Funny how the conclusions drawn from these reports never include "Oh, the problem is capitalism."
"Roughly 40 percent of respondents cited economic barriers – such as the costs of raising children, job insecurity and expensive housing – as the main reason for having fewer children"
“Governments may need to tax working people more or take on more debt...” [professor of social statistics and demography] Wisniowski noted."
More States Consider Curbing Drug Testing at Childbirth
A growing number of states are considering legislation to set up protections for patients who might be drug tested when they give birth. Three of the bills were introduced following an investigative series by The Marshall Project and Reveal that exposed the harms of drug testing at childbirth — including how many patients are often […]
A Doctor’s Impassioned Defense of Later Abortions
Dr. Shelley Sella kept a journal from the very first day she got on a plane to go work for George Tiller, the third-trimester abortion provider who was assassinated in 2009. As the first woman to openly provide third-trimester abortions in the US, she spent nearly 20 years commuting from her home in California to […]
https://voices.murica.website/madison-pauly/a-doctors-impassioned-defense-of-later-abortions/
Forget Dobbs—The Personhood Movement Wants Much More
To hear people in the anti-abortion movement tell it, the idea that human personhood begins at fertilization is as old as the Bible. But as abortion historian Mary Ziegler writes in her latest book, Personhood: The New Civil War Over Reproduction, the legal movement for fetal personhood only dates from the 1960s, when anti-abortion activists […]
https://voices.murica.website/nina-martin/forget-dobbs-the-personhood-movement-wants-much-more/
Experts say the closures indicate that #financial & operational challenges, rather than future #legal bans, may be the biggest threats to #abortion access in states whose #laws still protect it.
"These states that we have touted as being really the best kind of versions of our vision for #ReproductiveJustice, they too struggle w/problems," said Erin Grant, a co-exec dir of the #AbortionCare Network, a national membership org for independent clinics.
Christian Fascist Youngkin abuses his power with government intrusion in women's lives. Vetoed contraception, and Confederate tax exemption bills again
#FascistGlennYoungkin #ReproductiveJustice
#VirginiaForcedBirthState https://www.dcnewsnow.com/news/local-news/virginia/youngkin-vetoes-contraception-confederate-tax-exemption-bills-signs-other-bipartisan-measures/
Adding for the people in the back ... #Trans #rights are #humanRights.
Raise your hand if you really want to let government tell some (trans) people what they can and cannot do with their own bodies.
Okay, keep those hands up so the #ReproductiveJustice folks know who you are.
2025 #DavidNorr Youth Activist #Award Winner:
Tatiana Chance
https://www.au.org/youthactivistaward/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9HmVHYa2rQ
Tatiana Chance is a dedicated #Black youth activist, #nonprofit leader, and #advocate for #reproductivejustice with deep roots in her community. Tatiana has a passion for working to restore #abortion access from a religiously motivated ban in her state.