Cindy Cooper is an award-winning journalist and playwright. She is the managing editor of On The Issues Magazine. Her articles have appeared in Women’s eNews, Ms., Glamour, Marie Claire, The Nation, In These Times; her plays have been performed at hundreds of venues in the U.S., Canada and Europe. Formerly the communications director at the Center for Reproductive Rights, she is the founder and creator of Words of Choice, a pro-choice theater and arts organization. She leads Creativity Workshops and has a blog on creativity and reproductive rights at http://wordsofchoice.blogspot.com. She lives in New York City.
Loretta J. Ross is national coordinator of SisterSong Reproductive Justice Collective in Atlanta. So why is her voice largely missing in media reports about “black genocide” billboards in her own backyard?
In the wake of the crushing defeat of the South Dakota and Colorado ballot measures to ban abortion, anti-choice activists can no longer say that the “people haven’t spoken” on the right to abortion.
During a summer tribute, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg reflected on the state of reproductive freedom today.
Artistic investigations of reproductive rights open new doors, too rarely explored in the battle over policy.
