North Carolina Senate Legislative Building 16 West Jones Street Raleigh, NC 27601 July 28, 2025 To the Members of the North Carolina State Senate, On behalf of the Woodhull Freedom Foundation, I write to you and your colleagues in the…
Criminalization of sex work is often falsely believed to improve societal health, minimize sex trafficking, and keep sex workers safe. However, criminalization worsens these outcomes by driving both sex workers and trafficking victims underground, where they experience more violence, fewer social services, and less access to adequate healthcare. Decriminalization would be far more effective at ensuring sex workers' physical safety, economic stability, and physical and mental health.
Emboldened by President Trump’s election, Senator Dusty Deevers, an ultra-conservative abortion abolitionist, pastor, and Oklahoma State Senator, ignores the separation between church and state, Constitutional rights, and human rights in two slates of proposed bills. The first slate of eight…
Abortion Access in the United States has been severely restricted since the Supreme Court Decision, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, in June 2022. Some states rushed to totally ban abortion and related reproductive healthcare, while others protected it in their…