Abortion Rights and Access
In June of 2022, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision that for nearly 50 years guaranteed a Constitutional right to make personal healthcare decisions, including the choice to have an abortion. In over a dozen states, extremist anti-abortion lawmakers have already implemented abortion bans that deny access and treat people who seek abortion and doctors that provide them as criminals under the law, despite the fact that two thirds of Americans support access to safe, legal abortion. In the United States, people should have the freedom to decide for themselves if and when to start a family and access to the healthcare they need to do it safely and affordably.
Washington Post: Get politics out of health care
Virginia Mercury: Expanding abortion access would benefit all Virginians
Charleston Gazette-Mail: Gary Zuckett: Abortion bans affects health care for all of us (Opinion)
This Is Reno: Impact of Roe reversal continues to reverberate (opinion)
NC Newsline: How and why did my choices become a political statement?
HCANEF Partner Spotlight: Organizing For Abortion Access Through Art in Rhode Island
The Womxn Project, is a grassroots art and activism organization that was founded around a kitchen table in 2017 to fight for abortion rights and reproductive health care. It’s now a statewide grassroots organization dedicated to building a strong movement that...
Let’s Celebrate Black History Month and Keep Working Towards Equity
February is Black History Month and though progress on achieving meaningful racial equity is slow, there is still a lot to celebrate even as we chart a course toward more improvements. In the last year, we’ve seen an increasing number of Black leaders in both parties...
On Roe v. Wade’s 50th Anniversary, Millions of Patients are Unable To Access Abortion
2023 marks the first year in half a century that women in the United States do not have the Constitutional right to access abortion. The U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark January 22, 1973 ruling on Roe v. Wade made abortion legal under the Fourteenth Amendment as a...
HCANEF Partner Spotlight: Virginia Organizing Fighting for Reproductive Health, Rights & Justice in Wake of SCOTUS Repeal of Abortion Rights
Since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs’ decision, Virginia Organizing, an HCANEF partner in Virginia, has been bringing people together to protect abortion access in the Commonwealth. Immediately following the June 24th decision, the State Governing Board of Virginia...
Voters Pick Abortion Rights Over Extremist Bans in Midterm Elections
The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in the Dobbs decision, after 50 years of guaranteed abortion rights and access, was a wake-up call to many Americans. On the eve of the 2022 mid-term elections, abortion was illegal in a quarter of the country. The...