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5 Black women on the frontlines of reproductive rights


Reproductive Justice: A Reading List - Black Women Radicals

In 1994, a group of Black women formed the group, “Women of African Descent for Reproductive Justice” at a meeting in Chicago, Illinois, ...

Women of color want reproductive justice, not just abortion rights

This large coalition of national and community organizations includes SisterSong, Black Women's Health Imperative, California Latinas for ...

Women of Color Speak Out Against the Whitewashing of ... - ELLE

Black, Indigenous, and Latinx women are on the frontlines of the intersectional reproductive justice movement. Here, they share their ...

Roe v Wade ruling disproportionately hurts Black women, experts say

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn a constitutional right to an abortion is expected to have a disproportionate impact on Black ...

Women of Color and the Struggle for Reproductive Justice - VAWnet

unconcerned with poverty and lack of access to health care, particularly reproductive health care, in the African-. American community.44. Black Women and the ...

Center for Reproductive Rights

The Center for Reproductive Rights uses the power of law to advance reproductive rights as fundamental human rights around the world.

Abortion bans cause outsized harm for people of color

That bias affects reproductive health care, where Black women who report pelvic pain and other symptoms are less likely than White women to ...

Op Ed: Reproductive Justice is Black History: How Twelve Black ...

Our brothers and sisters have always been at the frontlines of movements, from civil rights to women's rights to Black Lives Matter and many ...

Abortion and Women of Color: The Bigger Picture

This much is true: In the United States, the abortion rate for black women is almost five times that for white women. Antiabortion activists ...

The Urgency for Reproductive Freedom: From Slavery to the New ...

Jackson Women's Health Organization, a case that involves a Mississippi abortion ban at 15 weeks of pregnancy. If the Supreme Court allows ...

What are the Implications of the Dobbs Ruling for Racial Disparities?

15%), Black (14% vs. 7%), and Asian (10% vs. 5%) women, and nearly three times higher for NHPI women (29% vs. 10%).

Black Women's Maternal Health

Black women and birthing people deserve to receive comprehensive, high-quality, culturally centered, and respectful whole-person health care that meets their ...

Extreme Abortion Bans Continue a Cruel Legacy of Controlling and ...

There is a history of Black women in America bearing the brunt of state-sanctioned control and commodification of their bodies. From forced ...

The State of Black Women & Reproductive Justice

Hallenstadt, reaffirmed a woman's right to abortion care; and Black Lives Matter started a youth-led movement to confront the over-policing of ...

Reproductive Rights, Reproductive Justice: Redefining Challenges ...

Before attending the ICPD, a group of black women in Chicago coined the term reproductive justice, defined as the complete physical, mental, spiritual, ...

Racism, Sexism, and the Crisis of Black Women's Health | The Brink

BU's Black Women's Health Study aims to understand the underlying causes of poor health among Black women and reduce long-standing racial ...

Women on the Frontlines - Cornell Law Review

Second, Black women's identities are sub- sumed under race and not distinguished by race and sex. Third, Breonna Taylor's death indicates that despite her value.

In the wake of Roe, a resurgent fight for reproductive justice

SisterLove, a Black women's sexual health organization out of Georgia, is dispensing reproductive rights information alongside condoms at sports ...

In Florida, these Black women see the fight for abortion access as ...

The working group, known as Black in Repro, includes doulas, midwives, public health professionals, medical practitioners and other Black women ...

Women in WWI | National WWI Museum and Memorial

- Alice Dunbar Nelson, American Poet and Civil Rights Activist, on African American women's efforts during the war, 1918. But even women in more traditional ...