Wade – this decision will have profound short and long-term impacts on millions of Americans across the country. The Nonprofit Association of Oregon believes in the right to healthcare for all Oregonians, especially for those that cannot afford access. Today, the Supreme Court threw out decades of legal precedent and “settled law” by overturning the 1973 ruling Roe v. We are all struggling with not only the broader challenges I’ve mentioned, but also the “tyranny of the urgent” each day: staff turnover and shortages rising costs of goods and services disrupted supply chains and fickle funding mechanisms.
I’ve been on calls with a few people that could barely contain their emotions. We’ve been doing focus-groups, listening sessions, and advisory group meetings (THANK YOU to all that are participating!) and we are hearing from so many nonprofit leaders just how hard it feels right now. I have to admit, there are times where it all really feels like too much. Even the protection of the very air we breathe and ground we walk on is being stripped away for short-term profit-making margins. Instead, the beginning of this summer has only laid bare the deep divides in our country the obviously broken system which systemically discriminates against so many and provides for the rule over the many by the very few and a sick obsession with allowing murder to be committed again and again with no substantive measures to check them. I know that we all need that time for rest, reflection and recovery – both as a community of people that do public good and as individuals. After all the difficulties and sacrifices we collectively experienced through COVID (which is still clinging on), I felt like this summer would be a time where things would begin to get back to normal. There is no easy way to say this, so I’ll just say it: it has been a pretty terrible start to the summer of 2022.
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