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Reproductive Justice: Women Need Better Health Care and Abortion Rights
- Reproductive Justice was created by black women in response to the lack of inclusion in the reproductive rights space. The term is now gaining popularity.
- Many Reproductive Justice activists say the framework has been adopted and abused by larger organizations.
- A new generation of reproductive justice activists is shedding light on its history and expanding the movement.
Loretta Ross could feel the excitement in her Chicago hotel room. She and her eleven other black women gathered, Healthcare Conference, June 1994.
On that day, the women felt their community and reproductive health care needs were being sidelined, so they took a private chat away from the other 200 white women who were there.
