Loretta Ross

Loretta Ross is a co-founder and former national coordinator for SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, a national coalition of 80+ women of color and allied reproductive justice organizations headquartered in Atlanta. Ross researches and writes extensively on African-American women and abortion and co-authored Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice, a book on the history of the activism of women of color.

Calling In Rather Than Calling Out: When #MeToo Meets Reproductive Justice

Loretta Ross & Toni M. Bond

As two of the co-creators of the transformative reproductive justice framework in 1994, we have grave concerns around how the reproductive justice theory and framework is being applied in this unfolding crisis and the implicit human rights violations.

Women’s Rights Are Human Rights and the Women’s March on Washington

Loretta Ross

I feel like celebrating our inevitable progress toward victory for equality, dignity, and justice, despite the reasons we are marching in the first place: to unite to challenge the immoral and probably illegitimate presidency of Donald Trump.

Amandla! South African Minister Underscores Reproductive Justice as a Global Framework

Loretta Ross

Reproductive justice is about human rights, including the right to have children, the right not to have children, and the right to parent the children we have in safe and healthy environments. This week at the United Nations, South Africa Minister of Social Development Bathabile Dlamini focused on reproductive justice as a global framework.

[Black and White Photo: Group of protesters, in foreground a Black woman holds a protest sign saying: Sterilization of Mothers violates UN Charter Afrticle 25, Vote No House Bill 20]

Eugenicists Never Retreat, They Just Regroup: Sterilization and Reproductive Oppression in Prisons

Loretta Ross

After winning a settlement against the IUD that caused my sterilization, I naively thought we had seen the end of sterilization atrocities.

Understanding Reproductive Justice: A Response to O’Brien

Marlene G. Fried, Loretta Ross, Rickie Solinger & Can We Advance Reproductive Justice in the Obama Era?

“Inclusivity” and “intersectionality” are not just words. They describe the theory and practice of the reproductive justice movement with the potential to revitalize all of our advocacy and enable us to create the large and motivated base of support required to secure reproductive rights, health, and justice for all.

Loretta Ross

Calling In Rather Than Calling Out: When #MeToo Meets Reproductive Justice

Women’s Rights Are Human Rights and the Women’s March on Washington

Amandla! South African Minister Underscores Reproductive Justice as a Global Framework

Eugenicists Never Retreat, They Just Regroup: Sterilization and Reproductive Oppression in Prisons

Understanding Reproductive Justice: A Response to O’Brien

Defeating Personhood: A Critical But Incomplete Victory for Reproductive Justice

Race, Class, and Rights in Mississippi: How Reproductive Justice Can Save the Pill and Save the Vote

Fighting Black Anti-Choice Campaigns: Trust Black Women

(VIDEO) Obama Can’t Make Eye Contact With Abortion Rights

Can We Advance Reproductive Justice in the Obama Era?

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