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Accessing reproductive health care remains challenging for many Oregonians

Although the state protects abortion rights in its constitution, volunteers and collectives work to address other barriers to care like cost, transportation and medical advocacy After advocating for abortion rights professionally for years, Liz Starke, de ...

26 Jul 2024 - Zoe Toperosky
Navigating a post-Roe world: abortion access for Native Americans

Native Americans seeking abortions must negotiate a complex maze of legal, financial and jurisdictional barriers to receive care Editor's note: This story contains graphic descriptions of sexual violence. After the landmark Supreme Court decision in ...

13 Jul 2022 - Melanie Henshaw
Oregon abortion providers prepare for increased demand

As providers are dealing with increasing numbers of out-of-state patients, rural Oregonians also face a lack of access The leaked Supreme Court draft revealing the likely reversal of the landmark abortion rights decision Roe v. Wade is reverberating acros ...

25 May 2022 - Melanie Henshaw
Opinion | Thank you, abortion providers, for providing critical health care despite political attacks

Every day, abortion providers across the country provide essential health care to patients — with compassion and without judgment. They do this while navigating growing barriers to care that make it increasingly difficult to provide abortion. Planned Pare ...

9 Mar 2022 - Anne Udall
Opinion | 48 years later, Roe v. Wade hangs by a thread

As we celebrate new leadership in Washington, D.C., and Salem, we know there is still much to be done to protect reproductive rights This week marks 48 years since the U.S. Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade established the legal right to an abortion. Yet nea ...

20 Jan 2021 - Beverly Pearman
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s fight endures; these Oregonians are making sure of it

RBG was a champion for reproductive freedom, equal pay and pregnancy accommodations, and her work carries on through these advocates T he late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has long been acclaimed for carrying the weight of progressive issues in the Supreme ...

7 Oct 2020 - Hanna Merzbach
Opinion | With Trump appointing anti-abortion judges, the fight for reproductive freedom is critical

Planned Parenthood PAC of Oregon’s director urges Oregonians to remain united against the White House’s harmful policies Donald Trump has broken plenty of campaign promises, but this summer, we were reminded of one that he kept. He pledged to appoint just ...

10 Aug 2020 - Emily McLain
In Oregon, reproductive rights prevail even as pandemic limits some services

The regional arm of Planned Parenthood and its advocacy partner are adapting, and the women who head these organizations discuss how As jobless claims in Oregon climbed, newly unemployed individuals across the state sought out health care providers that s ...

28 May 2020 - Anna Pedersen
Keep abortion safe, legal and affordable for all

COMMENTARY | Rights don’t matter if you can’t access them and afford them “There’s a sorry situation in the United States, which is essentially that poor women don’t have choice. Women of means do. They will, always.” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg made thes ...

21 Sep 2018 - Emily McLain
Family planning is a basic human right

COMMENTARY | This is also 'central to women’s empowerment, reducing poverty and achieving sustainable development' It has been five decades since the international community affirmed the right to family planning, but many women still remain unab ...

27 Jul 2018 - Tharanga Yakupi...