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Fact sheet on medication abortion care

“The moment we are in demands that all of us—whoever we are—speak out and call for immediate action from our elected officials to enact policies that support people’s ability to access abortion care,” says Morgan Hopkins, interim executive director of campaigns and strategies at All* Above All, an abortion justice organization.

For more than a decade, cuts to reproductive healthcare funding, the closure of abortion clinics, and the cost of abortion services have severely limited abortion access in the Rio Grande Valley (RGV). “People are basically left with no real options,” says Nancy Cárdenas Peña of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice.

Abortion rights advocates have been pushing a repeal on the restriction. But they also point to two, albeit smaller, victories in the past year: President Biden’s budget omitted Hyde Amendment language. And House Democrats passed their own long-term funding package that also excluded the policy rider. “We’re clear-eyed about barriers in the Senate,” said Morgan Hopkins, interim executive director of … Continued