Amy Littlefield on the fight for Abortion Rights, plus Chesa Boudin on Progressive Prosecutors
How Americans are fighting back to protect abortion rights: now it’s all up to the states, where activists are fighting to elect pro-choice candidates and strengthen laws protecting abortion rights, and grassroots groups are preparing an enormous logistics operation to move people across entire regions of the country that are about to go dark on abortion access. Amy Littlefield reports--she’s The Nation’s abortion access correspondent.
Also: Chesa Boudin, the elected district attorney of San Francisco, on progressive prosecutors and their opponents: progressive prosecutors have been pushing for criminal justice reform for a while now, seeking to end mass incarceration and deal with police misconduct, starting with the election of Larry Krasner in Philadelphia in 2017, then Chesa in 2019 and George Gascon in Los Angeles in 2020. Of course the defeated law and order forces pushed back; in San Francisco, opponents have collected enough signatures to force a recall vote on Chesa on June 7.
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