Reproductive Justice includes the right to all options with pregnancy, but it is also so much more than that. RJ encompasses all of our rights -- and particularly those who are most marginalized -- to control and decide about our own sexualities, bodies, genders, reproductive healthcare and other aspects of reproduction, and involves both the individual and systemic changes needed to get us all there.
Reproductive Justice
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- Al Washburn
What's the difference between reproductive rights and reproductive justice? What's "biopower"? How do I defend my community's reproductive autonomy?
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- Caroline Reilly
Legal scholar and reproductive rights expert Carol Sanger talks about barriers to abortion access and supporting pregnant teens.
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- Caroline Reilly
The ruling in the Supreme Court case Whole Women’s Health v. Hellerstedt invalidated the basis that so many, if not all, standing abortion restrictions are founded on, including parental involvement laws.
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- Caroline Reilly
In every state where consent or notification is required for a minor to get an abortion, there's also a judicial bypass option. Here's the history and mechanics of judicial bypass laws.
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- Michelle Kinsey Bruns
I am a volunteer abortion clinic escort. This means I am there to walk with women coming into the abortion clinic. It's usually no more than a minute's walk from their cars to the front door of the clinic. Under normal circumstances, my help would hardly be needed. Except the circumstances outside an abortion clinic are rarely "normal."
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- Audra Williams
Kate Greenaway is the Canadian director of Medical Students for Choice, a group of 7000 medical students across the US and Canada who are working towards improving school curriculums to include reproductive health training, especially abortion training.
