This excerpt of a roundtable discussion on reproductive justice looks at the intersectionality of the reproductive justice movement, and the collaboration between other right-wing movements and anti-abortionists.
The Right has been using three main approaches to their anti-abortion strategies: fetus-centered, woman-centered, and third-party protections. The Right has used these strategies to attempt to pass bills to restrict reproductive care across the country.
In states across the country, anti-abortion activists co-opting the legacy of both anti-slavery activists and the immigrants’ rights movement are lobbying for municipal and county-level ordinances that purport to criminalize abortion locally.
What happens in the SBC, with its deep connections to the Republican Party and the anti-abortion movement, inevitably affects U.S. politics more broadly. But this year, the reverse was true as well.
We are the directors of the American Indian Studies and the Gender, Women's & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) programs at Eastern Washington University. We are reeling at the latest racist mass shootings and all of the current attacks on bodily autonomy
The event was intended to be light-hearted, featuring musical chairs, mocktails and a chance for kids to vogue alongside the performers. But before the doors had even opened, the whole thing turned ugly.
