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How Roe’s Non-Anniversary Looms Large Over the 2024 Election
Jan 22, 2024
/ Margaret B
/ Our Folks Blog
Today has become known as the second Roe ‘nonanniversary’, commemorating the 2022 overturning of the landmark Supreme Court decision, Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion on the federal level. However, in 2019, three years before Roe was even overturned, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled that the right to an abortion was to be enshrined in …
Statement from URGE on SCOTUS’ Decision to Take Up Abortion Pill Case
Dec 13, 2023
/ Press Release
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States announced that it will decide on a challenge to the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of Mifepristone this spring, following their previous decision earlier this year that returned the decision back to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Mifepristone is a safe and accessible abortion option that …
Statement from URGE on Ohio’s Historic Abortion Win
Nov 08, 2023
/ Press Release
The citizen-led “The Right to Protect Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety Amendment” passed, protecting abortion rights in the state. (Columbus, Ohio) – Today, voters throughout Ohio decisively voted in favor of amending the state’s constitution to protect access to abortion. Ohioans United for Reproductive Freedom, the coalition leading this effort, organized thousands …