Kansas voters resoundingly protect their access to abortion
“Kansans bluntly rejected anti-abortion politicians’ attempts at creating a reproductive police state,” said Kimberly Inez McGuire, executive director of Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity. ”Today’s vote was a powerful rebuke and a promise of the mounting resistance.”
Kansas Will Soon Be The First State To Vote On Abortion Rights Post-Roe
“A lot of people really overlook Kansas, but I think most Kansans are really on the side of progressive history,” said Nigel Morton, an abortion rights organizer at URGE: Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity.
If Roe falls, what can Biden do on abortion access? Advocacy groups get creative
“We are all thinking creatively about what administrative solutions might exist,” including increasing the availability of abortion pills, said Kimberly Inez McGuire, executive director of Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity who met with the White House in one of its “listening sessions.” “But in this specific moment, what I’m looking for from this administration is leadership,” she said.
Abortion Rights At Risk, According to Politico (Audio)
Terry Haines, founder of Pangaea Policy, and Kimberly Inez McGuire, executive director of the advocacy group Unite for Reproductive and Gender Equality, talk about the future of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision protecting the constitutional right to abortion with Bloomberg’s Nathan Hager
What’s Happening With Roe v. Wade and What You Can Do
But the countdown to Roe being overturned is on. “We have every reason to believe it will move through and we will see the dismantling of Roe v. Wade,” Kimberly Inez McGuire, executive director of URGE: Unite for Reproductive and Gender Equity, tells Glamour.
Thousands demonstrate at Supreme Court as justices consider historic abortion case
Kimberly McGuire, 36, executive director of Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity, said she came to the court on behalf of young women and people of color living in the Midwest and the South who were unable to come and speak for their own constitutional right. “There are people in every single state who are poised to fight back if this court decides the wrong way, who will be on the steps of their state legislatures, who will be speaking out and fighting to get this right back,” McGuire told ABC News.
Ohio Lawmakers Have Introduced An Abortion Ban That Goes Even Further Than The Texas Law
“Being a woman of childbearing age, my gut reaction was ‘What would I do if I needed an abortion?’” Webb said, adding that she probably wouldn’t know what resources are available to her without social media accounts like @whoohio and @urge_org. “A lot of people think abortion is not accessible in Ohio right now,” Close said, adding that URGE has gained hundreds of Instagram followers since SB 8 went into effect, showing the growing number of people seeking correct information about their reproductive rights.
Reproductive Rights Groups Target Kyrsten Sinema In New Anti-Filibuster Ad Buy
Sinema has a strong record on abortion rights, with a 100% rating from NARAL. But the senator has repeatedly said she will not back abolishing the filibuster, and many reproductive rights groups are now targeting her for not going far enough. ″[Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell] only needed 51 votes to pack the Supreme Court with three ultra-conservative justices ― it’s clear that we should only need 51 votes to protect our right to abortion access and make choices for our bodies,” Desireé Luckey, director of policy, and Monica Edwards, federal policy manager, at URGE: Unite for Reproductive and Gender Equity, a member of the coalition, said in a joint statement to HuffPost. “Senate Democrats, who say they support reproductive rights but remain silent on or against the filibuster, are supporting reproductive… Read more »
Senate Bill 8 Could Pave the Way for More State Abortion Bans
The bill varies from other abortion bills that red states regularly pass due to an unusual provision that empowers private citizens, rather than state officials, to enforce this ban. As Desireé Luckey, director of policy at Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity, explained, “The law deputizes private citizens. The only people who are authorized to bring causes of action in civil courts are private individuals, not state officials.”
Ohio pro-choice activists are gearing up for a fight against a restrictive anti-abortion bill
“Young people under the age of 18 have to obtain parental consent or go through a cumbersome and traumatizing process of getting a judicial bypass from the state when they decide to end a pregnancy,” explained Jordyn Close, an Ohio state coordinator with Unite for Reproductive and Gender Equity (URGE), a queer, youth-led reproductive justice organization focused in the South and Midwest. Close also explained that during the most recent budget cycle, the Ohio legislature siphoned limited state resources to fund anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers.
