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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 Masters in Literature from Saint Louis University and a JD from Pepperdine School of Law. You can follow Marcela on Twitter at @BlackWomensRJ.
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Black Women to Democrats: Defend Our Rights!

Black Women to Democrats: Defend Our Rights!

Marcela Howell

“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

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

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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Will the SCOTUS Stand With LGBTQ Workers?

Marcela Howell

Today the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in three cases that will decide whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects lesbians, gay men and trans people from workplace discrimination.

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Black Women Stand in Support of Planned Parenthood’s Role in Family Planning

Marcela Howell

Trump’s focus has been on making sure that underserved communities face even greater barriers to accessing the healthcare they need. Black women and all people of color will suffer the most. At this critical time when women’s health and rights are under unprecedented attack, we stand in support of Title X and Planned Parenthood.

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