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Albert Wynn and Gloria Feldt on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court to rally for legal abortion on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. The United States abortion-rights movement (also known as the pro-choice movement) is a sociopolitical movement in the United States supporting the view that a woman should have the legal right to an elective abortion, meaning the right to terminate her pregnancy ...
NARAL Pro-Choice America, a 501(c)(4) organization that engages in lobbying, political action, and advocacy efforts to oppose restrictions on abortion and expand access to abortion National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice , a coalition of grassroots organizations and unions dedicated to building a coordinated mass defense of full ...
The term pro-choice entered currency after pro-life and was coined by those who supported legal abortion as a response to the success of the pro-life branding. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] The first use of the term cited by the Oxford English Dictionary is in a 1969 issue of the California daily newspaper the Oxnard Press-Courier , which referred to "Pro-choice ...
But a competing measure—Initiative 434—passed 55.3 percent to 44.7 percent and, while not as supportive of legal abortion as 439, it's also something of a pro-choice bill.
Students for Life of Action, the legislative arm of one of the largest pro-life groups in the country, released a "Make America Pro-Life Again Roadmap" this week signaling their plans to combat ...
Pro-life groups are skeptical but optimistic about the nomination of pro-choice Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services under the Trump administration.
A Gallup poll in 2011 found that 27% of Republicans identified themselves as "pro-choice". [3] However, 42% of Republicans support legal abortion during the first trimester. [ 4 ] In 2017, Gallup released polling information showing that 36% of Republicans identified as "pro-choice" and 70% agreed that abortion should be legal in some (56%) or ...
“This election proves that abortion was not the silver bullet Democrats thought it would be,” Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, said in a statement ...