Center for Reproductive Rights

💔 There are no words. Nevaeh Crain was just 18 years old. She and her loving boyfriend were excited to start a family, and her mother was behind her every step of the way. But when a routine pregnancy complication arose, doctors’ hands were tied by Texas’s extreme abortion ban and they couldn’t give her the basic medical care she desperately needed. Instead, these cruel laws forced Nevaeh to suffer for two whole days until her blood pressure dropped, until a deadly infection took hold, until she began internally bleeding, until her organs failed. Texas’s abortion ban caused her death and her family’s immeasurable grief. It is 2024. No human being should be dying a completely preventable death because of a cruel abortion ban enacted by state politicians without medical degrees. We cannot continue like this. We refuse to allow anti-abortion extremists to write off Nevaeh’s precious life as some kind of sick collateral damage to their selfish political games. We refuse to allow her name to be erased, and we refuse to be silent about this unbearable, unnecessary, unrelenting injustice. Nevaeh Crain deserved better. Josseli Barnica deserved better. Candi Miller deserved better. Amber Nicole Thurman deserved better. Every single one of us deserves better.

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Josseli Barnica’s death was preventable. She should be here today with her family, living out her dream of raising her daughter and growing her family. Instead, she lost her life due to a lengthy and excruciating delay in necessary medical care—a direct result of Texas’s cruel, extreme, and confusing abortion bans.

The Institute for Women's Policy Research released a new analysis detailing the economic impact of abortion bans on state economies and women’s workforce participation. The trend is clear: Abortion bans hurt state economies.

Let's set the record straight: There is NO link between abortion and breast cancer! #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth #October #MythBusting #ReproRights #Abortion

💔 Josseli Barnica should be alive today. She should have gotten more time with her beloved daughter and husband in Houston. She should have gotten more time with her loved ones in Honduras. She should have gotten more time. Period. She didn’t get that time because of Texas’s cruel, extreme, and confusing abortion ban—and it’s imperative that we call that out. It’s imperative to place the blame firmly on the bans that are in place and the anti-abortion lawmakers behind them. Make no mistake: These lawmakers KNEW their bans would put pregnant women at risk. They KNEW doctors’ hands would be tied. And they KNEW the meaningless, so-called “medical exceptions” they wrote into the bans would not work in practice. They did not care. And they still do not seem to care. Josseli’s death was preventable. As were the deaths of Candi Miller and Amber Thurman. They could and should have had more precious time with their children and loved ones. Our hearts are with Josseli’s family, and we are thinking of her as we continue the work to end these deadly bans.

When Nancy Northup ’88 began as CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights in 2003, the U.S. was 30 years into constitutional protection of the right to an abortion recognized by Roe v. Wade. Since the Supreme Court reversed Roe in 2022, the landscape that Northup and the center are working in has changed. “We have always worked on a whole set of issues: contraception, safe maternity care, abortion care, fertility care, all of it,” she says. “People are really understanding that it is tied together in the concept of reproductive autonomy.” Northup discusses the influence of her upbringing and the feminist movement on her career path, her experience at Columbia Law School, and her work with the center to frame reproductive rights as a human rights issue. https://bit.ly/3YvNblv

Forcing people to travel a thousand miles for abortion care is not just a logistical burden; it’s a violation of a person's right to receive timely medical services. Go to https://lnkd.in/getY_eCP to join Vanessa Carlton and the Center for Reproductive Rights in telling Congress: It's time to protect reproductive health care NATIONWIDE. #AbortionIsHealthcare #AThousandMilesForCare Music credits: “A Thousand Miles” written & performed by Vanessa Carlton Courtesy of A&M Records under license from Universal Music Enterprises

Abortion is health care. And no one should be forced to travel a thousand miles for it. Go to https://lnkd.in/dBS3Aj4N to join Vanessa Carlton and the Center for Reproductive Rights in telling Congress: It's time to protect reproductive health care NATIONWIDE. #AbortionIsHealthCare Music credits: “A Thousand Miles” written & performed by Vanessa Carlton Courtesy of A&M Records under license from Universal Music Enterprise

It's true—pregnant people in the U.S. are having to travel increasingly long distances for abortion care, with many going a thousand miles or more. Last year alone, abortion bans forced more than 170,000 people to flee their home states to get the care they wanted or needed. Countless more couldn’t afford to make the journey. Abortion is an essential aspect of health care and NO ONE should be forced to travel for it. Thank you, Vanessa, for using your song to bring attention to cruelty of state abortion bans and for joining us in urging Congress to protect reproductive freedom for all Americans.