“As the leader of the Democratic Party and the leader of the country, we would like to have more vocal and full-throated support of abortion from him,” said Destiny Lopez, co-president of the abortion rights organization All* Above All. “I would, in some ways, divide up Biden and his administration because I do think that the administration as read more
“This is a decades long battle that has been waged against abortion access in this country,” said Destiny Lopez, co-president of All* Above All, a reproductive justice organization. “We have seen hundreds of attacks almost annually in state legislatures across this country and the attacks have gotten worse, culminating in what we saw in Texas … Continued
“Our opponents are throwing every piece of spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks,” Destiny Lopez, the co-president of All* Above All, told POLITICO. “Why aren’t we doing the same? At this point, we have nothing to lose. We’ve lost so much already — nearly everything.”
“In the last 10 years state legislatures have really legislated abortion out of existence in many cases” said Destiny Lopez, co-president of All Above All, a group that focuses on helping Black, Latino and low-income women already struggling to get abortion services.
One year ago today, as President Biden and Vice President Harris were being sworn in, All* Above All and our campaign partners challenged our new leaders to be bold. To enact policy change that not only shored up the legal right to abortion but ensured everyone can get the abortion care they need to thrive … Continued
“What we know now, because of the pandemic, is we don’t actually need that physical visit to the doctor,” said Destiny Lopez, co-president of the abortion rights organization All* Above All. “Telehealth exists, it’s a pretty common way of delivering health care and it’s a safe way to deliver and dispense medication abortion. You do a … Continued
Activists are frank about what that will mean: “I think we have another generation’s worth of fights that we’re going to have to undertake to restore access,” says Destiny Lopez, co-president of the reproductive justice and abortion rights group All* Above All.
Destiny Lopez, the co-president of the abortion-rights group All* Above All, said regarding Biden that she has “seen progress, particularly on the policy side, and there is hopefully more to come on the bully pulpit side.” “I want to hear more from the president beyond euphemisms, he’s going to have a couple good opportunities coming … Continued
“We have to begin to help people to understand what it is going to take to win back this issue,” said Destiny Lopez, a co-president of All* Above All, an abortion rights group. “We are in for another long fight. God help me if it’s another 50 years. At minimum, it’s another 15, 20 years.”
DeRay, Kaya, and De’Ara, cover the underreported news of the week—including the gubernatorial election in Virginia, Stacy Abrams’ efforts toward eliminating medical debt, a police chief in Georgia who is leading on police reform, and a win for fair wages for ICE detainees who work in their detention centers. DeRay interviews Destiny Lopez.