Office of Rep. Marilyn Strickland announcement.
Today (Sept. 23, 2023), U.S. Representative Marilyn Strickland (WA-10) received Planned Parenthood’s 2023 Champion of Reproductive Health Award for her work highlighting how the Dobbs decision – which repealed the constitutional right to abortion – disproportionately affects low-income families and particularly women of color. Strickland is a leader in the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus and the Congressional Black Maternal Health Caucus.
“I’m honored to be Planned Parenthood’s 2023 Champion of Reproductive Health,” said Strickland. “In the face of increasing and systematic restrictions on women’s rights, I am committed now more than ever to ensuring that all women, regardless of where they live or their economic background, have equitable access to safe and affordable reproductive healthcare.”
The Champion of Reproductive Health Award honors leaders of reproductive healthcare who continue to support the right to choose within Black communities.
Strickland has a strong record and commitment to championing reproductive healthcare, protecting a woman’s right to choose, and using her platform to highlight how the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe disproportionately affects women of color. Last Congress, the House passed her Ensuring Women’s Right to Reproductive Freedom Act, which would protect women’s right to travel across state lines for reproductive care including abortions, without criminal punishment. She also led a bicameral push to create a reproductive health travel fund to provide grant assistance for women who are forced to travel long distances for reproductive and abortion care.
Planned Parenthood also honored other influential champions for reproductive rights, including actress Leslie Jones who received the Entertainer of the Year award, journalist Imara Jones who received the Advocate of the Year award, the PP Gen Action Chapter which received Planned Parenthood Generation Action’s HBCU Youth Award, and Kentucky State University student Eric McPheeters who received the Human Rights Campaign’s HBCU Youth Award.
Champion of euphemisms. If what these people are doing is so wonderful, their deeds shouldn’t need to be described in such couched language. Very disappointed in this blog.
I am bewildered that those who advocate for the “right to choose” have replaced the use of the word “abortion” with the phrase “reproductive health”. I can see it being called women’s health care, but not reproductive health, as it pertains to the mother’s health only and not that of the life that has been reproduced. If anything call it what it is, reproductive termination. Furthermore, if Congresswomen Strickland wants to bask in the glory or being a champion of this, perhaps she should also give thanks to her mother for not exercising her right to “reproductive health”.
Oh gosh, It seems pretty interesting to me that 2 men responded to this article rather than
a woman or two.
I think John and John ‘s point is well taken! Why didn’t she (Strickland) admit she was okay with the term “abortion”… my guess it’s a political hot rail!
I’m not a politician nor do I have any aspirations to public office, although I admire anyone
who is willing and generous enough to to do it. So I’m happy to give my and only my opinion.
I’m at an advantage, I’m a mother of three, grandmother to 6 so I’ve had some experience with
motherhood. I had and have a supportive husband who wanted to be a father, financially able to support us all. Not rich, but hardly likely to want or need an abortion!
Imagine an uneducated teen/disabled/unsupported/unstable kid pregnant….who decides for
her.. a couple of earnest men…think about it!
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