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How Kierra Johnson Is Ensuring Young Women Have A Say In What Happens To Their Bodies

Jul 06, 2016 / Press Clip
Johnson and URGE will continue on with the fight, to ensure that women and young people have agency and power, to move forward other policies … Read More

'These laws will fall': Abortion rights regain lost ground with Supreme Court

Jul 02, 2016 / Press Clip
On Monday morning Kierra Johnson stood before the Supreme Court. The summer sun reflected off the white marble steps. She’d already begun to sweat, and … Read More

Why the Supreme Court Abortion Clinic Ruling Was a Win for Black Women

Jun 27, 2016 / Press Clip
As a Black woman who’s been working for reproductive justice for 17 years, this felt like a different kind of victory party, one that equally … Read More

What Abortion Has to Do with the Minimum Wage

May 02, 2016 / Press Clip
“When we think about Medicaid, the only battle isn’t around abortion access,” said URGE’s Johnson. While Medicaid doesn’t cover abortion, it also doesn’t always cover … Read More

It's Time to Talk about How Economic Security Affects Reproductive Health Access

Apr 17, 2016 / Press Clip
All too often, we talk about the political aspects of the right to abortion, but we don’t talk enough about the links between access to … Read More

Why Students Are Declaring They Are #AbortionPositive

Apr 08, 2016 / Press Clip
“While anti-abortion activists use gruesome and insensitive imagery to reach college students, we believe an empowering, honest, abortion-positive approach is more motivating to young people,” … Read More

Kansas pro-choice advocates seek repeal of telemedicine abortion ban

Mar 10, 2016 / Press Clip
Kansas has been eroding reproductive health care access for several years, even leading the nation in the number of abortion restrictions passed,” said Erendira Jimenez, … Read More

I Am a Transman and Last Week I Spoke Out for Abortion Rights in Front of the Supreme Court. Here's Why.

Mar 09, 2016 / Press Clip
Defending abortion rights and preventing manipulative restrictions on abortion access is something that will benefit everyone, including those in the trans and queer communities. The … Read More

5 Best Feminist Quotes You Missed From This Week, SCOTUS to the Silver Screen

Mar 05, 2016 / Press Clip
Fortunately, Kierra Johnson of URGE: Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity, was on hand at Wednesday’s rally outside the Supreme Court to give us these … Read More

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