One Year Later, Women of Color Still Pushing Back Against Kavanaugh

By Guest Contributor: Sung Yeon Choimorrow (Executive Director, NAPAWF) One year after the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme…

Trump’s Title X ‘Gag Rule’ Hurts Asian American Women and Other WOC Who Need Access to Reproductive Healthcare

The Trump administration is holding true to the president’s campaign trail promise to wage a war on women, and the…

Why NIFLA v. Becerra is a Watershed Moment for Women of Color

By Guest Contributor: Sung Yeon Choimorrow, Executive Director, NAPAWF, Author at HMHB This week, as the Supreme Court begins hearing NIFLA…

43 Years after Roe v. Wade, Reproductive Rights Still Matter to AAPIs | #Roe43

43 years ago today, the Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision that would serve as an important foundation principle…

Appeals Court Dismisses NAACP & NAPAWF Lawsuit Challenging Arizona’s Racist Anti-Abortion Ban

Earlier this year, I named the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF) one of my Giving Tuesday Top 5…

Jindal Cuts Medicaid Funding for Planned Parenthood as Senate Efforts to Defund Group Fail

In the wake of a smear campaign against Planned Parenthood — one of the nation’s largest healthcare service providers for…

Why are feticide laws disproportionately criminalizing pregnant women of colour?

Last month, Purvi Patel faced two seemingly contradictory charges filed against her by the state of Indiana: feticide (actions leading to…

San Francisco adopts resolution prohibiting sex-selective abortion bans

Earlier last week, I wrote about a resolution authored by San Francisco Board of Supervisors representative David Chiu prohibiting sex-selective…

San Francisco poised to become first city to ban racist anti-Asian abortion bans

Over the past several years, anti-abortion lawmakers have been using a variety of legislative tactics to throw legal barriers in…