All across rural New Mexico, access to good, competent healthcare has always been a struggle for working people and families. Whether one is looking for an Endocrinologist in Farmington in the Four Corners, or a Dentist that takes Medicaid in Hobbs in the Permian Basin, it is a time-consuming process.

It’s a misconception that all religious community members and faith leaders oppose LGBTQ+ rights because of their deeply held beliefs. This blanket statement simply doesn’t reflect the diversity of faith traditions or places of worship.

In 2023, the long time Otero County hospital was quietly being acquired without community input and little awareness. Knowing the impact to reproductive healthcare access and gender affirming fair plus the need for community to have a voice,

Kandace Littlefoot (Diné) discusses the Hyde Amendment and its impact on access to abortion care within Indigenous communities. “Indigenous people have survived genocide, removal of our children and forced sterilization, among other atrocities…I support abortion access because of my Indigenous matriarchal values and traditions — not in spite of them.”

Esta entrevista fue publicada originalmente en la edición de verano de 2018 del boletín trimestral de ACLU-NM, The Torch.

¿De qué se trataba el caso de Masterpiece Cakeshop?