In honor of Disability Pride Month – July – and in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, it’s important to acknowledge and appreciate the ways that abortion access and safe reproductive healthcare is fundamentally a disability rights issue. When we discuss disabled people and abortion access, the most typical context is Read more …
In 2020, Aaron Coleman challenged seven-term incumbent Stan Frownfelter for his seat in the Kansas State House. Coleman was a 20-year-old dishwasher and community college freshman who supported universal healthcare, defunding the police, and legalizing marijuana. He also told a 13-year-old girl (when he was also 13) that he would share a nude photo he Read more …
June 27, 2022 “Right now, we are at a point where our nation will never be redeemed from this violence until our love of our children is greater than our love of guns and power and money,” Sen. Cory Booker Tulsa, Uvalde, Buffalo, El Paso, Parkland, Las Vegas, Orlando, Sandy Hook—the list goes on and Read more …
WASHINGTON, D.C. — We’ve been ready for this. We knew that with the new conservative majority on the Supreme Court, abortion rights were hanging by a thread. Today, that thread—that lifeline—has been cut. The Supreme Court’s ruling endangers women and pregnant persons with low-incomes, women and pregnant persons of color, women and pregnant persons living Read more …
Roe v. Wade is fundamental to safeguarding women’s reproductive rights and protecting women’s autonomy over their lives. If Roe v. Wade is overturned by the Supreme Court, women across the nation will be deeply impacted in both explicit and covert ways. Research reveals that financial constraints are the primary reason that American women seek abortion Read more …