HB 2 went into partial effect in 2013 and forced patients to endure a mandatory delay of 24 hours before their abortion procedure. It also required abortion clinics to undergo costly renovations to become ambulatory surgical centers (ASC). If the Supreme Court doesn’t intervene in this case, it is estimated that these restrictions will leave Texas with only 9 clinics for more than five million women of reproductive age.
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Planned Parenthood Funding Comes Under Attack on Capitol Hill
During her statements, Rep. Brenda Lawrence called the hearing “exhausting” and “insulting” and reiterated that Planned Parenthood receives reimbursement for services to Medicaid patients and explained that if there weren’t Medicaid patients going to Planned Parenthood, there would not be reimbursements. Later, Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman expressed confusion over the purpose of the hearing, whether it was about the videos or the federal funding.
Dr. Ben Carson’s tall tales about abortion and black women
As a biracial black woman who has had an abortion, I find any implication that health clinics in black neighborhoods exist in order to push abortions on unwitting black women wildly offensive. To use factually incorrect rhetoric to render our healthcare needs and experiences irrelevant is an affront to our dignity.
Powerless in the Face of White Supremacy and a Gun
The gun-toting man had a wide-shouldered build and was probably shorter than me once he took off his combat boots. Looking back, I probably could have taken him on in a fair fight. Lord knows, I’ve fought men bigger than him before.
It’s Not Helpful to Tell Indiana Residents to ‘Just Move to a Blue State’
The brouhaha over Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act has turned the spotlight on two different kinds of red-state hate: first, the discriminatory policymaking that is an obvious specialty of red states, and, second, progressives’ tendency to show disdain for more conservative states. Sometimes, I wonder which is worse.
Percy Sutton’s 1966 Abortion Rights Bill: Groundbreaking, But Often Unremembered
By the time of his death in 2009, New York’s Percy Sutton had long earned his reputation as a pioneer and power broker.
Fighting for ‘Love and Justice’ in North Carolina: Why We Still Protest When It Seems Like We’re Losing
The march represented just one of the many ways North Carolina residents have been organizing, as part of the Moral Mondays movement, to show state lawmakers we haven’t been feeling the love.
Family Leave Laws Need to Include Teen Student Parents
Pregnant and parenting students face significant barriers that often are overlooked or discounted by schoolteachers and other people in their lives.
Roe Under Attack: Why Telling Abortion Stories is Necessary
As we honor yet another Roe v. Wade anniversary, the case that legalized the right to an abortion in the United States, the country will discuss the state of access to safe abortion care and argue over the morality of the procedure.
Let’s Use Our Abortion Stories to Push Policy Reforms in 2015
When Brittany Mostiller shared her abortion story in November as part of a 1 in 3 Campaign abortion speak-out, she talked about how the economic challenges she was facing informed her decision to have an abortion.