“Sinsi Hernández-Cancio, vice president for health justice at the National Partnership for Women & Families, said abortion-rights supporters cannot afford to assume Latino voters do not support abortion rights, especially in majority-Republican Florida, which requires 60% voter support to pass a constitutional amendment.”
“A 2023 report by the National Partnership for Women and Families shows that Arizona is home to 585,600 Latinas of reproductive age, and nearly half of them are economically insecure — meaning they are living below 200% of the federal poverty line.”
“The premise of Severino’s claims, says Marissa Ditkowsky, the National Partnership for Women & Families’ disability economic justice counsel, is a fabrication.
‘It’s always concerning when people repeat medical myths to score political points,’ Ditkowsky says. ‘It’s even more concerning when disabled people are used as a political football without consulting or truly centering us.'”
“‘It’s hard to overstate the significance of the Loper Bright and Relentless decision’ on reproductive and gender issues and federal policy more broadly, says Shaina Goodman, director for reproductive health and rights at the National Partnership for Women and Families. ‘It has deep and far-reaching consequences that we will see play out over the coming years.'”
Today, the Supreme Court, in an unsigned opinion, dismissed for now a challenge to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act’s (EMTALA) protections for emergency abortion care in Idaho v. United States and Moyle v. United States.
“‘The specific increase in deaths attributable to congenital anomalies really makes an ironclad link between the change in the law and the terrible outcomes that they’re seeing for infants and families,’ said Nan Strauss, senior policy analyst of maternal health at the National Partnership for Women & Families, who was not involved with the research. ‘The women and families have to suffer through an excruciating later part of pregnancy, knowing that their baby is likely to die in the first weeks of life.'”
“‘There are a set of corrective measures that are really about tackling systemic biases throughout the healthcare system… It’s hard work, but it’s also essential if you really try to build something that’s workable for the future that is better than what we had before that’s really responsive to the needs of all patients, particularly those who are most vulnerable who have the least economic capacity and have access to health care,’ said Jocelyn Frye, president of the National Partnership for Women and Families.”
“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.”
“‘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.'”
Today, the Supreme Court ruled the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine lacked standing to challenge the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, one of two medications commonly used in medication abortion.
“‘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.”
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.”
NPWF President Jocelyn C. Frye testified as an expert witness in the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights’ hearing on “Crossing the Line: Abortion Bans and Interstate Travel for Care After Dobbs.”
In our new report, Democracy & Abortion Access: Restrictive Voting Laws Threaten Freedoms, we found that the states with abortion bans and other severe restrictions are among the states with the most repressive voting measures.
Today, the National Partnership for Women & Families (NPWF) and In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda released a new analysis on the threats that nearly 7 million Black women face in the 26 states that have banned or are likely to ban abortion.
“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.”
“The study, by the National Partnership for Women & Families (NPWF) and the non-profit In Our Own Voice, shows the stark impact of overturning Roe v. Wade on Black women, NBC News reported.
Jocelyn Frye, president of the NPWF, told NBC that understanding the concerns of Black women can help address barriers to care facing other demographics of women.”
“The report also found that 2.7 million of the Black women of reproductive age living in such states are already ‘economically insecure’ and that 1.4 million of them work in service jobs — which are less likely to provide resources like paid sick days, flexible scheduling and more. They include Black women with disabilities, multiracial Black women, veterans and immigrants.”
“‘Right now, it falls short in terms of what pregnant people would need,’ said Sinsi Hernández-Cancio, vice president of health justice at the National Partnership for Women and Families. ‘Given that the majority of hospitals have gotten the designation because the requirements for it are a pretty low bar, it’s not really a useful distinction even for those consumers that do have a choice,’ Hernández-Cancio said. ‘Because if the majority of the hospitals have it, and all the ones in your area do, it doesn’t make a difference.'”
How should those advancing anti-racism in healthcare talk about the work? An expert panel discusses this, and other community-submitted questions, before sharing personal stories of how they came to work in healthcare and community advocacy. Sinsi Hernández-Cancio (National Partnership for Women & Families) stresses the importance of storytelling.
