The day after Texas’s new abortion law went into effect, the Women’s March announced its return to Washington and across the nation on October 2 to rally in support of reproductive rights.
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Katherine Clark Introduces Reproductive Rights Are Human Rights Act: “We Owe It to the Global Community”
“State Department reporting on violations of reproductive rights should not be subject to whiplash between the policies of the occupants of the White House. Congress has an important role to ensure that the U.S. is consistently and unbiasedly reporting on the rights violations that impact women around the world, without political interference.”
Katherine Clark’s Reproductive Rights Are Human Rights Act would require the State Department include reporting on contraception and abortion access, STD rates and prevention efforts, maternal health, and rates and causes of pregnancy-related injuries and death, including unsafe abortions.
Complacency Is Not An Option: Why States Must Protect Reproductive Rights Under The Biden Administration
At the Supreme Court, the Mississippi abortion case—or 18 others like it—could overturn Roe v. Wade altogether. States must be one step ahead in ensuring reproductive health access is protected.
Linking Reproductive Rights and Climate Solutions Is the Only Way Forward
As the pandemic has brought our world’s climate and health crises into sharp relief, the time is ripe to include women’s reproductive rights as part of our climate solutions toolbox.
Reproductive Rights Advocates Call for Biden to Curb Foreign Abortion Restrictions
A coalition of over 140 reproductive rights and health care advocates has called on President Biden to mitigate the harm caused by the over-implementation of US foreign aid restrictions, especially the 50-year-old Helms Amendment, that has limited women’s access to and information about abortion overseas.
A New Era for Women: The Biden Administration’s Vision on Health Care and Reproductive Rights
The Biden-Harris administration has an ambitious agenda for advancing women’s rights in areas such as health care and reproductive rights.
Stop Violating Immigrant Women’s Reproductive Rights
Human rights organizations have documented dozens of accounts of immigrants receiving inadequate medical treatment, pregnant women and newborns held in custody beyond the time limits allowed by law, and inhumane conditions for those forced to give birth in custody.
Rabbi Hara Person: Why Progressive Faith Leaders Must Defend Reproductive Rights
Ms. recently spoke with Rabbi Hara Person—chief executive of the Central Conference of American Rabbis and self-proclaimed “reader, writer, feminist and challah-baker” —about politics, women’s rights, and the role of faith-based leaders in 2020.
“We need to make sure people hear that there is no such thing as the one religious perspective or the one faith perspective on reproductive rights—we need to say loudly and clearly that there is a progressive religious voice on these issues as well as the right wing religious voice that they regularly hear. “
Fact Check: Trump Rejects UN Criticism of Using COVID-19 to Violate Reproductive Rights—Despite Evidence
The Trump administration finally responded to a statement issued by members of a United Nations panel that called out U.S. state-level anti-abortion policymakers’ manipulation of the COVID-19 crisis to restrict abortion access in a number of U.S. states.
The response letter fails to accept the specific issues documented by the UN, despite the fact that they are easily proven and backed up by a tremendous amount of evidence.
Voting Rights are Reproductive Rights: Legislators Across 19 States on 19th Amendment’s Legacy
Reproductive freedom and voting are intrinsically linked.
“As long as women’s reproductive freedom continues to be politicized, women must vote.”
“Controlling women’s bodies has been a method of subjugation for centuries, as has been hindering and preventing people from voting, a central pillar of our democracy. Notably, we cannot truly get or keep one without the other.”