Reproductive Justice Team

Reproductive justice encompasses racial equality, economic security for families, contraception access, sex education, gender equality, and abortion rights and access. Huge changes are moving through the nation right now – abortion rights are being squelched in half of the country, while the other half girds to ensure access to reproductive healthcare for all who need it.


For more information contact Mike Sabicnski. 

Reproductive Justice and Unitarian Universalists

As Unitarian Universalists we advocate for reproductive rights:

• The right to have children, including freedom from coerced sterilization and contraception
• The right not to have children, including access to contraception and abortion
• The right to quality reproductive healthcare
• The right to self-determination regarding one’s body and sexuality, free from oppression and shame
• The right to education and access, in order to make free and informed reproductive choices

What is more, we advocate for reproductive justice, which is broader than reproductive rights. Reproductive justice is the framework created by women of color to integrate reproductive rights with other social justice movements. It recognizes that women of color have faced a history of systemic racism and discrimination, unjust immigration policies, economic insecurity, forced sterilization, forced contraception, and lack of access to healthcare.

The reproductive justice movement envisions the liberation of people of all genders, sexual orientations, gender identities, abilities, ages, classes, and cultural and racial identities. We seek for everyone:

• Accurate information about sexuality and reproduction
• Control of personal reproductive decisions
• High quality, comprehensive medical and reproductive health care
• Paid parental leave
• Affordable childcare
• Living wages
• Safe and supported housing
• Access to voting and the political process
• Affordable legal representation
• Fair immigration policies
• The absence of individual and institutional violence



Achieving these goals requires building coalitions with allied communities, organizing, communicating our values and acting on them with persistence.

Your Voice Counts

Take charge and own a piece of the Reproductive Justice Team! Many courses of action are open to you, including but not limited to:



• Plan a panel event
• Write op-eds (opinion articles)
• Organize a march or demonstration
• Research legislation
• Host a film party or book discussion group
• Develop a community fundraiser for abortion access
• Promote education on self-managed abortions
• Help visitors coming to town for reproductive healthcare