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AZProgressive

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Sun Oct 17, 2021, 05:14 PM Oct 2021

'For all families and gender identities': WNBA union denounces Texas abortion ban in New York Times

“Reproductive rights are human rights. Family planning is freedom.”

This statement is at the heart of a full-page print ad that the WNBA players’ union is running in the New York Times on Sunday against Texas’ six-week abortion ban and in support of reproductive rights, in what the player’s association executive director Terri Jackson described to The 19th as a first for the league.

“You’ve seen the players stand up in a myriad of ways,” she said. But taking a stance in the Times, with players adding their signatures to the declaration, is new ground: “We haven’t done this before.”

The ad had its debut the same day as Game 4 of the 2021 WNBA Finals and comes after Texas’ abortion ban went back into place following a temporary emergency stay by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit.

https://19thnews.org/2021/10/wnba-union-buys-new-york-times-ad-against-texas-abortion-law/?amp&__twitter_impression=true

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'For all families and gender identities': WNBA union denounces Texas abortion ban in New York Times (Original Post) AZProgressive Oct 2021 OP
Yeah, refuse to play pro sports games in TX. And then college.... dutch777 Oct 2021 #1
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