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Posts Categorized: Abortion Rights/Reproductive Issues
Abortion Care in Missouri is Protected For Now
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Yesterday, Judge Michael F. Stelzer of the Missouri Circuit Court in St. Louis issued a preliminary injunction allowing the only remaining clinic providing abortion care in the state to continue operating through June 21st. NOW celebrates this victory for abortion rights, which, at least temporarily, prevents Missouri from becoming the first state… Read more »
Head of NOW rallies abortion-rights supporters in Rhode Island
“The Trump administration has given a blank check to the religious right to enact a fundamentalist vision of government that is straight out of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale.”
Joe Biden Must Renounce His Support for the Hyde Amendment
Joe Biden must renounce his past support for the Hyde Amendment and put forward policies to correct the damage it has done.
Several States Passing Strict Abortion Restrictions
Several states are enacting harsh new restrictions on a woman’s right to choose. Toni Van Pelt, president of the National Organization for Women (NOW) joins RFL to discuss us how bad it’s getting.
NOW Demands Access to Abortion Care For Women in Missouri
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The draconian abortion ban signed into law by Missouri Gov. Mike Parson would criminalize abortions performed during or after the eighth week of pregnancy, with no exceptions for rape or incest. As we’ve seen in other states where anti-abortion junk science has prevailed over constitutional protections and reproductive rights, Missouri’s ban will… Read more »
Advocate says Indiana abortion law heightens importance of getting more women elected to state legislatures
“When we have more women in office, more women making these decisions, we won’t see these kinds of horrific laws.”
Abortion Right Advocates Say Nationwide Protests Were Only The Beginning
“Lawmakers need to listen to all of those grass-roots activists out in the streets yesterday, because they will most certainly be voting come November,” Toni Van Pelt, president of the National Organization for Women, told Newsweek. “The fact is, the majority of voters support access to safe, legal and affordable abortion care.”
America is waging a war against women with its anti-abortion bills and it’s not pro-life or religious, it’s political
Lawmakers should not be punishing women for exercising their basic reproductive freedoms, and those who do must be voted out of office,” National Organization for Women President Toni Van Pelt
The Senate’s Vote To Confirm Wendy Vitter Is A Vote Against Women
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Senate took another step today to aid and abet Donald Trump’s radical anti-abortion agenda by voting to confirm Wendy Vitter to a lifetime position on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Trump doesn’t believe in the separation of powers or care about the rule of law…. Read more »
