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It’s been one year since the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade. What effect has it had on reproductive justice here in Australia?| ABC listen
Earlier this month the parliament in Rwanda lowered the legal age for accessing reproductive health care from 18 to 15 years old. The post Rwanda has expanded young people’s access to contraception appeared first on Safe Abortion Action Fund.| Safe Abortion Action Fund
Expanded Shield Act Strengthens Legal Protections for Patients and Providers BOSTON – Today, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Co-Chair of the Reproductive... The post Pressley Applauds Passage of Updated Shield Act, Right to Abortion and Gender-Affirming Care in Massachusetts appeared first on Ayanna Pressley.| Ayanna Pressley
As faithful people and healers, it is against the doctor’s faith to watch a patient suffer when they can intervene. Read more via Scalawag: South Carolina providers push back against faith-based assaults on abortion care .| Scalawag
It’s been one year since the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade. What effect has it had on reproductive justice here in Australia?| ABC listen
Abortion in a world where reproductive justice is realized means allowing each person full autonomy over their pregnancy decision.| YES! Magazine
This form of care can be hard to access for those who have a uterus in a medical system built for cis women having babies.| YES! Magazine
A simple, low-cost method is helping impoverished women identify abnormal cervical cells and prevent premature cancer deaths.| YES! Magazine
Wisconsin’s Supreme Court has struck down one of the country’s oldest abortion bans, a major win for reproductive rights in a state where access has been under legal threat for years. In a 4–3 decision released July 2, the court’s liberal majority ruled that the 1849 statute banning nearly all abortions is no longer enforceable. […]| Feminist Majority Foundation
Medina v. Planned Parenthood Ruling Will Rob Patients of their Lives, Put Essential Healthcare Further Out of Reach for Millions...| Ayanna Pressley
In response to today’s Supreme Court’s ruling on Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, In Our Own Voice President and CEO Dr. Regina Davis Moss issued the following statement:| In Our Own Voice - National Black Women's Reproductive Justice Agenda
The suspect's motives remain unclear, but "there clearly was some through line with abortion," Sen. Amy Klobuchar said Sunday.| Mother Jones
Pregnancy Justice's legal director, Karen Thompson, warns: "We are in dangerous territory. This is our reality now."| Mother Jones
In the two years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, journalists have been working tirelessly to show how continued efforts to restrict abortion impact the lives of women and pregnant people. We regularly hear horrifying stories, like that of a Tennessee woman whose state forced her to carry a high-risk pregnancy even though […] The post Women’s everyday experiences must be at the center of abortion stories appeared first on Berkeley Media Studies Group.| Berkeley Media Studies Group
Proposed Medicaid Cuts Would Worsen Maternal Health Outcomes, Restrict Access to Essential Care Like Prenatal Care, Contraception, and Cancer Screenings...| Ayanna Pressley
While some have dismissed the EO’s definitions as biologically incoherent—given that early fetal development renders all genitalia phenotypically similar (and female)—this EO, and the strategic assault it is a core component of, are not clumsily or carelessly written. Read more via Scalawag: Refining Fascism: Fetal Personhood, Transphobia, & AntiBlackness.| Scalawag
NATIONWIDE — In response to the Trump administration dismissing the Idaho emergency abortion lawsuit and backing South Carolina’s case to block Medicaid funding for medical services at Planned Parenthood, Dr. Regina Davis Moss, President and CEO of In Our Own Voice and In Our Own Voice Action Fund, released the below statement: “The Trump administration… The post In Our Own Voice Responds to the Trump Administration’s Latest Attacks on Abortion first appeared on In Our Own Voice.| In Our Own Voice
NATIONWIDE — In response to President Trump’s Joint Address to Congress, Dr. Regina Davis Moss, President and CEO of In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda and In Our Own Voice Action Fund issued the following statement: “Yesterday evening, President Trump addressed the nation to brag about the chaos and cruelty that| In Our Own Voice - National Black Women's Reproductive Justice Agenda
In Our Own Voice Honors Rep. Barbara Lee with the Inaugural Reproductive Justice Champion Award| In Our Own Voice
NATIONWIDE — In response to last night’s election results, In Our Own Voice President and CEO Regina Davis Moss issued the below statement: “Make no mistake, last night’s election results are nothing short of deeply frightening for everyone who values our democracy, our fundamental human rights, and the future of our country. We know that…| In Our Own Voice
NATIONWIDE — Today, one week after a lower court struck down Georgia’s six-week abortion ban, the state’s Supreme Court has reinstated it. Also today, the Supreme Court upheld an order that allows the state of Texas to continue barring emergency abortion care – blocking federal enforcement of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA).…| In Our Own Voice
NATIONWIDE — Today, a Fulton County, GA Superior Court Judge issued a ruling saying the state can no longer enforce its 6-week abortion ban. In response, Dr. Regina Davis Moss, President and CEO of In Our Own Voice, released the following statement: “This ruling is a significant development for Reproductive Justice–and especially for Black people| In Our Own Voice - National Black Women's Reproductive Justice Agenda
Following the news of Amber Nicole Thurman, today ProPublica reported on the death of Candi Miller, a second Black woman who was also killed as a result of Georgia’s six-week abortion ban. In response, Dr. Regina Davis Moss, President and CEO of In Our Own Voice, released the following statement...| In Our Own Voice - National Black Women's Reproductive Justice Agenda
Following ProPublica’s investigation about the devastating and preventable death of Amber Nicole Thurman as a result of Georgia’s six-week abortion ban, In Our Own Voice President and CEO Regina Davis Moss released the below statement...| In Our Own Voice - National Black Women's Reproductive Justice Agenda
I am addressing this paper to other white temporarily-able-bodied settler feminists interested in moving, not just toward a queer (queerer?) horizon, but toward a nonbinary liberatory futurity as a collective political aspiration (not an identitarian goal of self-actualization). In this paper, I consider how we might mobilize the nonbinary as a freedom practice, a practice building toward a future where we are all free. Imagining and creating a liberatory inclusive future necessarily require...| Lateral
“There are deep lessons here about comradery,” says author Angela Hume.| Truthout
Today, the Supreme Court decided to dismiss Idaho and Moyle, et al. v. United States, allowing federal emergency abortion care protections to supersede Idaho’s abortion ban while the case proceeds in lower courts. In response, Dr. Regina Davis Moss, President and CEO of In Our Own Voice, released the following statement: “Black women are almost| In Our Own Voice - National Black Women's Reproductive Justice Agenda
Dr. Regina Davis Moss, President and CEO of In Our Own Voice, released the following statement marking the second anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade and eliminated the federal right to abortion: “Barriers to accessing abortion care for Black women, girls and| In Our Own Voice - National Black Women's Reproductive Justice Agenda
