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The Preservation of Women’s Reproductive Rights

Sunday, January 30 @ 10:30 am - 11:30 am

The Preservation of Women’s Reproductive Rights

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Date:
Sunday, January 30
Time:
10:30 am - 11:30 am
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Join Us:
https://tinyurl.com/ESUCWorship

Venue

East Shore Unitarian Church
12700 SE 32nd Street
Bellevue, WA 98005 United States
Phone
425-747-3780
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Unitarian Universalist women (and men) have long been stalwarts in the fight to make abortion safe and legal. All that is now imperiled. Where to go from here? Sponsored by the Women’s Perspective Team.

UUA Reproductive Justice 2015 Statement of Conscience

As Unitarian Universalists, we embrace the reproductive justice framework, which espouses the human right to have children, not to have children, to parent the children one has in healthy environments and to safeguard bodily autonomy and to express one’s sexuality freely. The reproductive justice movement was founded at a time when the unique range of issues faced by women of color were not addressed by the predominantly white middle class women’s rights and reproductive rights movements nor the predominantly male civil rights movement. Those issues have included forced sterilization, forced contraception, and higher rates of removal of children from families due to accusations of abuse or neglect. These issues, coupled with systemic racism, have frequently made parenting or co-parenting more difficult due to many factors, including but not limited to, discriminatory and unequal implementation of laws and incarceration rates, prohibitions imposed on people after incarceration, unjust immigration policies, and economic insecurity. Learn more about this and the actions you can take here.

How to Attend

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In person participants MUST BE VACCINATED! Read more about the process here.

• To virtually attend, please Zoom in using room number 989 3107 9078, passcode: chalice.
• To phone into the service, call 669-900-6833, Meeting ID: 989 3107 9078.

For those joining virtually, please mute as soon as you enter the room, so everyone can hear. Please note, the services will be recorded, but at this time, there are no plans to share the recording.

More Information

Both virtual and in person services are followed by coffee hour.

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Sermon Text

The sermon was adapted from Sex, Religion, Abortion, and Justice
by Rev. Rob Keithan

You can read the original sermon here.

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Transportation & Parking

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We have several parking lots. Our upper lot, off SE 32nd Street, is closest to our Sanctuary, it has handicap and stroller parking. There is a roundabout for drop-offs. Our lower, main parking lot is also off SE 32nd Street. There are stairs that will lead you up to the Sanctuary. If that lot is full, there is also street parking on 32nd Street.

Accessibility

Learn more about accessibility at East Shore here.

Details

Date:
Sunday, January 30
Time:
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Event Categories:
,
Join Us:
https://tinyurl.com/ESUCWorship

Venue

East Shore Unitarian Church
12700 SE 32nd Street
Bellevue, WA 98005 United States
Phone
425-747-3780
View Venue Website