Jill Adams quoted by Mother Jones, Sept. 30, 2016

“To end Hyde but to keep McRae in place is to allow public insurance for abortion to float on the political wind,” says Jill E. Adams. … That’s why Adams and CRRJ have focused their attention on overturning McRae. “The dream is for the court to say, ‘The nature of the abortion right compels the state to furnish the resources necessary to ensure equal access by all people,'” Adams says, because it would effectively invalidate public funding bans.

Jill Adams quoted by Salon, August 28, 2016

The reforms “focused significant attention on family formation in its stated goals and underlying motivations — valorizing marriage, stigmatizing ‘out-of-wedlock birth,’ and demonizing poor, unmarried mothers (of color) as the source of many social ills.”

Jill Adams quoted in The Washington Post, July 22, 2016

Adams said she was glad the appeals court overturned Patel’s feticide conviction, but that it was still worrisome that she faced a felony neglect conviction. Adams called the prosecution a misuse of the criminal justice system. “No person in Purvi Patel’s position should have to feel threat of arrest or jail for ending their own pregnancy,” she said. “That is not what these laws were put in place to do.”

Jill Adams interviewed by Mother Jones, July 22, 2016

“The SIA Legal Team is pleased the court recognized that feticide laws are intended to protect, not prosecute, pregnant women,” she wrote in an email. “Women don’t need to be stigmatized and sentenced; instead, they need safe, affordable access to provider-directed and self-directed health care.”

Jill Adams quoted by Geo TV, May 25, 2016

“This is a trend we only anticipate growing in light of many factors, including this spate of state-level provisions on access that are resulting in clinic closures,” said Jill Adams.

Jill Adams quoted by Associated Press, April 15, 2016

“There will always be people who need to do this for themselves, and they deserve to have the resources and information so they can do so safely and effectively, free from the threat of arrest,” said Jill Adams.

Jill Adams writes for American Constitution Society Blog, March 4, 2016

Justice Breyer correctly points out that excessive restrictions on abortion provision limit clinic access and increase the necessity for self-administered abortion care. Global data have consistently demonstrated that highly restrictive laws do not reduce the abortion rate, they simply relocate the site of abortion care from the hospital to the home.

Jill Adams quoted on Revelist, Feb. 4, 2016

“Common sense and compassion would dictate that governments ensure access to contraception and abortion in light of such a public health crisis as the Zika virus. Meaningful access would require the lifting of criminal bans and restrictions on abortion provision, as well as public education campaigns and the establishment of community clinics in rural and urban areas with fully funded reproductive health care.”

Jill Adams interviewed for WFYI, Oct. 7, 2015

“This will have the compound effects of exacerbating poverty, increasing surveillance of all pregnant people, and ensnaring in the criminal justice system those suffering from unintended pregnancy loss–all of which will disproportionately harm immigrants, people of color, and low-income communities.”

Jill Adams quoted in Fusion, June 19, 2015

But Jill Adams, director of the Berkeley Center, says the campaign has never had this much momentum, and will force the hand of Gov. Jerry Brown, who stripped out funds for a repeal from the state’s budget earlier this year. “You can’t hide,” she said. “You’re going to have a bill on your desk.”