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Black Women Voters Mount Campaign on Reproductive Freedom As Ballot Issue To Protect Abortion (TSN): The end of Roe V. Wade has placed Black women at the center of the culture war on reproductive freedom. According to a new poll from health policy research firm KFF, a quarter of Black women voters say abortion their top issue in this year's presidential election,. A Black women-led reproductive justice organization In Our Own Voice has launched the I Am A Reproductive Justice Voter campaign. Their mission as stated on  www.blackrj.org  is to "engage Black voters in 12 states and mobilize turnout in support of policies that promote Reproductive Justice issues" and to draw more Black voters to the polls. Organizers of the In Our Own Voices did not claim to speak for all Black voters but the voices of those who want to preserve their rights to abort is growing louder than Black voters who oppose it in mainstream media. Has the Black community, faith based voters in particula...

buzzz worthy. . . Today, we mark the 43rd anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade , which affirmed a woman’s freedom to make her own choices about her body and her health. The decision supports the broader principle that the government should not intrude on private decisions made between a woman and her doctor. As we commemorate this day, we also redouble our commitment to protecting these constitutional rights, including protecting a woman’s access to safe, affordable health care and her right to reproductive freedom from efforts to undermine or overturn them. In America, every single one of us deserves the rights, freedoms, and opportunities to fulfill our dreams.