When reporting on the Midwest, media outlets often forget about communities subject to state violence and suppression.
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Hollywood rarely tells the truth about abortion. ‘Little Woods’ is different.
Little Woods tells the truth about abortion. In Hollywood, that’s a revelation.
‘Abortion Regret’ Shows the Long History of a Favorite Anti-Choice Talking Point
Abortion Regret lays out a history of criminalization as a process that includes sowing stigma, creating systems of surveillance, manipulating or compiling new data, and establishing who gets to be a worthy victim.
No, We Shouldn’t Be Excited About the Fall of ‘Roe’
In one article, a prominent pro-choice advocate and author offers a take that is breathtakingly insulting and obtuse, particularly for us as Black women and reproductive justice leaders living and working in the Midwest and the South, where abortion access is most threatened.
‘Reversing Roe’ and the Importance of Telling Complete Stories
The film left a number of important stories regarding communities of color on the cutting room floor.
Black Women’s Abortions Are Not ‘Black-on-Black Crime’
Black liberation is not measured in numbers of Black births; it is measured by thriving, autonomous Black lives.
Abortion Is Not a Thought Experiment
Rather than reduce women’s lives to a misogynistic thought experiment for op-ed pages, we should listen to what it is women say they need to lead fulfilling lives, have healthy pregnancies and build thriving families — not punish them.
“The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Black Mirror,” and the bleak futrue of abortion on TV
It’s not just Gilead’s regressive dystopia — too frequently, futuristic TV looks back at abortion, not forward
The U.S. Should Not Be Subjecting Refugees To ‘Reverse’ Abortions
America already has a dark history of state-sanctioned violence on Black and brown bodies for medical experimentation, particularly on those living in poverty and under government control. And we stood as idly by then as we do now.
The Laughable Hypocrisy of the ‘Pro-Life’ Movement Under Trump
The contemporary anti-abortion movement has never really cared about lives outside the womb. Now they’re praising Trump as a “pro-life” icon while his administration neglects undocumented immigrants, sick kids, and poor families.