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Reproductive Justice Framework
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Afiya Center
Transforming the lives, health, and overall wellbeing of Black womxn and girls by providing refuge, education, and resources; we act to ignite the communal voices of Black womxn resulting in our full achievement of reproductive freedom. -- website
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Black Mammas Matter Alliance
The Black Mamas Matter Alliance is a national network of Black women-led and Black-led, birth and reproductive justice organizations and multi-disciplinary professionals, working across the full-spectrum of maternal and reproductive health.
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Collective Power of Reproductive Justice
Collective liberation is possible when we commit to building new leadership and political power, especially where reproductive justice is most under attack.
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Forward Together
Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers peoples, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. We prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color. We utilize a cultural strategy to shift the ways we think about family and to build power and movements, grounded in our lived experiences, histories, theories and struggles for reproductive justice.
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Granny's Birth Initiative (Kentucky)
The goal of Granny’s Birth Initiative is to provide aid to disadvantaged families during childbirth. These families often experience neglect due to societal biases or lack of recognition. The initiative focuses on offering assistance to incarcerated, homeless, orphaned, and BIPOC individuals who often face systemic and racial disparities in maternal and infant healthcare.
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If When How
If, When, and How You Decide:
We imagine a world where every person has the right and resources to make reproductive decisions free from discrimination, coercion, or violence.
Why We Do This Work:
We believe that everyone should have the power to decide if, when, and how to define, create, and sustain their families. Our goal is to help transform the legal and policy landscape to make our belief a reality.
Join us:
Learn how lawyers, law students, health care providers, and advocates for reproductive justice can get involved with If/When/How.
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Indiginous Women Rising
Indigenous Women Rising is committed to honoring Native & Indigenous People’s inherent right to equitable and culturally safe health options through accessible health education, resources and advocacy.
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In Our Own Voice: National Black Women's Reproductive Justice Agenda
In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda is a national-state partnership that amplifies and lifts the voices of Black women leaders to secure sexual and reproductive justice for Black women, girls, and gender-expansive people. Our eight strategic partners are Black Women for Wellness, Black Women’s Health Imperative, New Voices for Reproductive Justice, SisterLove, Inc. SisterReach, SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW, The Afiya Center and Women With A Vision. Together, we deliver proactive advocacy and policy solutions to address issues at the intersections of race, gender, class, sexual orientation and gender identity within the situational impacts of economics, politics and culture that make up the lived experience of Black women in the United States.
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Jahajee: Indo-Caribbeans for Gender Justice
WHO WE ARE
We are a healing and political home for Indo-Caribbeans who are impacted by gender-based violence. We organize them to speak out and take action — using their voices to make lasting change.
WHY WE DO THIS WORK
There is a long legacy of gender based violence among Indo-Caribbeans, rooted in colonialism. It is everywhere, but covered in silence.
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Momology Maternal Wellness Club (Louisville)
Momology Maternal Wellness Club believes that NO MOTHER should be left behind. We hold space for women to ensure they do not forget about themselves on their motherhood journey. We also pride ourselves in providing inclusive and comprehensive care that supports the whole woman. We are invested in serving, studying and supporting women in exploring their identity and figuring out what motherhood means to them. Along with creating a safe, therapeutic space, MMW Club believes advocacy and social justice are at the center of the work we do, so we partner and create platforms that assist in addressing maternal mental health, reproductive justice and parenting rights.
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National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice
Latina Institute centers and amplifies Latina/x voices to transform the systems and narratives to reclaim our bodies and our lives.
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New Voices for Reproductive Justice
New Voices is an unapologetically Black and queer-led movement organization, dedicated to advancing Reproductive Justice, a framework founded and built specifically for Black women, girls, femmes, and gender-expansive folx.
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Pregnancy Justice
We defend the civil and human rights of pregnant people, focusing on those most likely to be targeted for investigation, arrest, detention, or family separation — poor people, people of color, and people who use drugs.
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Sister Song
SisterSong’s mission is to strengthen and amplify the collective voices of indigenous women and women of color to achieve reproductive justice by eradicating reproductive oppression and securing human rights. -- Website
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TEWA Women United
Through relational-tivity, we embody courageous spaces that center Indigenous women and girls to connect with ancestral knowingness, healing strengths, and lifeways for the wellbeing of all.
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URGE: Unite for Reproductive Justice and Gender Equity
URGE is driven by young leaders. We build infrastructure through campus chapters and Community Activist Networks, where we invite individuals to discover their power and transform it into action. Together, URGE members educate their communities and advocate for local, state, and national policies in solidarity with other justice-focused groups.
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We Testify
We Testify is an organization supporting people who’ve had abortions to share their stories, particularly those of color, those from rural and conservative communities, those who are queer-identified, those with varying abilities and citizenship statuses, and those who needed support when navigating barriers while accessing abortion care. We Testify works with individual abortion storytellers to share their stories, as well as lead campaigns to change the conversation about who has abortion and why, and to address abortion stigma in our communities.
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Women With a Vision
The mission of Women With A Vision is to improve the lives of marginalized women, their families, and communities by addressing the social conditions that hinder their health and well-being. We accomplish this through relentless advocacy, health education, supportive services, and community-based participatory research.
Religious Affiliated
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Catholics for Choice
Catholics for Choice — which serves the pro-choice Catholic majority — encounters, educates, and emboldens people of faith who support reproductive freedom.
Catholics for Choice believes healthcare is a human right and that includes access to abortion.
Our faith calls us to affirm reproductive and religious freedom as essential to Catholic social justice. -- website
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Heart To Grow
We are building a world where all Muslims are safe to exercise self-determination, autonomy, and control over their reproductive lives and sexual wellbeing, in the communities we live, work, and pray. in. We are fighting for a world where nobody is shamed for making the decisions that are right for their bodies, their lives, and their futures.
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Interfaith Alliance Reproductive Justice page
Through advocacy, mobilization and education, we forge powerful alliances among people of diverse faiths and beliefs to build a resilient, inclusive democracy and fulfill America’s promise of religious freedom and civil rights not just for some, but for all.
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Kentucky Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (KRCRC)
We are a non-profit organization, people of faith and conscience, working together with you to direct the moral power of people of faith and conscience to advance reproductive justice in Kentucky. We do this through non-partisan advocacy, education and outreach.
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Religious Community for Reproductive Choice
We are a community of faithful and spiritual people who are committed to fulfilling the sacred task of dismantling and healing religiously-based abortion stigma and shame.
We believe that:
Reproductive decision-making is sacred.
Reproductive freedom is religious freedom.
People of faith protect the freedom to choose.
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Spiritual Alliance of Communities for Reproductive Community (SACRed)
SACReD is a national alliance of multiracial, multifaith, multiethnic, mixed gender and sexual identity religious leaders, congregations, movement organizations, activists, academics, and directly impacted communities collaborating to advance Reproductive Justice through congregational education, culture change, community building, and direct service.
Kentucky and other groups
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Kentucky Health Justice Network
Kentucky Health Justice Network builds the power of Kentuckians to achieve reproductive justice. We support this mission through direct support, education and outreach.
Our work is guided by the reproductive justice framework, developed by women and people of color. We believe reproductive rights are human rights, and that all people should be able to decide if, when, and how to parent. To learn more the history of the reproductive justice framework, visit the SisterSong website.
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ACLU of Kentucky Reproductive Freedom Project
In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down the Webster decision, signaling that states would have greater ability to impose restrictions on access to abortion services. Recognizing the need for full-time staff resources dedicated to pro-choice advocacy work, the ACLU of Kentucky Reproductive Freedom Project (RFP) was founded under the guidance of Suzy Post, then-executive director of the ACLU of Kentucky.
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Kentucky Reproductive Freedom Fund (KYRFF)
The Kentucky Reproductive Freedom Fund is dedicated to maintaining and improving access to contraception and abortion care, through education, policy reform, and advocacy.
