The Fight to Secure U.S. Abortion Rights Is Global
Overturning Roe v. Wade will unleash devastating rollbacks on abortion across the United States, while also impacting U.S. foreign policy. Already, the Helms Amendment, Siljander Amendment, global gag rule and other restrictions form a collective—and deadly—U.S. foreign policy package that has had disastrous impacts on global health, including an increase in maternal mortality, unsafe abortions and HIV infections, as well as a decline in the overall quality of healthcare.
While the forthcoming decision, and its catastrophic fallout, is not likely to have an immediate global impact, it will undercut efforts to remove these restrictions and embolden the anti-abortion lobby to further instrumentalize U.S. foreign policy to promote its ideology.
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Beyond Roe: The Fight for Our Future (with Melissa Murray, Lourdes Rivera and Monica Raye Simpson)
Released on Beyond Roe: The Fight for Our Future, we’re proud to share a special discussion, recorded before a live studio audience at NPR’s WNYC Studios in New York City: an in-depth exploration on why abortion is essential to the health of our democracy and society—and why democracy is essential to abortion. Experts dug deep on questions like: How should we consider parallel affronts to participation and representation—the wave of state voting restrictions and gerrymandering? Can we look to state courts to provide new avenues in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s ruling on Roe? What are the legal and societal impacts of criminalizing pregnancy and abortion on vulnerable communities?
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The Patriarchs’ War on Women
Assaults on women’s and LGBTQ+ rights—and attempts to put women “in their place”—constitute a backlash against feminist progress expanding women’s full inclusion in public life.
As women’s participation becomes more prominent in domestic and international politics, here’s why political sexism and gender policing are also becoming more virulent—and what to do about it.
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