Abortion access is motivating Latinas to vote in the 2024 election: Here’s why it matters – Reckon News
“Women of color and Latinas have been particularly impacted by the fall of Roe. A 2023 report by the National Partnership for Women and Families estimated that nearly 6.5 million Latinas, or 42% of all Latinas of reproductive age in the country, live in a state that either had or was likely to ban abortion.”
When You’re Self-Employed, Determining Maternity Leave Is a Double-Edged Sword – PopSugar
“‘There isn’t a national mandate that requires an employer to provide paid family or medical leave,’ says Jocelyn Frye, president of the National Partnership for Women and Families, a nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy group that focuses on these issues. ‘The FMLA gives you something and it’s important, but it’s only one step in terms of where we need to be.'”
The Supreme Court delivered a win for abortion access, but the war is far from over – The Boston Globe
“‘The efforts to really impede the right to travel, really go to the heart of our Constitution and our democracy,’ Jocelyn Frye, president of the National Partnership for Women and Families, said at a Senate hearing Wednesday on the Freedom to Travel for Healthcare Act. ‘And, you know, even in a world where people disagree on a lot of things, our ability to go from state to state of our own accord is a fundamental principle.'”
Watch: Witness Brilliantly Shuts Down GOP Senator’s Abortion Question – The New Republic
“‘Well, Senator, first of all, don’t ask a question if you don’t want to know the answer.’ Wise words were offered on Wednesday by Joceyln Frye, president of National Partnership for Women & Families, during testimony to a congressional subcommittee on the freedom to travel for abortion care.”
‘Disrespectful to women’: Women and families advocate smacks down GOP fearmongering on abortion – The ReidOut with Joy Reid on MSNBC
Jocelyn Frye: “… I think the reason they do it is because they’re trying to stigmatize people who are trying to seek abortions. So they frame the conversation in the most extreme way possible, in ways that we know don’t really happen. So they can look reasonable when they push back on abortion. It simply doesn’t happen that way and it was important to say that, because it really paints a picture that is disrespectful to women and anybody who’s seeking an abortion.”
With the Affordable Connectivity Program gone, how will women of color and disabled people be affected? – Prism
“For disabled women, ‘it’s really critical for access to reproductive health care, information, and options, especially for folks who live in states where they have banned or are likely to ban abortions,’ said Marissa Ditkowsky, who serves as the disability economic justice counsel at the National Partnership for Women & Families (NPWF).”
The Equal Pay Act passed over 60 years ago. So, why do women still make less than men? – USA Today
“For every dollar men earn today, women across the board earn 78 cents, according to US Census Bureau data analysis by the National Partnership for Women & Families.”
“…On average, women employed in the United States lose a combined total of more than $1.6 trillion every year due to the wage gap,” according to a report from the National Partnership for Women and Families. Families, businesses and the economy suffer as a result.”
The abortion crisis is crushing Black women. The numbers don’t lie. – Reckon News
“About 57% of all Black women ages 15-49 live in states with abortion bans, and 55% live in states with both abortion bans and above average maternal mortality, according to analysis released by National Partnership for Women & Families (NPWF) and In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda last week. Further escalating the effects of not having legal access to abortion where they live, the fact that 2.7 million Black women living in these states are economically insecure, and more likely to lack the funds necessary to travel to access abortion in another state.”
If you thought rent was bad, child care now costs more than housing in all 50 states – Fortune
“The problems that contribute to expensive care are multifold and can be understood by taking a close look at how the market is funded, according to Jocelyn Frye, the president of the National Partnership for Women & Families, a nonprofit that works to improve lives.
‘It’s a perfect storm in terms of a number of things coming together,’ Frye told Fortune. ‘Families are struggling across the country, the costs are going up, the number of child-care workers has not yet rebounded fully from pre-pandemic numbers, the costs of operating child-care facilities are escalating and we don’t pay child-care workers themselves enough.'”
Almost 7M Black women of reproductive age have little, no abortion access: Research – The Hill
“The analysis from National Partnership for Women & Families and In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda found that nearly 7 million Black women ages 15-49 live in the 26 states that have banned or are likely to ban abortion.
The number of states to ban or limit abortion care has increased since the 2022 Supreme Court case that overturned Roe v. Wade, which guaranteed the right to abortion.”
