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May 26, 2022
Southern Abortion Activists Share Their Playbook
Supreme Court decision season is upon us, and with that, we wait for the final opinion in the Mississippi abortion ban case that could overturn Roe v. Wade. The idea of living in a post-Roe world is terrifying, the impacts will be broad and almost everyone will feel them in...
Southern Abortion Activists Share Their Playbook May 26, 2022
Southern Abortion Activists Share Their Playbook
Southern Abortion Activists Share Their PlaybookSupreme Court decision season is upon us, and with that, we wait for the final opinion in the Mississippi abortion ban case that could overturn Roe v. Wade. The idea of living in a post-Roe...
May 12, 2022
The Casualties of Overturning Roe
Last week, the draft opinion for the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women鈥檚 Health Organization was leaked. Justice Alito wrote the draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Everything about what has happened is remarkable: the leak, the decision, and the reasoning. The repercussions for what...
The Casualties of Overturning Roe Last week, the draft opinion for the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women鈥檚 Health Organization was leaked. Justice Alito wrote the draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Everything about what...
May 3, 2022
Special Edition: Strategies for the End of Roe
On Monday night, the news publication Politico leaked a draft of a majority Supreme Court opinion written by Justice Alito. The draft details the highly anticipated decision in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women鈥檚 Health Organization, known to the public as the case that could overturn Roe. Supreme Court...
Special Edition: Strategies for the End of Roe May 3, 2022
Special Edition: Strategies for the End of Roe
Special Edition: Strategies for the End of RoeOn Monday night, the news publication Politico leaked a draft of a majority Supreme Court opinion written by Justice Alito. The draft details the highly anticipated decision in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women鈥檚...
January 20, 2022
Will This Be Roe鈥檚 Last Anniversary?
January 22nd, marks the 49th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court case granting the right to an abortion 鈥渨ithout excessive government restriction.鈥� Year after year, Roe has weathered legal attacks, but this year, due to the conservative majority on the bench, the threat to Roe v. Wade...
Will This Be Roe鈥檚 Last Anniversary? January 22nd, marks the 49th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court case granting the right to an abortion 鈥渨ithout excessive government restriction.鈥� Year after year, Roe has weathered legal attacks, but this...
December 2, 2021
Supreme Court Hears Mississippi Abortion Case That Could Overturn Roe
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a Mississippi abortion case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization that challenges a nearly 49-year-old precedent protecting a pregnant person's right to an abortion established in the landmark case Roe v. Wade. The law in question is a Mississippi law that...
Supreme Court Hears Mississippi Abortion Case That Could Overturn Roe December 2, 2021
Supreme Court Hears Mississippi Abortion Case That Could Overturn Roe
Supreme Court Hears Mississippi Abortion Case That Could Overturn RoeOn Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a Mississippi abortion case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization that challenges a nearly 49-year-old precedent protecting a pregnant person's right to an abortion established in...
November 2, 2021
Special Edition: Texas Abortion Ban at the Supreme Court
On Monday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases challenging Texas鈥� ban on abortion after six weeks of pregnancy known as SB 8 -- one case brought by the 老澳门开奖结果 and our partner organizations on behalf of abortion providers, Whole Women鈥檚 Health v. Jackson, and a separate case...
Special Edition: Texas Abortion Ban at the Supreme Court November 2, 2021
Special Edition: Texas Abortion Ban at the Supreme Court
Special Edition: Texas Abortion Ban at the Supreme CourtOn Monday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases challenging Texas鈥� ban on abortion after six weeks of pregnancy known as SB 8 -- one case brought by the 老澳门开奖结果 and our partner...
October 7, 2021
This Fall's Fight Against Forced Pregnancy
2021 is shaping up to be one of the most devastating years for abortion access in decades. State legislatures have enacted a blitz of new anti-abortion legislation. As of September 1st, when Texas鈥檚 six-week abortion ban went into effect, abortion has become functionally illegal in the state. The law, which...
This Fall's Fight Against Forced Pregnancy October 7, 2021
This Fall's Fight Against Forced Pregnancy
This Fall's Fight Against Forced Pregnancy2021 is shaping up to be one of the most devastating years for abortion access in decades. State legislatures have enacted a blitz of new anti-abortion legislation. As of September 1st, when Texas鈥檚 six-week abortion...
July 29, 2021
The Texas Legislature's Culture War
On July 12th, Texas House Democrats boarded two planes headed for Washington DC in a last-ditch effort to deny Republicans the quorum they would need to pass restrictive voting measures during a special legislative session.
The Texas Legislature's Culture War On July 12th, Texas House Democrats boarded two planes headed for Washington DC in a last-ditch effort to deny Republicans the quorum they would need to pass restrictive voting measures during a special legislative session.
July 8, 2020
How Reproductive Justice Is Part of an Anti-Racist Agenda
The calls of activists have forced a national reckoning with the legacy of white supremacy in our country. That reckoning has led us to an examination of systems that exert control over Black lives, from policing to reproductive health care. There is a long history of the ways that reproductive...
How Reproductive Justice Is Part of an Anti-Racist Agenda July 8, 2020
How Reproductive Justice Is Part of an Anti-Racist Agenda
How Reproductive Justice Is Part of an Anti-Racist AgendaThe calls of activists have forced a national reckoning with the legacy of white supremacy in our country. That reckoning has led us to an examination of systems that exert control over Black lives, from...
October 17, 2019
Abortion Rights: A Tale of Two States
While abortion restrictions have left six states with only a single clinic standing, other states are finding ways to expand access. We speak with Heather Gatnarek, a staff attorney at the 老澳门开奖结果 of Kentucky, who is helping fend off sustained attacks on what remains of reproductive care in that state....
Abortion Rights: A Tale of Two States While abortion restrictions have left six states with only a single clinic standing, other states are finding ways to expand access. We speak with Heather Gatnarek, a staff attorney at the 老澳门开奖结果 of Kentucky, who...