Center on Reproductive Rights & Justice

Today, the Campaign for Southern Equality released a report shedding light on the creeping normalization and widening scope of restrictions on gender-affirming care. Read the full report: transyouthemergencyproject.org/#documenting

September 18 is National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day

Today is National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day, which highlights the unique health and social needs, as well as the challenges of HIV prevention, testing, treatment, and care among people who are aging.

#NHAAD

California Passes Bill Allowing Omission of Patients’ Names From Abortion Pill Bottles The intent is to protect health care providers who send the pills to patients in states with abortion bans, and to reassure patients who fear they could be identified.

California legislators have passed one of the strongest measures so far to protect health care providers operating under shield laws.

Learn more about the latest accomplishments of UC Berkeley Law’s Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice in their 2024-2025 Impact Report, "Connecting Movements: Building Power for Change" drive.google.com/file/d/1oa8k... @crrjberkeley.bsky.social

"The landscape is fraught. It’s dangerous. ... it’s deeply divided in terms of access by geography ... where you live dictates your own reproductive autonomy." - Arneta Rogers, executive director of the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice @crrjberkeley.bsky.social on the Voices Carry podcast.

Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice Executive Director Arneta Rogers on the Post-Dobbs Lanscape

Check out Episode 16 of Berkeley Law Voices Carry, where host Gwyneth Shaw sits down with our executive director Arneta Rogers to discuss the post-Dobbs landscape. open.spotify.com/episode/44rG...

“Our starting point is child welfare, but we can see the threads and the connections everywhere else.” - Margaret Prescod, Coordinator at Global Women’s Strike

“Crime is not about conduct. Crime is a social construct.” - Rena Karefa-Johnson, Vice President of National Initiatives at FWD.us

“Reparations are not charity. They are debt that is owed.” - Imani Worthy, Co-Founder and Executive Director at Black Families Love and Unite

“Why Black and Brown families? No other communities have endured continuous government and forced family destruction for centuries… When harm is targeted, repair must be targeted too.” - Imani Worthy, Co-Founder and Executive Director at Black Families Love and Unite

“Putting money in the hands of caregivers has an impact beyond the dollars and cents.” - Jasmine Sankofa, Executive Director at Movement for Family Power

“We are carrying our ancestors as they are carrying us.” - Margaret Prescod, Coordinator at Global Women’s Strike

“We have had networks of kinship, of care. This idea as the standard automatically makes us less safe.” - Zara Raven, Coordinator at Philly Childcare Collective

“There’s a lot of pressure to live up to this nuclear form of family. Communities of color have not historically structured our families that way in the first place.“ - Zara Raven, Coordinator at Philly Childcare Collective

“Ideological oppression leads to institutional oppression. The impact is family separation. The impact is continuing family trauma.” - Imani Worthy, Co-Founder and Executive Director at Black Families Love and Unite

“Ideological oppression always starts with the lie that says one group of people is more deserving of power, resources, and humanity than another.” - Imani Worthy, Co-Founder and Executive Director at Black Families Love and Unite

“We have to resist the framings that powerful people offer us, and offer our own in our resistance.” - Khiara M. Bridges, Professor at UC Berkeley School of Law

“Instead of identifying the causes of that social dislocation in racism, in failure to invest in communities, the Moynihan Report said the issue is Black mothers.” - Khiara M. Bridges, Professor at UC Berkeley School of Law

Tune into Part 5 of the Breaking Silos in RJ Teach-In series. Follow along the 🧵 for more! #BreakingSilosRJ @movfamilypower.bsky.social @ifwhenhow.bsky.social

🖤 #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.

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.