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SisterSong, a national activist organization dedicated to reproductive justice for women of color; URGE: Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity, a reproductive rights and justice non-profit organization (formerly named Choice USA) Women's Health Action and Mobilization, a defunct organization founded to protest the decision in Webster v ...
This category lists organizations which are somehow involved in the mainstream abortion-rights movements in the United States. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Virginia Society for Human Life (VSHL), a nonprofit organization advocating an end to abortion in Virginia; it is the oldest anti-abortion organization in the US. [ 52 ] [ 53 ] Family Foundation of Virginia , a lobbying organization focused originally on opposition to sex education that has expanded to opposition to abortion, same-sex marriage ...
Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity (URGE) is a national youth-led reproductive rights and justice non-profit organization in the United States based in Washington, D.C. that began as Choice USA in 1992. [1] Choice USA changed its name to URGE in July 2014. [2]
A key point in abortion rights in the United States was the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade, which struck down most state laws restricting abortion, [6] [7] thereby decriminalizing and legalizing elective abortion in a number of states. On June 24, 2022, Roe v. Wade was overruled in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.
Reproductiverights.gov, which was launched by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in 2022, was offline Tuesday morning.
Democrats, including Vice President Kamala Harris, leaned heavily into talk of reproductive freedom and women's issues while campaigning this year. After all, the party had notched several wins in ...
In 1992, six national women of color organizations came together seeking to increase their impact on the mainstream women's rights/pro-choice movement and on US policy: Asians and Pacific Islanders for Choice, National Black Women's Health Project, National Latina Health Organization, Latina Roundtable on Health and Reproductive Rights, National Coalition of 100 Black Women, and Native ...