Register Here For June’s Program
After registering at above link, you will receive a confirmation email containing
information about joining the meeting Tue 6-24, 2025, 12 noon to 1:15 PM (ET).
It is a major challenge for feminists to keep informed of the major threats to reproductive rights that have
increased in the current Trump 2 Administration at the Federal and State levels. We have experts to help us
understand the history, types, and importance of these threats to women’s health in general and to understand
the possibilities and challenges of medication as it is used for contraception and abortion in the U.S and the
world. Jan Erickson, Co-President of CWI will introduce the presenters and moderate this CWI meeting with
questions and answers from the virtual participants.
Laurel Sakai, National Director for Public Policy and Government Relations, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Planned Parenthood Federation of America will lead the discussion by providing a brief history of contraception, abortion and Planned Parenthood in the US. Then she will discuss post-Roe threats such as what was proposed in Project 2025, has been attempted by Trump’s executive orders, and is under consideration in Congress. She will then cover strategies and actions that give us hope and describe how we can counteract these threats. She will conclude by describing what is needed to maintain federal funding for Planned Parenthood, which is threatened with a proposed “defund” in both the Senate and House versions of the Reconciliation language.
Kirsten Moore, Director of Expanding Medication Abortion Access (EMAAProject.org) which seeks to improve the way medications prescribed for medication abortion care are dispensed in the U.S. to make the process consistent with the medical and scientific evidence and to meet women’s needs. Kirsten Moore will focus on the difference between emergency contraception and abortion. She will also explain how medications often used for abortions also help with many other health solutions and thus why restrictions on their use are even more dangerous. Her call to action is for MifeInAll 50.
After the Q&A at the end of the meeting, we will have the CWI annual elections meeting of its officers and
board of directors. Please let Sue Klein or Jan Erickson know if you would like to join us on the CWI Board.
The Board Members who will continue to the second year of their term include Holly Taggert Joseph, Treasurer; Kathy Chiron, Secretary; and Loretto Gubernatis, VP Media Outreach. The Members who will run for reelection during the 6/24 meeting to terms ending in 2027 include Sue Klein and Jan Erickson, Co-Presidents; Connie Cordovilla, VP Membership; Alotta Taylor, VP Diversity; Jeanette Lim Esbrook, VP Legal Affairs; D. Ann VP Legal Affairs; D. Anne Martin, VP Organizational Management; and Sherry Klein, VP Technology.
Cordially, Sue Klein and Jan Erickson, CWI Co-Presidents