Abortion Is Reproductive Justice.

We know their agenda. Making abortion a crime is just another way for racist police and racist leaders to try to take away our freedom, control us, and cage us. When we talk about police threatening Black communities, we need to talk about the impact of abortion bans on Black women.

They are not stopping at banning abortion. They want to put people who get an abortion — you, me, your neighbor, your girlfriend, your friend — and anyone who helps us — in prison. They want the police to make examples out of us. Black and Latina women get abortions at higher rates than other demographics because there are economic factors that go into wanting to have a child. We’ve seen what happened in Ohio with Brittany Watts, a Black Woman who was put in prison after having a miscarriage at home. She should’ve been at home resting and grieving her loss but instead was criminalized.

We don’t have the freedom to raise healthy and safe families if we worry about where we’ll get our next meal, when we’ll get our next check, and if our neighborhood is safe.

Make no mistake, the same anti-choice leaders who want to take away our right to bodily autonomy and health care, are the same racist leaders who have been threatening our liberation for generations. 

About SisterSong:

SisterSong grounds our work in Reproductive Justice, the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities.

This framework goes beyond simply being “pro-choice”; it acknowledges that we cannot address this issue through a single lens, because we often do not have the privilege of siloing our lived experiences.