks to bail out.
Forty percent of LGBTQ respondents of color reported their employer has LGBTQ-inclusive leave policies, while 27 percent say they are afraid to request time off to care for a loved one because it might disclose their LGBTQ identity.
The legislation serves as an "organizing tool" that could "lay the groundwork" for the repeal of Colorado's ban on public abortion funding, said Karla Gonzales Garcia, director of Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights.
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