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What Repealing the Hyde Amendment Would Mean for Abortion Activists
Kelsey Ryland notes it is Black and other women of color like the abortion fund directors who are moving the pro-choice movement forward. Ryland is the director of federal strategies for All* Above All. The…
Biden starts rolling back Trump anti-abortion rules
Biden was for decades was one of the Democratic party’s staunchest anti-abortion voices, but as a candidate pledged to advance abortion rights. Advocates who met with his transition team, including Silvia Henriquez, the co-president of the…
Under Biden, pro-choice advocates shift focus to undoing Trump and targeting ‘draconian’ state restrictions
The law prohibits Medicaid and other federal programs from providing funds for abortion care. In practice, the amendment disproportionately targets low-income women, women of color, and LGBTQ people, said Kelsey Ryland, co-director of the coverage…
Opinion: How the Biden administration should stand up for abortion rights
Herminia Palacio, MD, is president and chief executive of the Guttmacher Institute. Daniel Grossman, MD, is the director of Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) at UC San Francisco. As physicians and researchers with…
Abortion Advocates’ Biggest Priorities For The Next 4 Years
“We’ve long known that the promise of Roe v. Wade was never real for working families in America,” Kelsey Ryland, co-director of All* Above All, a reproductive justice policy and strategy organization, tells Bustle. That’s why, she adds, now’s…
Biden readies sweeping rollback of Trump-era abortion crackdown
President-elect Joe Biden is poised to roll back several of the Trump administration’s most restrictive sexual and reproductive health policies, including limits on abortion. Reproductive rights advocates expect Biden to quickly overturn Trump-era rules, like…
