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…
Tag: Reproductive Justice
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…
BREAKING: Purvi Patel Released After Appeals Court Overturns Feticide Conviction
Just over a month after her feticide conviction was overturned by an Indiana Appeals Court, Purvi Patel has been freed.…
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…
2015 Asian America in Review: Top 10 AANHPI Stories You Might Have Missed
As the year winds down to a close, these are the top ten political stories that had a major impact…
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…