Tag Archive for: reproductive rights

Future Forward: How My Advocacy Work Began at Age 13
The spring of my eighth grade year, Roe v. Wade was overturned. Up to that point, I had not been involved in advocacy work nor had I paid close attention to politics. I organized a walkout that involved 500 students in our small community.

One Year After Dobbs: Minnesota Abortion Providers Speak
It’s scarier [now] for patients and for providers — there are targets on our backs, but we’re committed to meeting people’s needs.

Post-Dobbs: Editor’s Letter and TOC
“A patient said to me, ‘You’ve given me my future back.’ When somebody says that to you, how do you not keep going?”
— Tammi Kromenaker, clinic director at Red River Women’s Clinic in Moorhead

Tapestry: My abortion was…
"Being able to make the decision then created the person I am today."

2022 Changemaker: UnRestrict Minnesota Coalition
“We have been saying, ‘abortion is not an issue you should be running from, it is an issue you should be running on.'"

What Is On Voters’ Minds?
We talked with candidates and other Minnesota engaged in politics about how reproductive rights, public safety, and education are impacting voters.

Nothing For Us Without Us
The bodies of women and people who were assigned female at birth (AFAB) are considered commodities in the United States, objects that are able to be bought or sold.

Numerous Minnesota Abortion Restrictions Ruled Unconstitutional
Advance-practice clinicians are already undergoing training to dispense the two-pill abortion medication regime. One of the state’s largest hospitals, HCMC (Hennepin Healthcare), is beginning to prepare to offer abortions as well.

RIP Roe (or… maybe not in peace…)
This is a living page of updates. Changemakers Alliance is building a statewide conversation about what happens next in Minnesota, including how to come closer to electing 51 percent women's leadership this fall

Commentary: What I Learned From the Birth Control Debate
As we reawaken to the control issues related to women's bodies again... a reflection on the tension between two competing purposes. "One is social control — ensuring that people conform to social norms, standards and ideologies by providing services that control those who are deemed unworthy or deviant."

News: Minnesota Attorney General and Local Planned Parenthood President Talk Abortion Rights
People born today in this country will likely have fewer rights and opportunities to pursue their own lives than people in my generation have had.

Why the World Doesn’t Deserve Black Children: The Peculiar Birthing Rights of Black Women
It was her words “how dare you” that made me sit with my ideas about reproductive rights.


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