The film reveals what’s possible when families can access supportive policies. Olympic champion Allyson Felix understands this issue intimately.
Read MoreWhy Black People Can’t Earn Our Way Out of Racism in Maternal Care: A Q&A With Khiara Bridges
In her new book, Bridges found that healthcare provided through private markets leaves more room for discrimination and unequal care to take root than in a public program like Medicaid.
Read MoreWe Must Raise Our Voices Against the Attacks on Trans Care
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The Gender Liberation Movement’s Raquel Willis says trans youth “are our future” and that new HHS rules amount to a national ban on gender-affirming care for young people.
Read MoreWhy We Need Kin: A Conversation With Sophie Lucido Johnson
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The author and cartoonist explains why we should dismantle the nuclear family and build something bigger.
Read MoreIrin Carmon on How the United States Has Made Pregnancy Unbearable
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As I finished reading a new book about the perils of pregnancy in the United States, ProPublica published a story identifying another victim of our broken healthcare system: Tierra Walker. The 37-year-old Texas mother had asked her doctor, “Wouldn’t you think it would be better for me to not have the baby?” after her early pregnancy symptoms included “unexplained seizures” and “soaring blood pressure,” ProPublica reported. But no one would help her.
Read MoreA Guide to the Everyday Acts That Can Gum Up the Fascist Machine
When the Nazis invaded and occupied Denmark in 1940, the Danes faced a choice: obey or resist. In an article in The Nation earlier this month, Sarah Sophie Flicker details the Danes’ everyday acts of disobedience in the face of the fascist regime.
Read More“We Never Assumed Anything”: A Lifetime of Providing Abortion Care
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Five years ago, when Curtis Boyd, MD, and Glenna Halvorson-Boyd, PhD, RN, set out to write a book about their lives and 50-year-career providing abortion care in Texas and New Mexico, Roe was still the law of the land. But their book, which was published in September, made its debut two years after that landmark case was overturned.
Read MoreHow Love Fuels Resistance: Parenting for Liberation
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For most parents, our children’s safety is at the root of every decision we make. But policing, mass incarceration, and the surveillance and criminalization of poor communities and Black and brown people can make us feel powerless in keeping our children safe, no matter what decisions we make about our life or our children’s lives. Movement organizers who are parents feel this most acutely.
Read MoreWant to Solve the Maternal Health Care Crisis? Listen to Black Birth Workers
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April Valentine arrived at Centinela Hospital in Inglewood, Calif., on January 9 to give birth. Valentine, 31, had selected Centinela because she would be under the care of a Black woman physician. In the weeks leading up to her delivery, she had written on an affirmation board messages like “I will not have any complications” and “I will have a healthy baby girl,” The LAist reported in February. But she died the day after giving birth, via an emergency C-section. She never got the chance to meet her daughter.
Read MoreSelf-Managed Abortion May Become More Important Than Ever
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In the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling, the conservative justices rejected the idea that it is a fundamental human right for women to have agency over their own bodies and ruled that state lawmakers can exert control over part of what is in fact a spectrum of reproductive health care that all people who can become pregnant will likely need to some degree.
Read MoreHow Much Longer Can We Keep Doing This Without a Vaccine?
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All parents are struggling during the pandemic, but those with kids too young to be vaccinated are barely holding on.
Read MoreMy Abortion Made Motherhood Possible
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This is something worth celebrating—it’s also reproductive justice, actualized.
Read MoreCorrecting the Record on Abortion During COVID-19: A Q&A With Dr. Erin King
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"You can’t wait one week, two weeks, five weeks. You’ve got to do it right then. It’s got to be accessible."
Read MoreWhat It’s Like to Be an Abortion Care Provider in the South During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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"We are health-care providers; we’re not being seen or treated as health-care providers by our legislators, by people in these positions of power. And yet we’re putting ourselves at the same risk as people are in hospitals."
Read MoreA Q&A With Jessica González-Rojas on Her 13 Years at the National Latina Institute
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In this wide-ranging interview, González-Rojas reflects on the gains of the reproductive justice movement and NLIRH she’s witnessed, the challenges of today, and what gives her hope about the next chapter of her life.
Read MoreState Legislators Are Finally Doing Something About the Black Maternal Health Crisis
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State lawmakers have introduced more than 80 bills this session to address the disparity in Black maternal and infant mortality rates.
Read MoreGet to Know the People Who Make Abortion Care Possible
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There are myriad paths to reproductive health, rights, and justice work. For AJ Haynes, it involved “margaritas and a cover band, as any good story should.”
Read More‘No Choice’: Pop-Up Travel Agency Brings Attention to Antiquated New York Abortion Law
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The No Choice Travel Agency that popped up in lower Manhattan over the weekend had all the trappings of a typical trip bureau, with one major caveat: Travelers were limited to three destinations.
Read MoreIn ‘Unapologetic,’ Charlene Carruthers Offers Young Black Organizers Inspiration, Purpose, and Strength
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One of Charlene Carruthers’ earliest memories about power comes from her visits with her mother to the public aid office in Chicago for food stamps or cash assistance.
Read MoreReimagining Black Mamahood in an Unjust Society
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One could argue that parenting, for Black women, is an act of political warfare. Women of color-led organizations have been working for decades to disrupt the toxic narrative around Black motherhood, a critical step toward dismantling the white supremacy stronghold—but it remains a steep hill to climb.
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