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is the co-executive director of the Women’s Law Project, for which she founded the Western Pennsylvania office in 2002. She provides direct representation for the 17 freestanding abortion facilities in Pennsylvania. Prior to joining the Women’s Law Project she was the Deputy Director of the Pennsylvania ACLU.
This episode is a part of the latest installment of Ms. Magazine’s Women and Democracy platform, “The ERA Is Essential to Democracy.”Welcome to 15 Minutes of Feminism, part of our On the Issues with Michele Goodwin at Ms. Magazine platform. As you know, we report, rebel, and we tell it just like it is. We count the minutes in our own feminist terms on 15 Minutes of Feminism, but we dive right in and that’s what I’m doing right now with Susan Frietsche.
That prevents about one in four we think low-income people from having access to abortion all together. So, we have a state ban as well as the federal Hyde Amendment and we challenged it years ago in the 1980s and in 1985 we got a ruling that kind of closed the door on Medicaid funding challenges under our state constitution. So, we know our federal constitution doesn’t require equitable funding.
So, they went after Medicaid coverage of abortion and they passed something called the Hyde Amendment which is an appropriations bill rider that passes every year, and it denies federal Medicaid funding for abortion.Even though funding can be used if you go to labor delivery and childbirth. So, it’s really the state making the choice about what the outcome would be, right? So, funding if you’re going to deliver and no funding if you choose not to deliver.
She brought a case before the court about her equality under law, that she should be able to be a lawyer like her husband and the Supreme Court instead of dealing with that they sort of sanctioned her to the care of her husband and children which was not the question she asked the court to address for her.
The World Health Organization compares their safety to a penicillin shot.
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