The Preservation of Women’s Reproductive Rights

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.