Marcela Howell of BlackWomensRJ: 'Time and time again, Democrats...are too often willing to use funding for abortion for poor women as a bargaining chit for something else they want during negotiations.'
Just months after we celebrated the bicentennial of our country, Congress struck a blow against women’s health and rights with passage ofto a funding bill for the then-Department of Health, Education and Welfare, to ban the use of federal funds for abortion.
Yet House Democrats, under the leadership of Speaker Pelosi, continue to use them as just that. Just this summer, Democrats brokered a deal. This fundamental act of betrayal put the health care of poor women, many of whom are Black women, on the auction block, selling off our access to full reproductive health without even a fight—even a small skirmish.
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