The Asymmetry in the Abortion-Rights Movement

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : The balance of power is likewise weighted toward the top: the huge and stunningly well-endowed national organizations, such as Planned Parenthood and the A.C.L.U., and their formidable apparatus of donors, PACs, attorneys, consultants, and communications strategists, whose gravitational pull is toward New York City and Washington, D.C.
56% : They play a crucial role in reproductive care across the U.S., often working in partnership with Planned Parenthood, which runs its own network of providers, and the National Abortion Federation, which supports patients who receive care at independent clinics.
55% : "Planned Parenthood is the largest provider of reproductive health care in the country, with about six hundred clinics in all fifty states.
54% : "Wallace, in Tampa Bay, values the close relationships she has with patient navigators at Planned Parenthood and case managers at the National Abortion Federation, who work with her to help patients locate abortion providers and patch together funding for their procedures and wraparound care.
52% : The amendment, which would have enshrined the right to abortion in Florida's state constitution, had strong backing from advocacy heavyweights such as Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union.
50% : "Abortion Access Now launched in June; the following month, Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation reduced the subsidies they offer to low-income patients to thirty per cent, down from fifty per cent in most states.
49% : One of the few strong constituencies the Party has left is the college-educated professional class, which favored Harris over Trump by fifty-five per cent.
47% : When Planned Parenthood and its affiliates make adjustments to their subsidies and prices, advocates who provide direct services can be caught off guard.
45% : She also said, in an e-mail, "Pitting the finances of abortion funds and Planned Parenthood against each other is not going to help us secure access in the upcoming administration.
42% : The letter criticized a new project called Abortion Access Now, a ten-year campaign by a coalition including Planned Parenthood and the A.C.L.U., which, according to Politico, will prepare reproductive-rights policy "for the next time Democrats control the House, Senate, and White House."

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