Center on Reproductive Rights & Justice

🖤 #BIAW2025 is a reminder: infertility is a human rights issue — and Black communities deserve care that affirms, informs, and supports.

Support organizations like BMMA that are pushing for systems and solutions that center Black reproductive futures.

Learn more: bit.ly/bmmagiving.

Abortion Is Just One Part of a Larger Story About Pregnancy Behind Bars Abortion is just one part of a greater story about how indifferent — and even cruel — reproductive healthcare can be in prisons and jails.

Reproductive healthcare behind bars was dismal even before Roe v. Wade ended.

Here are four women’s stories about the unevenness, indifference — and even cruelty — of reproductive healthcare in U.S. prisons and jails.

Prepare. Enforce. Protect: Medicaid + ACA Defense - National Health Law Program Congress has passed it. The President has signed it. Our work has become even more critical.The federal budget reconciliation…

🚨 The “One Big Beautiful Bill” Act is a disaster for Medicaid & ACA. It guts access, adds barriers, and puts low-income and underserved people at risk. Advocates: @nhelp.bsky.social’s new hub has what you need to fight back.
🔗 healthlaw.org/prepare
#Medicaid #PrepareEnforceProtect

Everyone deserves to start their family on their own terms, but Black women face barriers and inequities in access to fertility care. This Black (in)Fertility Awareness Week, I join Sister Song & @blackmamasmatter.bsky.social in calling for solutions.

Disability Justice is Reproductive Justice. Our fight for bodily autonomy is one & the same. Reproductive Justice means we ALL have the power & resources to make informed decisions about our own bodies. That includes people with disabilities. That includes all of us.

#DisabilityPrideMonth

As Medicaid Turns 60, Immigrant and BIPOC Communities Face an Uncertain Future | Common Dreams The Medicaid cuts passed in the recent budget bill will severely limit access to coverage for millions, particularly those already living at the margins.

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Hear from Imani Worthy (Black Families Love and Unite), Jasmine Sankofa (Movement for Family Power), Khiara M. Bridges (UC Berkeley School of Law), Margaret Prescod (Global Women's Strike), Rena Karefa-Johnson (FWD.US), and Zara Raven (Philly Childcare Collective).

Please join us to hear from abolition dreamers who are advancing reproductive justice by building models of community care and demanding reparations.

For decades, racist myths like the “welfare queen” have been created to block the expansion of government assistance for families and turn “assistance” into a site of surveillance. This tactic continues today. But in the face of structural abandonment, community protects community.

Systems of criminalization have long stolen the resources families need to be safe. Meanwhile, the family police criminalize parents for lack of resources, then drive them deeper into poverty through surveillance and separation.

RSVP for Part 5: We Got Us: Community Care Models To Disrupt Poverty Criminalization and Family Separation of the Breaking Silos in Reproductive Justice Virtual Teach-In Series on August 12th at 12:30 PM PT. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

No, California is not guaranteed to remain an abortion haven OPINION: “The closing of five Planned Parenthood clinics in California reveals limits of the state’s ability to remain an abortion haven,” says senior political writer Joe Garofoli.

Massive federal funding cuts pose new challenges to California's work to remain a state with robust abortion access.

Dr. Theresa Cheng urged Californians to “stay stalwart in protecting reproductive health" in @sfchronicle.com

She Ate a Poppy Seed Salad Just Before Giving Birth. Then They Took Her Baby Away. Hospitals use drug tests that return false positives from poppy seed bagels, decongestants and Zantac. Yet newborns are being taken from parents based on the results.

Read @sho-walter.bsky.social’s full story on pregnant patients reported for positive drug tests:

Illustration of a parent and a baby, a person in a wheelchair, two people dancing, and a person riding a skateboard. The parent wears rainbow pants and the skateboarder wears a top with the colors of the trans flag. Underneath the illustration reads: Health care is for everyone.

July is #DisabilityPrideMonth! Everyone deserves to live in a world that celebrates and makes space for us — and ensures that we have access to the health care and other resources we need to thrive.

LGBTQ+ youth are not political pawns. They are young people who deserve to live as their true selves and thrive.

If you, or someone you know, needs mental health resources, visit: hrc.im/LGBTQMentalHealth

No one should ever have to travel far to access basic health care.

But after Roe was overturned, the average travel time to access abortion care grew by 8.5 hours, and more than half of respondents said their abortion care required an overnight hotel stay.

Graphic with text "The Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law 35 years ago today." Above the text is a photo of two people in wheel chairs and two people standing behind them next to a desk where former president H.W. Bush is signing a piece of paper.

The ADA was signed into law 35 years ago today, and remains the most comprehensive civil rights law protecting people with disabilities.

This anniversary comes at a time when the health and dignity of disabled people are under attack by the Trump administration.

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We are a multidisciplinary research center dedicated to issues of reproduction and designed to support law and policy solutions by bridging the academic-advocate divide. Learn more about us at www.law.berkeley.edu/research/cen... and stay tuned for more!

A screenshot of an online article from Ms. Magazine titled "To expand access to IFVF we need to expand access to abortion. by Jess Ogden." There is a stock photo of pro-abortion protesters.

On #WorldIVFDay, we assert the crucial link between #IVF and abortion, both vital decisions between a patient and their doctor, that should be free from political interference. History shows us that when abortion is restricted, IVF is restricted too. @msmagazine.com

A screenshot of an article from Rewire News Group the headline reads "Abortion: travel time, costs for abortions increased after state bans, researchers find" The article is written by Anna Claire Vollers. And there is a stock photo of a black woman driving a car.

Research confirms abortion bans spike travel costs and delay care where restrictions exist, yet 97% of patients remain resolute in accessing abortion. Only 3% in the study chose to carry to term. Dive deeper in @acvollers.bsky.social's piece for @rewirenewsgroup.com here: bit.ly/4f0wtRO

BMMA had the joy of supporting Women Engaged for their Justice Jam & Community Fair in ATL this past June 2025!

We shared our work in Black Maternal Health, with a focus on our policy initiatives, & had great conversations with community members eager to learn more.

#BMHinAction

📆 Today marks World IVF Day—the anniversary of the first baby born through IVF back in 1978. Since then, this life-changing technology is a critical method of family-building. But sadly, it's not easily accessible to everyone. So, how can we change that? Watch to find out.

8 in 10 Americans support the right to abortion. Repro freedom is popular, and anti-abortion extremists know this. So we’re fighting back to protect our fundamental freedoms. To stay up to date on your state, give us a follow or check out one of our chapter state accounts!

Reproductive rights are not just a “women’s issue.”

Every single person should be concerned that the government is stripping away the right to bodily autonomy from human beings.

🥼 The Doctor's In!
BIG LOVE to our AAF bestie Dr. @michelebgoodwin.bsky.social 🎤👑. She’s out here getting the love and 💐she deserves in @MsMagazine.com for dropping knowledge on how the 13th & 14th Amendments were always about BODILY FREEDOM—especially for Black women. Duh. buff.ly/bmnj9VK

Abortion care is health care. The EACH Act would ensure everyone—no matter their income, insurance, or zip code—can get the care they need. We are proud to support this bold legislation for abortion justice. Thank you @RepPressley and @SenDuckworth for leading the way.

Abortion is health care. It’s common, safe, and it’s your right. We will never stop fighting for you to get the care you need and deserve.

Inside the Feminist Fight to Reclaim Our Reproductive Freedom (with Renee Bracey Sherman, Michele Goodwin, Angie Jean-Marie and Amy Merrill, Susan Frietsche, and Gov. Maura Healey) Meet the Voices Renee Bracey Sherman, founder and executive director of the abortion storytelling organization We Testify, co-host of The A-Files: A Secret History of Abortion, and co-author of the bo...

Tune into the full @msmagazine.com podcast feat. @carmenriosss.bsky.social‬ @massgovernor.bsky.social @renee.bsky.social @michelegoodwin.bsky.social @plancpills.bsky.social HERE: msmagazine.com/podcast/insi...

Just a reminder that @trevorproject.bsky.social's services for LGBTQIA+ young people in crisis remain active 24/7/365. They aren't going anywhere, & we adults should all donate to their lifesaving work.