As the Holidays Arrive, Here's How to Navigate THOSE Conversations

Erin Matson, co-founder, president, and CEO of Reproaction, sits down to talk about how to have difficult conversations, when to engage, and how to build up your boundaries during conversations, confrontations, and questions.

Disinformation online used to ebb and flow, but now we are seeing it consistently, especially in regard to abortion pills and since the mifepristone court case." - Shireen Shakouri

They want to jail or kill people who don’t comply with their rigid, regressive gender roles, including forced birth and subjugation of LGBTQ+ people.” - Shireen Shakouri

TikTok Keeps Removing Abortion Pill Content

But Reproaction’s Shakouri worries that the platform may further censor content as abortion laws across the country tighten.

Dismantling Seven Abortion Myths—With Reproaction’s Shireen Shakouri

From old myths to new claims that abortion threatens endangered species through toilet water, anti-abortion disinformation is on the rise.

When we’re in a time when people could very easily be criminally prosecuted for seeking abortion, beyond even just getting the procedure itself, this type of technology and how it’s being used has a lot of implications." - Shireen Shakouri

They don’t necessarily live the way that they decreed that others should do.” - Erin Matson

The ‘I’m pro-choice, but’ crowd…they are positioning themselves as the decider of who is and who isn’t allowed to maintain their bodily autonomy." - Shireen Shakouri

[CPCs] know they’re selling a product that no one wants: stigma and disinformation. The anti-abortion movement preys on people they perceive as powerless and with nowhere else to go.” - Shireen Shakouri

No matter what happens to laws, abortion pills aren’t going anywhere—and information about how they work belongs to everyone.” - Erin Matson