Now, more than 80 cities and counties have adopted similar laws, especially in states like Texas, where near-total abortion bans are already in place.
But during “Arkangel,” the second episode of season four, the fear I felt was not caused by futuristic technologies, but instead by the perpetuation of a dangerous present-day misconception about a crucial women’s health service.
On January 27, Reproaction hosted our fifth maternal and infant mortality screening event at Uzazi Village in Kansas City, MO. The event was organized in partnership with Uzazi Village, Reale Justice Network, One Struggle KC, and ACLU-MO to host the well-attended event.
Harris Teeter’s efforts to silence its customers isn’t going to stop Reproaction from continuing to take bold direct action.
Their rhetoric of a holocaust is meant to spur emotional action, and while some abortion opponents channel their emotional urges into pressing the ‘donate’ button to fund fake clinics like Human Coalition, others see the necessary as taking a clinic worker’s life in “defense” of a fetus.
On Friday, January 19, Reproaction, NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia and the Virginia Latina Advocacy Network hosted a screening of the documentary “12th and Delaware.” The film follows an abortion clinic in Florida, and the crisis pregnancy center (CPC) across the street. In the film, staff at the CPC give an inside glimpse into the tactics these anti-abortion fake clinics commonly use to try to dissuade pregnant people from seeking abortions. The film also centers the abortion clinic, and the patients caught in the crosshairs of a charged political fight.
It’s pretty remarkable to say “Black Lives Matter” and shame Black women’s choices in the same breath.
Hakima Tafunzi Payne has a Bachelor’s of Nursing and a Master’s in Nursing Education. She is currently a student of Midwifery working toward the Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) credential.
Reproaction looks forward to continuing its action against Harris Teeter through 2018 until emergency contraception – not a card on the shelf – is on the shelf where it belongs.
I can honestly say the only thing better than counter-protesting religious zealots is doing it in costume while holding humorous signs.
They’d probably describe you as pre-pregnant, as we know the goal of many “pro-lifers” is to make sure all sex has the consequence of conception and all women become mothers.