Youth to the Front: Meet Bans Off Our Bodies Fort Worth
Q1. How did y’all meet? And, what inspired y’all to decide to organize to pass the G.R.A.C.E. Act in Fort Worth? The group all started with the protest immediately following the Dobb’s leak. The organizer of the local Fort Worth protest created a GroupMe to...
Youth to the Front: Meet Hiba Faruqi
Q1. What inspired you to get involved in abortion rights, health, and justice in Texas? When I attended the Austin Women’s March last October, I found a community of people equally as enraged as I was. Following SB 8, I was really angry and not sure where to channel...
Youth to the Front: Meet Frontera Folx
Q1. How did y’all meet? And, come together as a group? We came together after a friend of ours who worked for Planned Parenthood told us they couldn’t be on campus because of Title IX. Because of who our community is made up of middle to lower class, early generations...
Youth to the Front: Meet the Lubbock Teen who Passed Out Condoms at Prom
Evangelina Zubia, 16, lives in Lubbock, Texas and volunteers with Jane’s Due Process. In May of 2021, Lubbock passed an ordinance banning abortion in the city. But Evangelina tells us not to make too many assumptions about the folks in this South Plains...
Youth to the Front: Meet the San Marcos Abortion Activists
The G.R.A.C.E Act — a resolution cities can pass to declare that they will be de-prioritizing enforcement of criminal laws related to abortion — has been passed in Austin, Denton, Dallas, El Paso, and San Antonio, and it’s being considered in...From the Blog
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