“We saw the rise of acceptability politics in abortion." - Pamela Merritt

The logical consequence of abortion bans is sending women to jail and we're already seeing that happen in the United States" - Erin Matson

Missouri reviewed data about Planned Parenthood’s patients, including their periods, to identify failed abortions

Reproaction, an abortion and reproductive rights advocacy group, said it is collecting signatures calling on Williams to resign.

Reproaction Hosts Press Conference Demanding End to Prosecuting Pregnancy Outcomes in Missouri

Reproaction co-founder/co-director Pamela Merritt hosted speakers Sara Baker, Legislative and Policy Director, ACLU of Missouri, Mallory Schwarz, Executive Director, NARAL Pro-Choice Missouri, and Indra Woods Lusero, Staff Attorney, National Advocates for Pregnant Women on a call-in press conference to discuss the alarming consequences of criminalizing abortion and prosecuting women for pregnancy outcomes - especially as the St. Louis region has emerged as the front line in the battle to maintain and expand access to abortion.

Trump is a total sexist and everybody knows it but in Pelosi he's found someone who can take him on like no one else." - Erin Matson

If you walk away from this forum with anything, understand the logical consequence of an abortion ban in 2019 is not a wire hanger — it is jail." - Pamela Merritt

This is a deliberate attempt to enshire white supremacy into power through reproductive regulation." - Pamela Merritt

I work with women who, if the price of their birth control went up by five dollars, they would not be able to afford it. And they aren’t joking.” - Pamela Merritt

The reality of the situation is that people always have and always will find ways to end their own pregnancies." - Erin Matson

The only appropriate move is for Missouri to stop using government as a tool of oppression, and immediately renew [the Planned Parenthood clinic’s] license." - Pamela Merritt