Policies ostensibly put in place to combat illegal immigration have proven particularly detrimental to immigrant women’s access to reproductive justice.
The war on women really ramps up with the passage of HR3 through the House and the defunding of Planned Parenthood on the state level. Also, Stephanie Coontz talks feminist history, the reality and myths of The Feminine Mystique.
The pro-choice movement and the birthing community alike are waking up to the fact that abortion rights and the rights of childbearing women are inextricably linked.
As immigration debates have increasingly cast immigrant women as “unfit” and “undesirable”, the reproductive rights and ability for immigrant women to make healthy decisions for themselves and their families has been increasingly undermined.
Like most six-year-olds, little bits of information about the world leave my son asking, “Why? And why not??” I didn’t want to answer: "why are people celebrating the fact that this man is dead?"
