Posts Tagged ‘Abortion rights’
Standing Up for Reproductive Rights
An enthusiastic crowd turned out on Saturday morning, May 14th, at Pack Square Park in downtown Asheville to stand up for reproductive justice. With the Supreme Court set to overturn Roe, this battle clearly isn’t going to end soon. The next few months probably won’t be pretty. But there are concrete steps we can take…
Read MoreHelp Support Local Abortion Funds
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to overturn Roe v. Wade, the nearly half-century ruling that acknowledged abortion as a legal right in the United States. There are now 26 states lined up to criminalize abortion as soon as Roe is overturned, and 13 of those already have trigger laws on the books that will…
Read MoreStop Six-Week Abortion Bans!
Sign the petition to protect our reproductive freedoms and stop six-week abortion bans! People in Texas still cannot access abortion because of the recent extreme abortion ban, and other states are following suit and trying to pass copycat laws. In fact, states have enacted more than 100 abortion restrictions this year in what has become the most restrictive year…
Read MoreWomen’s Rights March
Join the Women’s Rights March on Saturday, October 2nd, at 1:30 pm, in front of the Art Museum, at 2 Pack Square, in downtown Asheville.
Read MoreNational Women’s Reproductive Rights Rally
The Progressive Alliance of Henderson County is uniting with the National Rally, Saturday, October 2nd, from 1 to 2 pm, for a vigil on all four corners of 6th and King Streets, in Hendersonville.
Read MoreRally Against Abortion Bans
Come downtown October 2nd and join the Rally Against Abortion Bans beginning at 11:30 am in North Pack Square.
Read MoreDefend Women’s Rights Rally
Join with the Women’s March at 11 am, on October 2nd, in Weaverville, to send a clear message to our congressmen and the Supreme Court that we will not tolerate the continued attack on our reproductive rights.
Read MoreSupport Reproductive Rights for All
Texas has essentially banned all abortions, South Dakota is restricting medication abortions, and Oklahoma threatens medical providers with the loss of their licenses. And as this recent article in North Carolina Health News makes clear, North Carolina is not far behind. Most alarming, the Supreme Court will soon hear a challenge to a Mississippi ban,…
Read MoreTell Gov. Cooper to VETO HB 453
HB453 passed the Senate on Thursday, June 10. Please call and email Governor Roy Cooper *NOW* to tell him to veto HB 453! Call: (919) 814-2000 Email: https://governor.nc.gov/contact/contact-governor-cooper CALL/EMAIL SCRIPT (if no answer, please leave this as a message): Hello, Governor Cooper. My name is _________, I am one of your constituents, I live in…
Read MoreNARAL Pro-Choice NC Annual Spring Into Action Gala
Join NARAL Pro-Choice NC for a (virtual) spring gala, honoring the life and legacy of activist Susan Hill, a determined pioneer for reproductive rights who established clinics in rural areas with no access to abortion services. In 2007, Hill received the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation’s Nancy Susan Reynolds Award for public advocacy in the face…
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