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Alabama Anti-Choicers Want to Regulate Abortion Clinics Like Sex Predators
If you ever want a full eyeball of the nosiness and sexualized hysteria that characterizes anti-choice attitudes about abortion, look no further than what’s going on right now in Huntsville, Alabama....
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Threats Against Abortion Providers Have Doubled Since 2010, Report Finds
Abortion clinics nationwide face significant threats of harassment, intimidation, and violence, according to a new report showing that threats of violence against abortion providers have doubled since...
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Anti-Choice Protesters ‘Terrorize’ Mississippi Community
Anti-choice activists staged a protest Sunday that included large graphic images outside of Jackson, Mississippi, churches during Palm Sunday services. Jackson, home to the state’s last abortion...
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‘Living in the Crosshairs’ Puts Human Face on Grim Clinic Violence Statistics
Last month, Jackson Women’s Health Organization in Mississippi—also known as “Pink House,” the last abortion clinic in the state—was vandalized overnight in an attempt to cut the building’s power...
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Anti-Choice Lawmaker Cites Anti-Choice Protests as Reason to Target Alabama’s...
An Alabama lawmaker filed legislation Tuesday targeting the only clinic in the state providing abortion services, charging that children should be protected from anti-choice protests. Rep. Ed Henry...
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An Anti-Choice Group’s Extreme Tactics Backfire in Jackson, Mississippi
In February 2013, several other people and I were escorting patients to the Jackson Women’s Health Organization (JWHO), the last abortion clinic in Mississippi. Amid the protesters from Operation...
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Anti-Choice Groups Try ‘Texas Playbook’ in Attempt to Block Health-Care...
California may be traditionally progressive with a history of protecting reproductive rights, but Imperial County has become a new front in the anti-choice movement’s effort to erode abortion access...
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Alabama GOP Passes Bill Regulating Abortion Clinics Like Sex Offenders
The Alabama house passed legislation Tuesday that would prohibit clinics offering abortion care from being located near schools, charging that children should be protected from anti-choice protests....
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Deceptive Planned Parenthood Attack Videos Spur More Anti-Choice Protests
See more of our coverage on the effects of the misleading Center for Medical Progress videos here. Thousands of anti-choice protesters gathered August 22 at Planned Parenthood clinics around the...
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How Photographer Wendi Kent Hopes to Galvanize the Quiescent ‘Pro-Choice...
This piece is published in collaboration with Echoing Ida, a Forward Together project. Photojournalist Wendi Kent avoids using the word “shoot” as she takes pictures at abortion clinics nationwide....
View ArticleI Found Fulfillment and Family as an Abortion Provider
On an afternoon walk with my best friend, we saw a group of people protesting near her workplace. When I asked her what was going on, she said, “That’s the Hope Clinic for Women.” I knew it was an...
View ArticleThe Breach: Will the Government Protect Abortion Clinic Access in the Era of...
Subscribe to The Breach in Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or Soundcloud. Rewire Vice President of Law and the Courts Jessica Mason Pieklo joins Lindsay Beyerstein for a special episode on...
View ArticleWhat Else Happened? Charter School Segregation and Clinic Defenders on High...
Subscribe in Apple Podcasts Subscribe in Google Play Subscribe in Stitcher Follow us on Soundcloud This week on What Else Happened, hosts and Rewire managing editors Kat Jercich and Regina Mahone...
View ArticleAs Anti-Choice Violence Erupted in US, Abortion Clinic Escort Maintained...
For more of our coverage on the New York clinic picketers trial, click here. A couple walked toward Choices Women’s Medical Center in Queens, New York, when they were approached by an anti-choice...
View ArticleFederal Judge Sides With New York Anti-Choice Protesters, Dismissing Clinic...
A federal district court judge last week denied a preliminary injunction to prevent anti-choice protesters from demonstrating outside a clinic in Queens, New York, saying they did not “harass, annoy,...
View ArticleAgreeing to Disagree: Another Take on What the Abortion Rights Movement...
Earlier this week, Michelle Farber and Dayna Long published a Rewire.News piece about the history and future of abortion activism as they see it. The article, “The Abortion Rights Movement Can’t Afford...
View Article‘A Coordinated Backlash’: Anti-Choice Protests Explode as State Lawmakers...
Giving testimony at the Rhode Island state house in support of abortion rights protections was “unnerving and unsettling” for Jamie Hagen, a post-doctoral fellow in Providence. A volunteer abortion...
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I Saw an Anti-Abortion Protester Cough and Joke About COVID-19 (Updated)
UPDATE, March 30, 2020, 10:10 a.m.: Four people from the anti-choice group Love Life, including founder Justin Reeder, were arrested Saturday in Greensboro, North Carolina, for protesting outside an...
View ArticleThe Right’s Desperate Attempts to Hijack ‘My Body, My Choice’
A viral image swept across Twitter this weekend depicting a young person in Texas protesting the state’s stay-at-home order, which is helping to save lives during the COVID-19 pandemic. The woman held...
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