NOW Joins International Safe Abortion Day 

September 28 is International Safe Abortion Day.  This observance began in Latin America and the Caribbean in 1990 as a day of action for decriminalization of abortion.  The date was chosen to commemorate the passing of the Law of Free Birth passed by the Brazilian parliament on September 28, 1871–a legal reform intended to provide Read more …

Abortion measures on ballots in record number of states

“This shows overwhelmingly that voters believe in abortion access, and it disputes all the misinformation and disinformation that we’ve been hearing about abortion access and belief that people do not care about it,” Christian F. Nunes, the president of the National Organization for Women, which advocates for women’s rights, told NewsNation.

“People do care about abortion access,” she said. “Lawmakers writing these oppressive laws were not taking into consideration what the voters really wanted, and were writing for their own sense of power and control, not thinking or even hearing out their constituents so many of them took matters into their own hands.”

How Tim Walz Has Been a Champion for Reproductive Rights, From Abortion to IVF

It wasn’t long before reproductive rights orgs like the National Organization for Women, Reproductive Freedom for All, and Planned Parenthood released statements celebrating his selection, calling Walz “a longtime champion of sexual and reproductive health” and naming the duo “the most pro-reproductive freedom presidential ticket in US history.”