Erin Matson

Reproaction

Erin Matson is co-founder and co-director of Reproaction, a new direct action group forming to increase access to abortion and advance reproductive justice. She has appeared in a variety of publications and frequently on television, including ABC World News, BBC World News and MSNBC. An organizer and strategist, Erin has led local, state and national advocacy campaigns on areas including abortion rights, contraceptive access and cultural representations of women. Erin has served as an editor at large for Rewire News Group, and a vice president at the National Organization for Women. She is the proud mother of a daughter.

At UN, Vatican Continues to Claim Limited Jurisdiction on Sexual Abuse of Children by Priests

Erin Matson

Vatican officials appeared Monday before the United Nations Committee on Torture to discuss the sexual abuse of children by priests, claiming the Holy See lacks juridical power to combat the problem on an international basis.

Choice, Surrogacy, and a Troubling Response to My Previous Commentary on Criminalization

Erin Matson

Last week, Rewire published a piece in response to an earlier commentary I wrote about what was being billed as a feminist effort to criminalize surrogacy in Kansas. Much as I respect them, it appears the co-authors of that article responded to a straw man.

‘Freeze Your Eggs, Free Your Career’ Is Insulting to Women

Erin Matson

The latest cover of Bloomberg Businessweek features a well-dressed white woman standing with her hand on her hip, underneath the words "FREEZE YOUR EGGS, FREE YOUR CAREER." But it's plain fallacy to believe that an individual woman can outsmart a racist, sexist job market by freezing her eggs.

Virginia Bishops Use Medicaid Stalemate to Call for New Abortion Funding Restriction

Erin Matson

The bishops urge repealing a section in the Code of Virginia that provides state funding for abortions in the Medicaid program in the event of a gross and totally incapacitating physical deformity or mental deficiency in a fetus.

Is Preventing Surrogacy Feminist? No, It’s Anti-Choice

Erin Matson

The Kansas legislature is considering a bill that would make surrogate parents, gestational carriers, and anyone who assists them liable to up to a $10,000 fine or imprisonment of one year. But despite what some supporters of the legislation may say, criminalizing freely chosen reproductive actions is not part of the feminist project.

Why Paycheck Fairness But Not ENDA? Did Obama Run Out of Ink?

Erin Matson

President Obama wasted an opportunity this week, and I'm willing to be the feminist advocate to say it. When he signed two executive orders extending critical provisions of the Paycheck Fairness Act, he addressed only some employment discrimination, and equality for some is not equality for women.

Report Tackles Supreme Court Ruling on Workplace Harassment

Erin Matson

A new report from the National Women's Law Center argues, among other things, that Congress should pass the Fair Employment Protection Act to correct the narrow definition of a supervisor created by last summer's Supreme Court decision in Vance v. Ball State University.

How Virginia’s ‘Conscience Clause’ for Genetic Counselors Could Set a National Precedent

Erin Matson

Genetic counselors in Virginia who object to abortion may now prevent women from learning the results of their genetic tests before their pregnancies progress to a point when legal abortion is impossible to obtain—and the practice could become legal in other states as well.

‘You Don’t Always Get To Be at the Table’: Virginia Democrat Champions ‘Conscience Law’

Erin Matson

A recently signed law to license genetic counselors in Virginia includes a sweeping "conscience" provision that is the direct result of a partnership between an anti-choice group and a prominent Democrat who just two years ago was held up nationally as a hero and champion for reproductive rights.

Virginia Assembly Closes Without Passing Medicaid Expansion—Or a Budget

Erin Matson

Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe has called legislators back for a special session that will begin March 24. If a budget is not adopted by July 1, the state government will shut down.

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