Anti-abortion activists are willing to take extreme measures to ensure the collapse of Planned Parenthood causing collateral damage may even be part of the goal.
More efforts must go into working across movement spaces in general, and this training is a good place to start for those interested in both reproductive justice and electoral politics.
The anti-abortion movement must continue to be exposed for what it is: foot soldiers behind an agenda that cannot be accomplished in a democracy or without bloodshed.
What fake clinics do is not support. It’s coercion, control, and brainwashing. It's not “very good,” but very dangerous.
I recently received an email from a public relations firm representing an anti-abortion fake clinic asking to be removed from our Fake Clinic Database. My answer? No.
Discussions like this demonstrate how issues usually considered separate are outcomes of the same systems of domination and oppression.
"It was never really a thought in my mind to get paid to do this work, because it’s work I feel I need to be in to be free and to be alive."
We’re not satisfied with the status quo, so we’re challenging ourselves, challenging each other, and challenging the system to do better because people deserve it.
For one: the Muslim ban was a family separation policy, pure and simple.
How do we deal with that constant struggle of wanting to do more because you value the students, their academic success, their health overall, and not just value the dollars that they bring in.
Not only is abstinence-only education – sometimes referred to as “sexual risk avoidance” – ineffective because it doesn’t delay sexual initiation nor reduce sexual risk behaviors, it is also harmful.