Tag: abortion

Joshua Prager, author of “The Family Roe,” discusses the 50-year battle over abortion rights and the strategic decisions that led us here.

The U.S. is sliding toward a grim future where abortion is criminalized with little support for families. This “new normal” is disproportionately impacting low-income people of color.

"These extremist politicians are willing to turn their own constituents into medical refugees."

Republican lawmakers in at least four states this week advanced bills banning or limiting abortion access.

“To be clear, an abortion ban is dangerous. It’s the first abortion ban in modern New Hampshire history.”

It’s also about access to family planning services, contraception, sex education and much else—all of which have also been under threat in recent years.

“Despite the protections that the legal framework like Roe provides, it has never been enough,” said one doctor. “We continue to work toward reproductive justice.”

Texas has opened a multidimensional Pandora’s box that threatens marginalized communities across the country.

Not banning abortion in the first place would reduce pregnancy-related deaths the most.

Texas' latest abortion ban deputizes ordinary citizens to hunt down and sue anyone who helps a woman get an abortion after 6 weeks (e.g. clinic staff, taxi drivers, someone who provided money for the procedure).