Tag Archives: Reproductive Justice
Is Women for Obama limiting our feminist imagination?
Tweet A SYTYCB entry I’ve got to hand it to them: Women for Obama’s design team is pretty brilliant. This weekend, the campaign’s lady branch released some new ads, including this gorgeous image for gottaregister.com: Women for Obama presents the 2012 campaign as the latest step in a long, progressive feminist struggle. The juxtaposition of [...]
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Open Letter to Representative Trent Franks: What Caring About Women and Babies Really Looks Like
TweetDear Representative Trent Franks, Today, I watched you debate during the markup for HR 3803, or, as you may know it, the District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would ban abortion after 20 weeks in Washington, DC. I watched you valiantly fight to save “the children” from their pain even in the [...]
Voice of Choice: Turning the tables on anti-choice bullies
TweetIt seemed one of the most unlikely places for an anti-abortion protest – a quiet, suburban middle school during back-to-school night. And yet, there they were, pictures of bloody fetuses in hand, and the picture, name and phone number of Todd Stave, entrepreneur and owner of a Germantown, Maryland building that houses one the most [...]
The American dream, interrupted
Tweet(Originally posted at RepoRepro) Rosie Wang, Law Students for Reproductive Justice (LSRJ) Summer Legal Intern In many ways Bei Bei Shuai’s story sounds like my mom’s. Both women were raised in large Chinese cities, in households where both parents worked. Both came to the United States, following partners with promising job prospects. Both worked in [...]
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Dear Romney, Ryan and the Republican Party