by admin | Mar 20, 2023 | Blog, Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice
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...
by admin | Feb 1, 2023 | Blog, Health Care for All, Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice
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...
by admin | Jan 20, 2023 | Blog, Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice
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...
by admin | Dec 8, 2022 | Blog, Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice
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...
by admin | 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 admin | 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...