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
Biden has used the word “abortion” a handful of times in writing during his presidency, including in a recent proclamation marking Women’s History Month and statements about the Texas law. Morgan Hopkins, the interim executive director of campaigns and strategies for the abortion-justice organization All* Above All, said after the speech: “We commend President Biden for alluding to the abortion care … Continued
The president’s hesitancy to discuss abortion care is disappointing to many lawmakers and advocates who support abortion rights. “We commend President Biden for alluding to the abortion care crisis we’re in, but it’s not enough,” Morgan Hopkins, interim executive director of campaigns and strategies at All* Above All, a reproductive justice organization, told HuffPost after Biden’s State of … Continued
“We commend President Biden for alluding to the abortion care crisis we’re in, but it’s not enough,” Morgan Hopkins, interim executive director of campaigns and strategies at All* Above All, a reproductive justice organization, told HuffPost after Biden’s State of the Union address. “Last year, President Biden pledged a ‘whole of government’ response to Texas’ extreme … Continued
“After reviewing decades of research showing medication abortion is safe and effective, the FDA recently took a significant step to permanently lift some of its unnecessary restrictions so that more people, especially people of color working to make ends meet, can get care,” said Destiny Lopez, co-president of All* Above All said. “This is just … Continued
“Our movement has made it politically not feasible to not support abortion access anymore,” said Morgan Hopkins, director of political strategies at the abortion rights group All Above All, pointing to Casey and Cuellar.
“The urgency of this moment really demands it from the President and from the Biden administration writ large,” says Morgan Hopkins, political strategies director at abortion rights group All* Above All. “We need creative and bold solutions that will address the realities of what people across the country are facing.”
Twelve years ago, one of us met with a small group of women of color to envision lifting the Hyde Amendment and doing so in a way that would transform our movement. This federal policy, which prevents Medicaid insurance from covering the costs of abortion care, had been spreading its ugly tentacles for decades and disproportionately harming … Continued
For decades, women of color have successfully pioneered ground-breaking, one-of-a-kind leadership and network-building models in the fight to eliminate economic, geographic and countless other barriers to abortion access for communities around the country. While access to care is on the line like never before, women of color have the tools to respond. Now, we need … Continued