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Author: Marcela Howell

Marcela Howell is the founder and president of In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda and the former senior policy and communications consultant for Communications Consortium Media Center and vice president of policy, communications and marketing at Advocates for Youth. She has a master's in literature from Saint Louis University and a J.D. from Pepperdine School of Law. You can follow Marcela on Twitter at @BlackWomensRJ.
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Living With Dignity: Louisiana Black Women Demand Resources

Deon Haywood and Marcela Howell

Unrelenting storms are ravaging the world, including Louisiana. The attack on our reproductive rights is another storm threatening Black women in Louisiana and across the country.

Black women are being denied the resources, and the right to live and raise our families with dignity—and without state interference.

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Overturning Roe Will Threaten the Lives of Those Who Depend on Abortion Care the Most: People of Color

Sung Yeon Choimorrow, Marcela Howell and Lupe M. Rodríguez
Overturning Roe Will Threaten the Lives of Those Who Depend on Abortion Care the Most: People of Color

Overruling Roe v. Wade would be particularly devastating for those who comprise over 60 percent of abortion recipients: people of color.  

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Black Women to Democrats: Defend Our Rights!

Marcela Howell
Black Women to Democrats: Defend Our Rights!

“Democrats who supported the Hyde Amendment and have repeatedly traded Black women’s rights for political expediency need to listen to us now.”

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Black Women Demand Action on Black Maternal Health Crisis

Marcela Howell
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While the coronavirus may not discriminate, the pandemic and resulting public health crisis have both spotlighted and compounded the racial disparities created by our inequitable, discriminatory and often exclusionary health care system.

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Trump’s Medicaid Overhaul Will Hurt Black Women

Marcela Howell

Today, the Trump administration announced an overhaul of the Medicaid program that could deny or limit benefits and may result in reducing enrollment in the program, particularly in states hostile to the Affordable Care Act that want to limit expenses.

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Trump’s Administration is Attacking Access to Abortion Care in California

Marcela Howell and Jan Robinson Flint

The Department of Health and Human Services last week threatened to withhold federal funding from California if the state does not remove its requirement that private health insurance plans include abortion coverage.

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How Attacks on the Affordable Care Act Hurt Black Women

Marcela Howell

The consistent chipping away at the law by conservative lawmakers and judges means those families could mean a return to millions of women losing the ability to properly care for the health of their families.

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The Supreme Court Just Let Kentucky’s Anti-Abortion Law Stand

Marcela Howell

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a challenge to a Kentucky law that forces doctors to describe ultrasound images and play fetal heartbeat sounds to patients seeking abortion.

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How Crisis Pregnancy Centers Endanger the Health and Rights of Women of Color

Marcela Howell

While state legislatures across the country are constantly passing medically-unnecessary, politically-motivated laws to try to force reproductive health centers to close, crisis pregnancy centers are largely unregulated. It’s time to require fake clinics to abide by real standards and policies that will protect women and pregnant people.

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Rest in Power: Fighting on for Elijah Cummings’ American Dream

Marcela Howell

There is no better way to honor the memory of Rep. Elijah Cummings than to keep his dream alive.

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