Can't wait to read this new paper on endometrial cancer (EC) as a #ReproJustice issue. Dr.
Kemi M. Doll places EC "among the discursive arguments that reproductive justice makes in the interconnectedness of fertility, reproductive health, parenthood, and, ultimately, life." https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37590979/

The National Partnership for Women & Families is hiring for a new position:

"Given the significant ways in reproductive health and privacy now intersect in a post-Roe world, we are looking to build out our policy expertise in this area. We’re hoping to hire someone with strong health/data privacy expertise and an understanding of how those issues apply in the context of access to reproductive health care."
https://nationalpartnership.org/about-us/join-our-team/policy-analyst-reproductive-health-rights/

#jobs #abortion #reprojustice

#Justice #Liberation #Liberalism #Anarchism #SocialEcology #Ethics #Patriarchy #Feminism #Intersectionality #Freedom #God #PowerToThePeople #ReproJustice #DisabilityJustice #TransformativeJustice #DisabilityLiberation #ACAB #West #Histodon

A shift from liberal thinking to anarchist thinking necessarily involves a shift from thinking about justice to thinking about liberation.

Justice erases the conditions of what are and what could be, and is concerned only with what the rules say must be. It moralizes our freedom away. It is administered by power, while it pretends that power does not exist. It makes us passionately wish harm upon other human beings in retribution, where healing and transformation could have been options. It makes us forget that we are oppressed, because we are equal on paper.

Liberation is material, intersectional, systemic, and dialectical. It is praxis. It is revolutionary. It cherishes the diverse fecundity of nature, and our part of that as stewards. It acknowledges and dismantles hierarchical power structures, and builds horizontal ones. It does not pretend that any theory is more real than reality itself.

Justice is rigid, where liberation is fluid. Anarchists are less concerned with what is moral, and more concerned with what is conducive to freedom.

In The Ecology of Freedom, at the end of Chapter 6 (Justice: Equal and Exact), Murray Bookchin describes how liberalism became the embodiment of justice. As the patriarchal state came to dominate Western societies, it produced various ideologies to justify its inherent hierarchy. The father figure, whether literal, king, or God, was made out to be a wise maker of justice in order to justify his authority. The individual emerges as a political construct, to divest from the conditions of society and pursue individual enrichment above all--liberal justice is about enabling that, as the ideological wing of capitalism. Under the cosmopolitanism of the Hellenistic Mediterranean, then the Heavenly City of Christianity, then the law of liberalism, people from all ranks of hierarchy were declared equal, sharing in a status of inequality of equals, and discouraged from challenging or even acknowledging the differences in power that actually existed. Liberal justice is rooted not in engaging fully and dialectically with the real world, but in calculating maximum pleasure for maximum number of people, as if we could do so separately from our own setting in which the calculation is being done, and with full understanding of everyone's possible experiences.

Liberalism remains the embodiment of justice in the West. Still, we find the language of justice in many movements that go beyond "rights", and are often doing great work even if not specifically anarchist. Disability justice, transformative justice, and reproductive justice come to mind. The concept of "justice" being invoked here is clearly different from the liberal concept. We can build on the enormous success and potential of these movements by enacting a anarchist interpretations based in liberation.

Catholic hospitals are really going all in on 'forcing women to get pregnant against their will.'

#BirthJustice
#ReproJustice
#WomensReproHealth
#Abortion #BirthControl

https://coloradosun.com/2023/01/31/durango-hospital-tubal-ligations/

Amid the would-be 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Rutgers University Press (RUP) made a collection of eBooks about abortion and reproductive health/rights/justice FREE to download until the end of January 2023. Thank you, RUP! #FreeBooks #RoevWade #ReproJustice https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/thematic/dobbs/list

“‘I don’t want to die,’ Aminah Williams, one of the first of the group to be certified as a #doula, recalled more than one Black expectant mother telling her.

‘That shouldn’t be the thing that comes to Black women’s minds,’ Ms. Williams said. ‘And it breaks my heart that it is.’”

Great coverage of a doula program in St. Louis that is tackling the U.S. Black #maternalhealth crisis:

#reprojustice #maternalmortality

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/18/us/doula-black-women.html?campaign_id=57&emc=edit_ne_20230118&instance_id=83039&nl=evening-briefing&regi_id=13652993&segment_id=122856&te=1&user_id=d6379196bbea4b7ab5522e7c1748cdf8

“‘I don’t want to die,’ Aminah Williams, one of the first of the group to be certified as a #doula, recalled more than one Black expectant mother telling her.

‘That shouldn’t be the thing that comes to Black women’s minds,’ Ms. Williams said. ‘And it breaks my heart that it is.’”

Great coverage of a doula program in St. Louis:
#reprojustice #maternalhealth

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/18/us/doula-black-women.html?campaign_id=57&emc=edit_ne_20230118&instance_id=83039&nl=evening-briefing&regi_id=13652993&segment_id=122856&te=1&user_id=d6379196bbea4b7ab5522e7c1748cdf8

🧵 New study finds libertarians tend to support reproductive autonomy for men but not for women. « The study, published in Political Psychology, found that libertarianism was associated with both opposition to women’s right to an #abortion and support for men’s right to withdraw financial support for a child when women refuse to terminate the pregnancy. » https://www.psypost.org/2023/01/new-study-finds-libertarians-tend-to-support-reproductive-autonomy-for-men-but-not-for-women-64912 #ReproJustice

The South Carolina Supreme Court Thursday ruled that the state’s six week abortion ban is unconstitutional and antithetical to the right to privacy. The 3-2 decision came after almost two years after Republican Governor Henry McMaster signed the provision into law February 2021. https://www.jurist.org/news/2023/01/south-carolina-supreme-court-declares-six-week-abortion-ban-unconstitutional/ #ReproJustice #Abortion

The cost of pregnancy care is far higher than the (artificially inflated and belaboured) cost of abortion care.

Could you imagine if a state required pre-auth for pregnancy care?

"Exceptions" don't increase rights, liberty, or justice. "Exceptions" exist to assert control.

#NoExceptions #AbortionIsHealthcare #abortionAccess #LiberateAbortion #ReproductiveJustice #ReproJustice #montana

https://helenair.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/state-wants-pre-authorization-more-proof-of-medical-necessity-for-medicaid-covered-abortions/article_a38a70f4-4ab7-5daf-9f86-245ef0a78fcf.html

There is much to learn about what to anticipate in #PostRoe US from the experience of vets who found themselves unexpectedly carrying unwanted pregnancy while active duty. Everything from access to privacy concerns to intimidation culture (and more). This is an equally important story. 2/2

#Dobbs #abortion #abortionAccess #AbortionIsHealthcare #ReproRights #ReproJustice #WomenVets

Since the #Dobbs decision there's been much made of its impact on folks in the #military.

https://msmagazine.com/2022/12/19/dobbs-military-women-abortion/

Except, much of the story isn't new at all. I reached out to many journalists to share my personal story, never intending to minimize the impacts (without a clinic nearby, things would have been dramatically worse)—but needing an #abortion in the military has always been a major obstacle. 1/

#PostRoe #abortionAccess #AbortionIsHealthcare #ReproRights #ReproJustice #WomenVets

Fake clinics not only undermine health outcomes and spread disinformation about #abortion, they also violate pregnant people's privacy and compromise their safety. And they benefit from federal and state dollars. Fake clinics are not harmless decoys, they are dangerous propaganda mills that provide fringe groups (and state actors) with surveillance intel.
https://jezebel.com/she-went-undercover-to-a-crisis-pregnancy-center-they-1849900424
#ExposeFakeClinics #ReproJustice #ReproductiveJustice #ReproRights #ReproductiveRights #AbortionIsHealthcare

To break this bill down: the bill bans any "instrument, medicine, drug, or any other substance, device, or means" to terminate a pregnancy, defined simply as the presence of hCG. That's it. It goes on to explicitly state that this applies to minors. And so much for the threshold of viability, here "unborn child" is defined at conception. #Abortion #AbortionRights #ReproJustice #RoeVsWade #HumanRights #Fascism

For the record: I have never—not for a moment, not even once—regretted my #abortion in 20 years since I had it.

Anyone who knows me well tell you I regularly cite it as the single best, most responsible decision I've ever made. I am grateful for it on a daily basis.

I love abortion. I'm an #AbortionFund sustainer. I hope you'll consider it, too.
https://abortionfunds.org/
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#AbortionIsHealthcare #SayAbortion #AbortionSanta #NNAF #AbortionFunds #ReproJustice

For the record: I have never—not for a moment, not even once—regretted my #abortion in 20 years since I had it.

Anyone who knows me well tell you I regularly cite it as the single best, most responsible decision I've ever made. I am grateful for it on a daily basis.

I love abortion. I'm an #AbortionFund sustainer. I hope you'll consider it, too.
https://abortionfunds.org/
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#AbortionIsHealthcare #SayAbortion #AbortionSanta #NNAF #AbortionFunds #ReproJustice

"We cannot lose sight of this simple truth: Abortion bans are extreme and harmful because they ban abortion, period."

Accessible, affordable abortion, on demand is the only acceptable outcome. Not exceptions. No compromises.
https://msmagazine.com/2022/12/13/abortion-ban-exceptions-rape-incest-health-life/
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#LiberateAbortion #StopTheBans #abortion #AbortionIsHealthcare #SayAbortion #ReproJustice #ReproductiveJustice

Everyone loves someone who's had an #abortion. Show your love & support by becoming a monthly donor to your local #AbortionFund.

In the spirit of the holidays, I'm doubling my contribution this month. Finances and resources are tighter for many during the winter months. We shouldn't have to anguish over access to essential, life-saving health care. But here we are.

#LiberateAbortion #AbortionIsHealthcare #NNAF #ReproJustice #Roe #Dobbs #SayAbortion

https://abortionfunds.org/funds/

Resources can become scarce in the winter months. No one should have to ask for essential healthcare for Christmas. But while we fight for full #BodilyAutonomyForAll, consider donating to your local #AbortionFund. Be someone's #AbortionSanta.

#LiberateAbortion #ReproJustice #AbortionIsHealthcare #NNAF #Roe #Dobbs

https://abortionfunds.org/funds/

#ActionItem! Join @AbortionFront for their monthly virtual action hour on January 9 to EXPOSE FAKE CLINICS!

Abortion Access Front is a great gateway to increasing your engagement and activism. If you're looking for ways to get involved, sign up! Grab some friends, some drinks and/or snacks and make it social!
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcvfuqurjItGtQuILuD6VV-8TyzATuCa5qK
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#AbortionAccessFront #AbortionAF #abortion #ExposeFakeClinics #LiberateAbortion #ReproJustice #AbortionActivism