The Hear Us Roar in ‘24 rally in Nags Head concluded on a powerful note as nearly100 participants gathered at Dowdy Park to advocate for women’s reproductive rights on the eve of the two-year anniversary of the Dobbs decision reversing a woman’s constitutional right...
Reproductive Rights
Sen. Casey joins organizers to discuss contraception, reproductive rights
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania joined a virtual event titled “Birth Control is On the Ballot,” on Tuesday hosted by Red Wine & Blue, a community organization focused on empowering women to combat political extremism. Katie Paris, the founder...
Newsom Signs Radical Pro-Abortion Legislation in Response to Arizona’s Pro-Life Law
"Now through November 30, 2024, Arizona doctors will be able to provide abortions and abortion-related care for Arizona patients in California if the absolute ban takes effect – even temporarily – and to facilitate continued access to care when Arizona’s 15-week ban...
New Law Permits Arizona Doctors To Perform Abortions In California
"Arizona Republicans tried to turn back the clock to 1864 to impose a near-total abortion ban across their state. We refuse to stand by and acquiesce to their oppressive and dangerous attacks on women," Newsom, a Democrat, said in a statement Thursday. The new law...
Newsom turns to suburban moms
“This is our biggest, most direct effort to help women impacted by abortion bans,” Red Wine & Blue founder Katie Paris says in a video as she sits in front of her children’s watercolor paintings inside her home in Shaker Heights, Ohio. “Creating the types of...
On the one-year anniversary of NC’s 12-week abortion ban, women ready for November
Thursday marked the one-year anniversary of the passage of Senate Bill 20, legislation that banned abortions in North Carolina after 12 weeks. Robinson said in 1975, when she was just 15 years old, she endured a “back-alley abortion” when she was growing up in rural...
Virginia school board to vote whether to reverse school names originally named after Confederates
WOODSTOCK, Va. — A group of supporters in Warren County is prepared to support their neighbors in Shenandoah County fight against an effort to reverse school names back to their original Confederate names. The Shenandoah County School Board is expected to vote on a...
Bucks County Changemakers Interview with Kim Barbaro, Red Wine & Blue’s Deputy Director of ‘TroubleNation’
I am a suburban mom, as is Kim Barbaro. We share similar reasons for standing up, showing up, and speaking out; the vital importance of maintaining democracy in our country, beginning at the local, grassroots level. Barbaro is a powerhouse who acknowledges being an...
On Super Tuesday, abortion is driving Democrats to the polls in North Carolina
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Nicole Sidman walked up a long driveway in a hilly suburban neighborhood of Charlotte, campaign flyers in hand, ready to talk about an issue that prompted her to run in the Democratic primary for the state legislature this year. A chubby white...
Ohio abortion vote excites liberals, but it may not predict 2024 Democratic wins
"Suburban women don't like extremism," said Katie Paris, founder of Red Wine & Blue, an organization focused on mobilizing suburban women. "Suburban women have been very angry about the overturn of Roe, and we're seeing in state after state and now even county...
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