Posts Tagged ‘Alabama’
National Abortion Federation Files Amicus Brief in Legal Battle Over Alabama’s COVID-19 Executive Order’s Impact on Abortion
Yesterday, the National Abortion Federation joined 20 other women’s and civil rights organizations in filing an amicus brief explaining the undue burden that Alabama’s COVID-19 Executive Order poses to abortion providers and already marginalized communities. Anti-abortion politicians in Alabama are exploiting the current global pandemic to try and deny women access to the abortion care…
Read MoreAlabama passes attack on Roe v. Wade
Statement of The Very Reverend Katherine Ragsdale, Interim President and CEO of the National Abortion Federation (NAF), on Alabama’s passage of a blatant attack on Roe v. Wade: “In passing this atrocious bill, Alabama’s state legislators have shown their complete disregard for the U.S. Constitution and the needs of their constituents. Anti-choice politicians have once…
Read MoreWhat’s happened since the Supreme Court’s Whole Woman’s Health decision?
We have received a number of requests to have our “The Burden is Undue” rally signs you’ve seen everywhere available as a t-shirt. So, we had to make it happen! You can purchase one of these shirts here. Make sure you order your shirt before July 20th to get it in the first batch to…
Read MoreVicki Saporta and NAF Members in Alabama awarded ACLU’s highest honor
(From left to right) NAF member Gloria Gray, NAF President and CEO Vicki Saporta, NAF member Dalton Johnson, ACLU President Susan N. Herman, ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero, NAF member June Ayers at the 2015 ACLU Biennial Leadership Conference, Awards Gala, Seattle, Wash. June 13, 2015. Photo ©Meryl Schenker The ACLU recently honored Vicki Saporta…
Read MoreAlabama Legislature Launches All Out Attack on Reproductive Health
Today, The Birmingham News, posted my letter to the editor on a medically unnecessary and politically motivated TRAP bill introduced in the Alabama legislature. The Alabama legislature is launching an all out attack on the reproductive health care of women and their families in the state. …
Read MoreNAF Staff in the Field: Protecting our Members in Alabama
Update 2 Tuesday morning about 20 OSA demonstrators gathered at Planned Parenthood and about 25 more at the New Woman All Women’s clinic, while a group of about 120 traveled to Tuscaloosa to protest at the clinic there. I spent my day monitoring the situation and assisting clinic staff in Tuscaloosa. The group there included…
Read MoreNAF Staff in the Field: Protecting our Members in Alabama
This week in Birmingham, Alabama, anti-abortion group Operation Save America (OSA) will be protesting at Planned Parenthood and the New Woman All Women clinic. New Woman All Women was the clinic that was bombed by convicted murderer Eric Robert Rudolph in 1998. An off duty police officer, employed as a security guard, was killed and…
Read MoreAlabama Man Sentenced to Probation for Clinic Attack
On Thursday, an Alabama man was sentenced for driving his car into a Tuscaloosa abortion clinic in January 2006. Dalton Ray Skinner was ordered to pay $6,100 in damages, serve five years of probation, and live in an in-house substance abuse center until he successfully completes the treatment program. The judge also ordered Skinner to…
Read MoreAlabama Man Pleads Guilty in Clinic Attack
Dalton Ray Skinner pleaded guilty Tuesday to a January attack on the West Alabama Women’s Center where he drove his car into the front entrance while the clinic was closed. Skinner was indicted in April on one charge of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, which makes it a federal crime to…
Read MoreAbortion Clinics in Alabama
An Associated Press article examines how it has become increasingly difficult for abortion clinics in Alabama to find backup physicians to work at their clinics, as providers’ face hostility, harassment, and threats of violence. The article cites our statistics on violence,which we have been compiling against abortion providers since 1977. Our comprehensive database is an…
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