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Black Motherhood: An Inescapable Disparity

Published: July 30, 2020

A study comparing infants of college-educated mothers found that rates of infant mortality and low birthweight were twice as high for Black infants compared to white infants. Additionally, Black infants were three times as likely to die from causes attributable to perinatal events. A different study observed similar disparities even when controlling for socioeconomic status. […]

"Autonomy: in my body / person / health" by Fernando Martí courtesy of JustSeeds

Reproductive Health and Its Racist Origins

Published: July 28, 2020

CW: nonconsensual experimentation, exploitation, & sexual abuse of enslaved people; forced sterilization J. Marion Sims, commonly referred to as the “father of modern gynecology,” owned slaves. Not only did he enslave people, but the bodies of those he enslaved were also the bodies that he experimented on–without anesthesia. One Black woman, Anarcha, was operated on […]

"We Will Confront State-Sanctioned White Supremacy and Racism #OnManySides" by Dylan A.T. Miner courtesy of JustSeeds

The Black Maternal Mortality Rate: A Fatal Side Effect of Racism

Published: July 21, 2020

Black women in America are four times times more likely to die from pregnancy or childbirth than white women. In New York City, this number rises to twelve. Not only are Black mothers more likely to experience increased rates of preterm delivery, infertility, and maternal mortality, but Black infants are twice as likely to die […]

Change Is Happening–Just Look at Virginia.

Published: April 17, 2020

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam certainly had a busy weekend last week. Virginia undeniably has a history of oppressive legislation, particularly in regards to race relations, gun control, and reproductive rights and access. I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the governor’s own less-than-palatable past, which is putting it mildly: he’s not exactly the poster […]

States are Abusing the Coronavirus Pandemic to Restrict Reproductive Justice

Published: April 9, 2020

Sexual and reproductive health care has long been a contentious topic throughout the United States. Placing much of the world on pause, the recent global COVID-19 outbreak has unfortunately allowed for assaults on reproductive rights and health to accelerate. The COVID-19 public health concerns have been a convenient pretense for anti-choice states to push unconstitutional […]

Lies I Was Told at a Fake Clinic

Published: April 7, 2020

Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs), also known as fake clinics, are a threat to all vulnerable individuals who can become pregnant, and especially young and low-income people. CPCs use racist rhetoric directed at Black and Latinx populations, in which they tell patients abortion is genocide and are meant to limit the browning of America, and other […]

The 13 States Where You Can Access Abortion By Mail

Published: April 3, 2020

While anti-choice governors and attorneys general have taken advantage of the widespread sense of urgency to contain the COVID-19 pandemic to yet again limit abortion access, abortion advocates have pushed for telemedicine prescriptions for mifepristone and misoprostol, the drugs commonly used together in medical abortions. Allowing physicians to prescribe these medications via telemedicine would save […]

Abortion Care IS Essential Healthcare

Published: April 2, 2020

As cases of the Coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, continue to rage on throughout most of the United States, so are anti-abortion officials chomping-at-the-bit to use this global crisis, state’s emergency policies, and the presence of group-fear to put an end to safe and legal abortion access.

Fake Clinics Lie in the Name of God

Published: March 25, 2020

I walked into a fake clinic in Arbutus, Maryland on a late Friday afternoon with a vile of urine (that was not mine) in my purse that would indicate I was pregnant. There were children, children’s toys, and a rack of baby clothing of various sizes in the waiting room. This fake clinic is a […]

Safe and Legal Abortion Access Should Not Depend on Your Zip Code

Published: March 4, 2020

Today the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments for June Medical Services v. Russo to analyze the unconstitutionality of Louisiana’s admitting privileges law. Since 2001, anti-abortion politicians have pushed nearly 450 restrictive laws through legislatures that range from outright bans to medically unnecessary regulations, and humiliating hoops to clinic shutdowns. The issue of states creating […]