Reproductive Justice

What is Reproductive Justice?

Reproductive Justice is a more holistic, pragmatic, and experience-based movement than either prolife or prochoice. Reproductive Justice lies at the intersection of human rights, reproductive health, and social systems of dominance and oppression.

A reproductive justice approach to abortion recognizes that abortion is only one of many reproductive experiences, including parenting, childbirth, pregnancy, adoption, sexuality, and choosing to remain child-free. A reproductive justice approach focuses on the ways gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, religion, age, and health/ability status all combine to shape our various reproductive experiences. 

Prolife and Prochoice are political perspectives that primarily benefit politicians. They inspire voters to vote. They inspire donors to give money to political campaigns. And they provide simplistic, easily-understood sound bytes that politicians can use to connect with their constituents. 

Neither prochoice nor prolife have much substance to say about real people's real life experiences with parenting, childbirth, pregnancy, sexuality, or abortion.

Abortion Conversation Projects seek opportunities to work in close partnership to offer helpful webinars, trainings and workshops that support collaborative Stigma-Busting projects and create new ways and opportunities to talk about abortion honestly and publicly.