by Alice Sparberg Alexiou
In Washington’s latest attempt to control women’s bodies, President Bush in April signed into law the so-called “Unborn Victims of Violence” Act (UWA). The law states that if someone attacks…
Reproductive Rights Update
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The Foreign Policy Message We Should (But Won’t) Hear from the President
By Rori Kramer
…that annual human rights reports remove all references to reproductive rights. They prohibited embassies from flying Pride flags during Pride Month, a reverse of years of support to activists. The…
Link Roundup: A Fight for Reproductive Rights
Jill Finkelstein
Welcome to this week’s installment of Lilith’s Link Roundup. Each week we post Jewish and feminist highlights from around the web. If there’s anything you want to be sure we…
Generation I.V.F.
by Miriam Zoll
At age 50, I am an official member of Generation I.V.F., having grown up after the Pill and Baby Boomer feminists revolutionized women’s reproductive choices and lives. We watched as…
What Motivates an Activist?
Eleanor J. Bader
…tenants’ rights—or plays about sexual violence, reproductive justice, the Holocaust, or women in sports, her passion for equity is evident. Cooper grew up in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, and…
If You’re Scared About “Roe” Today, Welcome to the Struggle
Chanel Dubofsky
…fascists, immigrant detention, etc, but at the same time, people don’t understand that all of these things are connected.” “The fight is always intersectional —it’s not always about reproductive justice…
Safeguarding Our Abortion Rights
by Alice Sparberg Alexiou
We have an obligation to safeguard the reproductive rights of all women. Any legal restrictions on abortion, including late-term, could prevent even the most conservative Orthodox Jew from following Jewish…
My Family’s Bootleg Contraception Operation
Nina Siegal
…would round out the congress, a Broadway actress and a British Parliamentarian. The reproductive rights pioneer found the New York City police already there, blocking the doors. Some 200 audience…
Who Can Pay for an Abortion?
Chanel Dubofsky
…one. Everyone else? Good luck. You may be wondering how this could possibly be true. How will money be able to circumvent laws and regulations that already severely limit reproductive…
Uplifting Unnamed Women
Naima Hirsch Gelman
…to the unnamed women (at least not in any well-known collection of text). If we say that every person is a world unto themselves, how many worlds have we ignored…