What is Reproductive Justice?

PowerPoint by Vanessa Daniel

What is Reproductive Justice?

The current movement for reproductive rights has often lacked the strength to break through the dam of opposition it faces.

Pro-Life efforts are bolstered by anti-LGBT

and anti-immigrant forces – just to name a few.

Historically, Abortion rights has brought women and their allies into the movement.

As has, to some extent, Family Planning.

Millions of youth are entering the movement around Comprehensive Sex Education.

Women are entering the movement, who are impacted by the drug policy and the criminal justice systems.

For immigrant communities, the entry point is around immigrant rights.

Ending violence against women is another entry point for thousands of women.

Plus a growing number of people experiencing the reproductive health impacts of environmental toxins.

This movement is growing and changing.

Reproductive Justice: Framework for an Expanding Movement

Single Issue

Homogenous Leadership

Top down

Insular

Multiple Issues

Diverse Leadership

Grassroots

Inter-Connected

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Reproductive Justice isn’t just a theory…

…it has been essential to some of the most defining victories in the past decade…

• …and have ensured that those victories addressed the needs of those who experience the greatest reproductive health disparities…

Fetal Personhood: Colorado

Parental Notification: CA

…securing comprehensive sex ed in public schools in New Mexico, Chicago and D.C.; winning a ban on the practice of shackling pregnant women in all federal prisons…

…expanding reproductive health care access for Native women…

Stopping environmental pollution that harms the reproductive health of communities.

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