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She was one of the five Black women to testify before a congressional committee that investigated the Memphis Riots of 1866. She is believed to be the first trans woman to testify before the United States Congress. Thompson and a housemate, Lucy Smith, were attacked by a white mob and were among many freedwomen who were raped during the riots. [1]
In September 2015, Jessen testified at a Congressional hearing investigating Planned Parenthood's practices regarding fetal tissue donation, following the Planned Parenthood 2015 undercover videos controversy. During her testimony, Jessen said she would ask Planned Parenthood the following question: "If abortion is about women's rights, then ...
[31] The full quotation from Blackwell, who was the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States, reads: "The gross perversion and destruction of motherhood by the abortionist filled me with indignation, and awakened active antagonism."
Abby Johnson (born July 11, 1980) [1] is an American anti-abortion activist who previously worked at Planned Parenthood as a clinic director, but resigned in October 2009. She states that she resigned after watching an abortion on ultrasound.
Handy was moved by the experience of seeing women walking into an abortion clinic, and started to attend church several days a week. [2] Six weeks later she skipped her final exams, dropped out of school, sold all her belongings, and moved to California to become a full-time activist with Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust .
The woman who was at the center of a yearslong Justice Department investigation into sex trafficking allegations surrounding Rep. Matt Gaetz testified to the House Ethics Committee that the now ...
As tensions on campus simmered, Gay and the presidents of the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were called to testify before Congress about disciplinary ...
Gosnell has been heavily criticized for racism on the basis that he separated white women from black women, giving white women a slightly cleaner room for their abortion procedures. [ 35 ] [ 9 ] It was also claimed that he charged $1,600 – 3,000 for each late-term abortion , and had made $10,000 – 15,000 per day from the clinic.