by Joel Foster | Nov 16, 2022 | Blog, Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice
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...
by Joel Foster | Jul 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
Florida’s 15 week abortion ban is an unconscionable assault on the women of Florida, especially following the overturn of Roe v. Wade that already strips millions of people of the freedom to make basic decisions that should be theirs alone. I’m a pro-life Black woman,...
by Joel Foster | Jun 28, 2022 | Blog, Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice
On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court turned back the clock fifty years by reversing a basic Constitutional freedom that for decades has enabled pregnant people to make decisions about their own futures: the right to have an abortion. For decades, two-thirds of the...
by Joel Foster | May 20, 2021 | Blog, Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice
On Monday, the Supreme Court announced that, next term, it would hear a challenge to a 2018 Mississippi abortion law, which conservative legal scholars have said provides an opportunity to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision that ensures civil rights for...
by Joel Foster | Mar 29, 2021 | Blog
The pandemic has hit North Carolina hard, including people I love. I have watched friends, family and neighbors struggle and I know I’m not the only one. More than 11,000 North Carolinians have died from COVID and that doesn’t take into account those of us...
