Advocacy
Everything was personal. The way the world worked was personal. - Laurie Stone
I co-authored this landmark report on anti-abortion "crisis pregnancy centers" (CPCs) for Women's Law Project with Jenifer McKenna in collaboration with The Alliance.
This report has been covered or cited by New York Times, Buzzfeed, ABC Action News, Jezebel, Salon, LA Times, and more.
Designed to Deceive has been:
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cited in consumer alerts issued by CA AG Rob Bonta and MN AG Keith Ellison.
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cited in the federal Stop Anti-Abortion Disinformation (SAD) Act, which would ban false advertising related to abortion services
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submitted as testimony in Revisiting the Implications of the FACE Act, a hearing hosted by the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government in the U.S. House.
Find the report here.
Just 13 days after Dobbs, Pennsylvania’s anti-abortion lawmakers convened in the middle of the night to devise a plan to advance a constitutional amendment that would, if implemented, strip our reproductive autonomy rights out of the Pennsylvania Constitution and pave the way to a full abortion ban in Pennsylvania.
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Currently, the word “sex” appears in the Constitution once, in the 19th Amendment, the guarantee of women’s right to vote, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. Yet full citizenship and participation in society begins, not ends, with casting a ballot.
In an era where journalism hasn’t fully matured out of quaint, outdated notions of objectivity that prioritizes framing controversy over evidence-based explanation, misuse of the word “activist” can reveal the most insidious journalistic bias of all: Journalism that elevates and defends the status quo by systematically denigrating anyone challenging it.
Co-authored with Jenifer McKenna for Women's Law Project & The Alliance, this brief warns the contemporary CPC industry is a nationwide, government-funded, digitally sophisticated network that targets low-income pregnant people who may or may not be considering abortion, collects their sensitive medical and personal information, and feeds it to anti-abortion organizations that store big data without clear privacy protections.
Tara joins the weekly podcast from Abortion Access Front. Hosted by Lizz Winstead (The Daily Show co-creator, comedian, and founder of Abortion Access Front ) and Moji Alawode-El (writer, activist, marketing guru Abortion Access Front). These hilarious and brilliant experts on all things abortion, break down the weekly news from patriarchy’s evil trilogy of misogyny, white supremacy, and anti-abortion extremism. They make sense of all the madness, by digging in hard with policy experts, leaders in the reproductive health, rights, and justice movements, and the activists working on the ground.
And because it’s a podcast from The Daily Show co-creator, we have the best comedians and musicians poppin’ in to pop off, plus plenty of scathing commentary and satirical sketches that put all these sexist ass clowns on blast.
Tara joins the weekly podcast from Abortion Access Front. Hosted by Lizz Winstead (The Daily Show co-creator, comedian, and founder of Abortion Access Front ) and Moji Alawode-El (writer, activist, marketing guru Abortion Access Front). These hilarious and brilliant experts on all things abortion, break down the weekly news from patriarchy’s evil trilogy of misogyny, white supremacy, and anti-abortion extremism. They make sense of all the madness, by digging in hard with policy experts, leaders in the reproductive health, rights, and justice movements, and the activists working on the ground.