USA – Reproductive rights and justice groups plan for Trump’s return

By: Sofia Resnick
January 21, 2025

In the days following President-elect Donald Trump’s win last November, a national abortion-assistance hotline was being inundated with calls. “They were confused about whether abortion was even still legal in the country, because they have heard the rhetoric around Trump’s position on abortion,” said Brittany Fonteno, the president and CEO of the National Abortion Federation.

… Many activists that spent the last year trying to fight off a subsequent Trump term are now focused on how to maintain and expand access to abortion and birth control but also maternal and prenatal care. … “Everything has changed,” Fonteno told States Newsroom. “We are heading into absolutely the most hostile landscape for abortion access in 50 years in this country, without the legal protection of Roe and with the most hostile administration to abortion access.”

Continued: https://ncnewsline.com/2025/01/21/reproductive-rights-and-justice-groups-plan-for-trumps-return/


USA – Reproductive rights and justice groups plan for Trump’s return

By: Sofia Resnick
January 18, 2025

In the days following President-elect Donald Trump’s win last November, a national abortion-assistance hotline was being inundated with calls. “They were confused about whether abortion was even still legal in the country, because they have heard the rhetoric around Trump’s position on abortion,” said Brittany Fonteno, the president and CEO of the National Abortion Federation.

The association of abortion providers runs what Fonteno says is the largest financial assistance program for people seeking abortions and is among the many groups preparing for another potentially destabilizing shift in U.S. reproductive health policy after Trump takes office Monday.

Continued: https://lailluminator.com/2025/01/18/abortion-trump-2/


“Complete Liberation”: A Black Reproductive Justice Agenda

Isaiah Thompson
November 16, 2023

“Black women, girls, and gender-expansive people are dynamic leaders in every part of this country.” In a time when reproductive rights are under threat and being actively eroded in the United States—and when

Black people simultaneously face a landscape of unequal and inequitable access to healthcare—what does an agenda centered around Black reproductive justice look like?
A new report from In Our Own Voice, the 2023 National Black Reproductive Justice Policy Agenda, seeks to answer that question.

Continued: https://nonprofitquarterly.org/liberation-black-reproductive-justice-agenda/


A year after Roe’s fall, Women’s March returns to press for abortion access

Demonstrators gathered in D.C., some marching with signs that read ‘Bans off our Bodies’

By Corinne Dorsey, Heidi Pérez-Moreno and Justin Wm. Moyer
June 24, 2023

Janisann Hay, 65, beamed with pride as she and her granddaughter, 16-year-old Sophia Paxton, made their way Saturday to the gathering spot for the 2023 Women’s March outside Union Station.

“I’m so proud of you,” Hay said to her granddaughter.

Continued: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/06/24/womens-march-dc-abortion-rights/