Stephanie Poggi (National Network of Abortion Funds, Executive Director) – Stephanie has been an activist for social justice for more than 30 years. In addition to her work for reproductive freedom, she has worked in feminist and LGBT journalism, the battered women’s and rape crisis movements, and for racial justice, civil rights, and welfare rights. For many years she worked as editor of Gay Community News, the national progressive lesbian/gay weekly, and later served as editor-in-chief of Sojourner: the Women’s Forum, a national feminist newsjournal.
The Obama Administration continues to claim that it supports the right of a woman to make her own decision about whether and when to have a child. But it turns out that the Administration only stands firm when that woman has economic resources.
Health reform was supposed expand care, not exacerbate existing inequalities. Will Obama and the majority Democratic Congress preside over the biggest cutback in reproductive health care for poor women and women of color in decades?
