“No one should be forced to wait until they are on death’s door to get the care they need, fearing prosecution, nor should any doctor be forced to withhold life-saving treatments at the hands of diabolical politicians and systems that are literally killing us,” said Nourbese Flint, president of All* Above All.
“At this moment, where Roe is gone, why don’t we build the things that people need? That’s what we’re trying to advocate for: Let’s rebuild not for 1973, but for 2024,” Flint said.
Men “look to other men” as ambassadors when it comes to engaging on the issue, according to Flint. For her, getting men of color into the conversation is part of a longer-term strategy to make the abortion rights movement more representative of those impacted.
“Harris has already set the stage,” Nourbese Flint, the president of the national abortion-rights advocacy group All* Above All, told me. With Roe gone, restoring abortion protections would require making new rules, or eliminating old restrictions, and Kamala Harris has signaled she’d do just that by talking about “what we want in the future, not what we had in the past,” Flint said. Practically, repealing Hyde would immediately change abortion’s availability for millions of Americans. Politically, it could be one of the most viable ways for Harris to fulfill any campaign promises to protect abortion access.
Bakari is joined by Nourbese Flint, who is an advocate for Black women’s reproductive rights. Nourbese discusses her career work in providing racial justice as well. Nourbese is president of All* Above All and All* Above All Action Fund, leading All* Above All’s work to achieve abortion justice and build the political power of voters of color.
“There are some disagreements that I see in the anti-abortion space, but what I know is that they have been very clear about their wanting to end abortion access … their disagreement is how they get there,” said Nourbese Flint, president of abortion rights group All Above All.
“Let’s be clear — today’s decision is not a win by any stretch of the imagination,” said Nourbese Flint, president of the abortion rights advocacy group All* Above All. “Two years since this same court struck down Roe v. Wade, we are no longer settling for crumbs as a pathway to liberation.”
“Let’s be clear—today’s decision is not a win by any stretch of the imagination,” said Nourbese Flint, the president of the reproductive rights organization All* Above All. “This case had no business making it to the highest court of the land and should’ve been struck down to begin with. Any attempt to restrict medication abortion care falls hardest on those already marginalized by our health care system, who need the privacy and convenience that medication abortion offers—and that’s exactly what anti-abortion politicians and judges are after.”
Nourbese Flint, president of abortion advocacy group All* Above All, shares the concerns. “Let’s be clear – today’s decision is not a win by any stretch of the imagination,” Flint said. “While the Supreme Court did the bare minimum today, we know anti-abortion extremists aren’t stopping any time soon.”
“While they were unsuccessful today, this case was borne out of a plan by anti-abortion, anti-democratic forces to weaponize the courts and to seize power from the people by any means necessary,” said a statement from Nourbese Flint, the president of the pro-abortion group All* Above All.
Nourbese Flint, president of the reproductive justice group All* Above All, told Jezebel that Roe “is the floor, not the ceiling” when it comes to the presidential administration’s obligations to protect and expand reproductive rights. “We know there’s been an onslaught, there always has been, of disinformation about abortion,” Flint said.