Groups say Planned Parenthood's possible abortion ballot initiative effort in Ohio slights Black women from the city of Cleveland, community activists: Women's March Cleveland, Black activists say Black Cleveland women were left out of discussions on abortion ballot initiative in Ohio by groups like Planned-Parenthood out of Columbus and Pro Choice Ohio that routinely subordinate grassroots activists and Black women and other women of color...By clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader
Photo by photographer David Petkiewicz of Cleveland.com and the Cleveland Plain Dealer Newspaper (Note: Women's March Cleveland has led every major women's march in Cleveland since 2017, including 2,500 people at Market Square Park for a reproductive rights march on Oct 2, 2021, one of several marches in cities nationwide that day The above picture is of the Oct 2, 2021 march Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywrayco lemanonlinenewsblog.com Staff article CLEVELAND, Ohio-Women's March Cleveland and several other Black led Cleveland activist groups are complaining that a newly formed coalition of women's groups in Ohio dubbed Ohioans for Reproductive Freedom that is being led by Planned Parenthood Ohio and Pro Choice Ohio that is pursuing a statewide ballot initiative for the November 2023 ballot to seek to enshrine the legal right to an abortion in the Ohio Constitution does not include grassroots activist groups of Ohio and any Black led women's groups of Cleve