The Activists Going State by State to Make Abortion Rights Constitutional Law

Lucy Leriche was seated in a Chicago conference room, attending a national policy conference for Planned Parenthood in June 2018, when news of former Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement broke. The announcement sent a chilling effect through the room. With Donald Trump in the Oval Office, an inevitability came into focus: “At that moment, we all knew, I knew, that the end of Roe v. Wade was near,” Leriche, a former Vermont state representative who is now the vice president of Vermont public affairs for the Northern New England chapter of Planned Parenthood and the Planned Parenthood Vermont Action… Read Full Article