SCOTUS Chat: Medication Abortion, a win at the court of appeals, and more news
April 8, 2024
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SCOTUS Chat: Medication Abortion
Gender Justice legal and policy team and the Lawyering Project’s Deputy Executive Director for Legal Programs Amanda Allen discussed the oral arguments, current landscape of access, and the future of access to medication abortion. If you missed this incredible panel discussion, you can watch the briefing on YouTube or listen to the briefing on our podcast, The Gender Justice Brief!
Bolstering Reproductive Telehealth Access through Community Education
The Reproductive Health Initiative for Telehealth Equity & Solutions (RHITES) is holding a webinar on April 15 that will feature four RHITES grantees, including California Latinas for Reproductive Justice (California), CHOICES Center for Reproductive Health (Tennessee), Cobalt (Colorado), and Just The Pill (Minnesota, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado), who have each focused on projects on advancing community education around telehealth to increase access to care. Sign up for the webinar.
A Win at the Court of Appeals
In a historic and groundbreaking decision, the Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled that a pharmacist’s refusal to fill a woman’s prescription for emergency contraception based on his personal beliefs constitutes illegal sex discrimination under the Minnesota Human Rights Act. The ruling is the first in the United States to find sex discrimination in the context of a pharmacy’s refusal to fill such a prescription.
Check out this news coverage on the case from StarTribune.
Gender Justice Awarded Groundbreaking Grant
Gender Justice, the organizational home of UnRestrict Minnesota, received a transformational gift of $2 million from MacKenzie Scott’s Yield Giving Open Call, which awarded a cohort of community-led, community-focused organizations working with people and in places experiencing the greatest need in the United States. Among this cohort, Gender Justice was one of the highest-scoring organizations to receive an award. This is the largest one-time gift in Gender Justice’s history.
Read more about this gift and what it means for Gender Justice’s work!
That’s it for this week. Thanks for reading!