When the Supreme Court struck down Woe v Wade, dozens of women searched for organizations to help those who were about to lose Access to abortion in their states, and in their search found Elevated Access. Elevated Access is a non-profit that helps transport women via small planes who must travel out of state for […]
Nonprofit Elevated Access Flies Women Who Need to Travel Out-of-State to Get a Legal Abortion
July 7, 2023 By
PODER PAC Statement on the The Supreme Court’s Decision in Dobbs v. Jackson that Has Overturned Roe v. Wade, Eliminating the Federal Constitutional Right to Abortion
June 24, 2022 By
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, eliminating the Federal constitutional right to abortion–a right women have held for nearly 50 years. PODER PAC, the only national political action committee solely dedicated to electing Pro-Choice Democratic Latinas to Congress, made the following statement: “There are no words to describe […]
Salvadorian Women Have Suffered from Decades of Being Jailed for Stillbirths and Miscarriages, Now They Warn the U.S.
June 13, 2022 By
In El Salvador, where abortion is banned under all circumstances, nurses and doctors are forced to report suspected abortions, or they could face prosecution. Women who seek medical care because of a miscarriage or botched abortion are often turned over for investigation. The burden of prosecution and punishment overwhelmingly falls on poor, young women who […]
Latinx Community Will Be Disproportionally Affected if Roe v. Wade is Reversed
May 4, 2022 By
Latinos on the front lines of providing abortions under increasingly restrictive state anti-abortion laws said that the leaked opinion signals an end to abortion access and that it would disproportionally affect Latinx people and other communities of color. After Monday’s leak of a draft U.S. Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, the […]
Second-Generation Latinos Seemingly More Democratic Than Parents
February 11, 2013 By
A new study from the Pew Research Center reports that second-generation Latinos lean more democratic than their parents by almost 10%, 71% to 63%. “What’s striking over the past several decades is that the two groups at the heart of the modern immigration wave — Hispanics and Asian-Americans — have both been trending Democratic over […]
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