In Mississippi, two ballot initiatives threaten the health and lives of women across the state, and the disenfranchisement of the largest bloc of voters in the state. A campaign based on a reproductive justice model can defeat both.
Three Atlanta-based women of color organizations say that a billboard campaign in Atlanta lanched by anti-choice organizations, along with so-called “freedom rides” scheduled this summer are “no more than a ploy to turn back the clock on Black women’s right to reproductive freedom.”
Yesterday, SB 529, the so-called “OB/GYN Criminalization and Racial Discrimination Act,” died in the Rules Committee of the Georgia House of Representatives on the last day of Georgia’s legislative session.
I’m at the National Council for Research on Women’s annual conference, live-blogging the Thursday morning panel on reproductive rights.
If we are really entering a new phase of abortion politics, we have to stop selling out poor people to appease opponents of women’s human rights.
Youth leadership, global justice and sex-positivity are just some of the issues that power a broad-based reproductive justice movement envisioned and experienced at the Sistersong Conference.
The SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective's second national conference started yesterday; Eesha Pandit shares highlights from the four-day reproductive justice bonanza.
