Jessica Mason Pieklo is the Vice President, Law and the Courts at Rewire.News, an award-winning, non-profit daily online publication devoted to evidence-based reporting on reproductive and sexual health, rights, and justice, and the intersections of racial, environmental, immigration, and economic justice.
In the past decade, right-wing efforts to end legal abortion in the United States have reached a fever pitch, with anti-abortion legislation being introduced in several 'red'-and even some 'purple'-states. This war on abortion has had a chilling effect on...[SEE MORE]