Faced with a surge of abortion bans this year, pro-choice advocates and health care providers are working tirelessly to find ways to continue to provide care and widen the network of support for abortion rights and access.
Tammy Boyd, chief policy officer of the Black Women’s Health Imperative, is among the leaders creating coalitions to fight for abortion rights and access.
“We are seeing an increase in coalition building, especially with the health care industry joining in, as well as the business community and corporations,” said Tammy Boyd, chief policy officer of the Black Women’s Health Imperative . “We are trying to be proactive, but there are so many things coming at us. We could be on Capitol Hill talking about other urgent issues like breast cancer. Instead we are having to deal with this onslaught of extremism.
“Oregon is a beacon for reproductive health access and hailed as one of the most pro-choice states in the country, and with the huge success of the Stop the Bans rallies here, we wanted to take direct action,” said Kimberly Koops, the policy director for NARAL Pro-Choice Oregon. “The resolution was a way for Oregonians to [do that] and sends a message that bans aren’t welcome here. We are hoping to see similar resolutions in other progressive cities.
“We wanted to show which companies were complicit in funding” the bans, said Mary Alice Carter, senior advisor to Equity Forward. “Companies are realizing that for millennials and Gen Z, it's not only important that they like their product, but they have expectations of the companies to share their values. It's so much easier now to find out who is giving to what, and then people can use their power as consumers.
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