Reproaction Hosts Press Conference Demanding End to Prosecuting Pregnancy Outcomes in Missouri

Reproaction co-founder/co-director Pamela Merritt hosted speakers Sara Baker, Legislative and Policy Director, ACLU of Missouri, Mallory Schwarz, Executive Director, NARAL Pro-Choice Missouri, and Indra Woods Lusero, Staff Attorney, National Advocates for Pregnant Women on a call-in press conference to discuss the alarming consequences of criminalizing abortion and prosecuting women for pregnancy outcomes - especially as the St. Louis region has emerged as the front line in the battle to maintain and expand access to abortion.

If you walk away from this forum with anything, understand the logical consequence of an abortion ban in 2019 is not a wire hanger — it is jail." - Pamela Merritt

This is a deliberate attempt to enshire white supremacy into power through reproductive regulation." - Pamela Merritt

I’m A California College Student, and I Know Abortion Pill Access Promotes Student Safety

While abortion with pills is safe, and access to abortion pills can vastly improve young people’s lives, in contrast, barriers to accessing health care are correlated with negative health and economic outcomes.

I work with women who, if the price of their birth control went up by five dollars, they would not be able to afford it. And they aren’t joking.” - Pamela Merritt

Fight for Access to Reproductive Care Heats Up

The logical consequence of banning abortion is and always has been sending people to jail for pregnancy outcomes, including but not limited to self-managed abortions taking place outside of medical settings. Poor people and women of color will be targeted most.

In New Video, Congressman Rob Wittman (R-VA) Fails to Denounce Women Going to Jail for Abortion

New video footage shows Congressman Rob Wittman (R-VA) failing to denounce women going to jail for self-managed abortion.

The reality of the situation is that people always have and always will find ways to end their own pregnancies." - Erin Matson

The only appropriate move is for Missouri to stop using government as a tool of oppression, and immediately renew [the Planned Parenthood clinic’s] license." - Pamela Merritt

New Reproaction Video Shows Congressman Ron Wright (R-TX) 
Doubling Down on His Controversial Abortion Comments, Calling Woman “Idiot”

Wright doubled down on his desire to punish abortion providers including those women who self-manage their own abortions