Author: Saatvik Ahluwalia

Saatvik Ahluwalia is a digital director at Progress Texas and Austin Asian Civic Communities Coalition. He is also a Public Voices Fellow of the OpEd Project. His work has been covered in the Boston Globe, Austin American-Statesman, Austin NPR, VISIBLE Magazine, and more.

Want to Protect Abortion? Look to Kansas

On Aug. 2, Kansas voters will decide whether or not to amend the Kansas Constitution to explicitly state that nothing in it creates a right to abortion. If passed, the amendment would allow the state legislature to pass laws banning and restricting abortion. The activists behind the amendment are attempting to overturn a 2019 Kansas Supreme Court decision that protected a woman’s access to abortion.

If anti-abortion extremists are successful in passing the constitutional amendment in Kansas, millions of Americans will be left in an abortion desert.

My Mom Chose Abortion to Change the World. And She Did.

My Mom Chose Abortion to Change the World. And She Did.

The choice that is being taken away from millions of Texans makes me think of my mom, Poonam Ahluwalia. She had an abortion and it allowed her to change the world.

My mom is just one of millions of people whose lives were better because they had an abortion. Not because she was able to reach great heights of success, but because she had control over her future—something all of us want.