ABORTION/PLANNED PARENTHOOD/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Planned Parenthood will announce on Tuesday [2-13-18] a new campaign to help expand access to reproductive health care state-by-state, CNN has learned.
The nonprofit is working alongside state lawmakers, advocates for reproductive rights and partners — such as the Oklahoma Coalition for Reproductive Justice, Latino Memphis in Tennessee and the Michigan Progressive Women’s Caucus — to push reproductive rights policies in more than a dozen states and DC this week. The organization, its partners, policymakers and activists plan to advance initiatives in all 50 states by the end of the year…
This week’s push includes advancing policies in Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Tennessee, West Virginia and the District of Columbia. The policies include protections for birth control insurance coverage and bills that expand access to abortion, according to Planned Parenthood…
Meanwhile, activists for abortion rights continue to protest the Trump administration’s agenda… Planned Parenthood is hoping to ride the resistance momentum from the past year.”
-Saba Hamedy, “Riding the momentum from the #resistance, Planned Parenthood is ‘going on the offense’,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, Feb. 13, 2018 10:15am