By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 11 years ago

Quick Hit: Advocates talking abortion access at Mother Jones today

"keep abortion safe and legal" signsWe all know that the battle over reproductive rights is mostly being waged in the states–from North Dakota to Texas to Mississippi. Today, Mother Jones is hosting a live discussion with some of the people working on the front lines to “keep choice alive” at the state level. The speakers include advocates from the Center for Reproductive Rights and the ACLU, as well  as Dr. Willie Parker, whose heroic work as an abortion provider at the last remaining clinic Mississippi we’ve highlighted before.

You can submit your questions here or tweet them at @motherjones using the hashtag #KeepingChoiceAlive. The discussion starts at 1pm EST here.

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Maya Dusenbery is executive director in charge of editorial at Feministing. She is the author of the forthcoming book Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick (HarperOne, March 2018). She has been a fellow at Mother Jones magazine and a columnist at Pacific Standard magazine. Her work has appeared in publications like Cosmopolitan.com, TheAtlantic.com, Bitch Magazine, as well as the anthology The Feminist Utopia Project. Before become a full-time journalist, she worked at the National Institute for Reproductive Health. A Minnesota native, she received her B.A. from Carleton College in 2008. After living in Brooklyn, Oakland, and Atlanta, she is currently based in the Twin Cities.

Maya Dusenbery is an executive director of Feministing and author of the forthcoming book Doing Harm on sexism in medicine.

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