Abortion bans don’t just kill women—they inflict horrific, unnecessary suffering. And a new ProPublica investigation puts numbers to just a fraction of that horror. Since Texas banned abortion, cases of sepsis among women hospitalized for second-trimester pregnancy loss in the state have surged by 50%.
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We were thrilled to welcome back award-winning journalist Katie Couric, who moderated this critical conversation featuring Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer, director and producer of the film, Nazrin Choudhury, OBGYN and reproductive rights activist Dr. Austin Dennard, and Nourbese Flint, President of All*In Action Fund. The powerful discussion focused how abortion policy is creating a healthcare … Continued
Dylan Melton, 31, has been working with fellow progressives in North Carolina for almost a year to engage and turn out votes for Democrats up and down the 2024 ballot. But before he came to work in advocacy, Melton was a chaplain for hospitals around the Raleigh area. “There was one case in particular,” Melton … Continued
“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.”