Improved BART poster

The facts from this poster came from the NARAL website:

State and Federal Legislation
In 1973, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in the landmark case of Roe v. Wade. In doing so, the Court recognized, for the first time, that the decision whether or not to terminate a pregnancy should reside with the woman, not politicians or the government. And yet more than 30 years later, the promise of Roe remains unfulfilled.

Today, opponents of choice have tremendous power. They sit in county courthouses and on hospital boards. They run medical schools. They write state laws. They govern statehouses. And they hold the balance of power in the United States Congress and the White House.

Federally, Congress has banned access to abortion for virtually every woman who depends on the federal government for her health care, including Medicaid recipients, women in the military and military dependents stationed overseas, women in federal prisons, Native American women, federal employees, and even Peace Corps volunteers. Anti-choice lawmakers have used the appropriations process to restrict access to reproductive health care, here and abroad, at virtually every turn.