Over the years, the team, made up of 20 to 30 women, in Chicago, at any given time, ended up facilitating at least 11,000 abortions before Roe v. Wade was passed in 1973 and made abortion a constitutional right. We're now facing an assault on women.
"We must build a future that protects the right of all women to have children, the right of all women to not have children, and the right to bring children up in a safe and healthy environment."
State legislatures are escalating their assault on women's right to choose — and on the women who attempt to exercise it.
We 1970s feminists may have believed some odd things. But at least we didn’t think our vulvas were ugly. We had Betty Dodson’s drawings to show us that, in fact, our genitals are as beautiful and varied as our faces.
Reproductive rights groups decry Trump's latest announcement, saying it further restricts women's rights.
This new move by the administration jeopardizes the lives and health of millions of low-income women across the US. This also turns the clock back 30 years to oppressive Reagan-era restrictions intended to make it impossible for reproductive health groups to survive.
Inseparable from the struggle for reproductive justice and individual bodily autonomy is Washington DC's fight for the rights held by other citizens of this country: to hold our elected officials accountable for delivering the resources we need to foster safe and healthy communities.
In the fall of 2017, radical anti-abortion activists debuted the Red Rose Rescues, bent on disrupting what they see as a stale political movement. Their goal is to be able to stop individual abortions without violating federal law. And so far, they are getting away with it.
Planned Parenthood under Richards took deliberate steps to improve its engagement with Black women and other women of color as an organization. But there is still work to be done: The next leader must be someone with the skills of managing a large multi-state organization, but also needs to be a leader who understands white supremacy and the role race plays in reproductive care
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