The Centrality of Social Movements in Addressing the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Our research shows that social movement activism is an integral part of service delivery for sexual and reproductive health and gender-based violence.
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Read more: How Adult Guardianship Law Fails to Protect Contraceptive Decision-Making Rights How Adult Guardianship Law Fails to Protect Contraceptive Decision-Making Rights
Reform is needed to address the restrictions on reproductive decision-making rights that adults under guardianship currently face.
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Read more: Health Justice Meets Reproductive Justice Health Justice Meets Reproductive Justice
When people cannot obtain abortion care, they incur social, financial, and physical costs that are difficult to bear.
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Read more: Beyond Abortion: The Far-Reaching Implications of SB 8’s Enforcement Mechanism Beyond Abortion: The Far-Reaching Implications of SB 8’s Enforcement Mechanism
The novel enforcement mechanism behind SB 8 may soon appear in a wide range of legislation, making it more difficult to challenge unconstitutional laws.
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Read more: Shortening Medical Training Would Help Trainees Balance Family and Career Shortening Medical Training Would Help Trainees Balance Family and Career
The length of medical training unnecessarily compromises trainees’ ability to balance their careers with starting families.
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Read more: Connecting the Dots: Reproductive Justice + Research Justice = Health Justice Connecting the Dots: Reproductive Justice + Research Justice = Health Justice
Reproductive health, rights, and justice have been the proverbial canaries in the coal mine when considering the loss of bodily autonomy and human rights.
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Read more: How Social Movements Have Facilitated Access to Abortion During the Pandemic How Social Movements Have Facilitated Access to Abortion During the Pandemic
Further on-the-ground innovations, outside the courtroom and across state borders, will be needed to meet future challenges to abortion access.
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Read more: COVID-19 and the New Reproductive Justice Movement COVID-19 and the New Reproductive Justice Movement
The pandemic finally shifted the reproductive justice movement’s focus to abortion access, rather than abortion rights.
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Read more: Colorado Passes Landmark Birth Equity Bill Package Colorado Passes Landmark Birth Equity Bill Package
This month, activists in Colorado succeeded in passing a sweeping package of bills designed to address inequities in the obstetric system.
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Read more: The Stakes of the Pending Colombian Constitutional Court Abortion Decision The Stakes of the Pending Colombian Constitutional Court Abortion Decision
The Colombian Constitutional Court is currently considering whether to decriminalize abortion beyond the narrow exceptions already recognized in law.
