Diana Ramirez, senior manager of policy and coalition at the D.C.-based National Women’s Law Center and a former ROC staffer, describes her work as taking place at the intersection of wage and gender justice. “Two-thirds...
Abortion-rights advocates said the decision to strike down Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 case that recognized a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion, energized many voters who had assumed abortion access was safe. “It was...
Heather Shumaker, the director of state abortion access at the National Women’s Law Center, cautioned that, despite Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s reassurance in his concurrence that the right to travel would not be infringed, it’s not...
“It’s important that we recognize that harassment does not exist in a vacuum. It often happens alongside other forms of discrimination like wage and hour violations,” said Andrea Johnson, state policy director for the National Women’s...
"Most people who have abortions already have children, so their lives will be upended by the idea that they can't access health care in their community," Fatima Goss Graves says, president and CEO of the National...
"Particularly for Black survivors, who are less likely to be believed, there are deep and real concerns when they have contact with the criminal justice system," Fatima Goss Graves, president of the National Women's Law...
