"K-Dramas tell a story that the laws and the news do not: The old, hierarchical views haven’t evolved alongside socioeconomic progress, and this has left women and children miserable. Culturally, South Korea has achieved the paradoxical status of unassailable cool with absolutely no chill."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/opinion/k-drama-birthrate-crisis.html
#television #streaming #kdrama #culture #FamilyPlanning #mothers #children #families #competition #ReproductiveJustice #pregnancy
"Smith’s mother said her daughter had to stay on life support until she gave birth because of Georgia’s six-week abortion ban, which has narrow exceptions for rape, incest, or the life or health of the pregnant person. Smith was nine weeks pregnant when she was declared brain-dead.
Smith’s mother told local news that the baby weighs 1 pound and 13 ounces and will require care in the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit."
https://19thnews.org/2025/06/adriana-smith-georgia-brain-dead-pregnant-woman-baby/
If you're not a fan of capitalism...
If you're outraged by the separation of immigrant families...
Are you also speaking up about the adoption industry that commodifies children and transfers them primarily from women without means to wealthier families?
If you understand the problems associated with international and transracial adoption, do you extend your concern to transferring children between families for reasons of social status and class ("opportunity")?
Did you know that the vast majority of women denied abortions choose to parent their "unwanted" children rather than transferring those children to other families?
If you still think adoption is a good "solution" to the problem of "unwanted pregnancies" (aka lack of financial resources and social safety net, primarily), it's time to update your understanding.
Adoption’s warm, fuzzy reputation doesn’t hold up to reality
#adoption #capitalism #FamilySeparation #ReproductiveJustice #SocialJustice #USA
"The Illinois secretary of state on Thursday asked for an investigation into a suburban Chicago police department after learning that it violated state law by sharing data from automatic license-plate readers with a Texas sheriff seeking a woman who had an abortion."
#ReproductiveHealth #ReproductiveJustice #pregnancy #abortion #data #privacy #LicensePlates #surveillance #technology
"But doctors, attorneys and policy experts say that the laws being enacted will not solve the problems health providers have been forced to navigate since the end of Roe: The risk of being punished has deterred physicians, hospitals and health systems from providing consistent care, even when it is needed."
https://19thnews.org/2025/06/state-abortion-ban-laws-clarifications-doctors/
#healthcare #ReproductiveHealth #ReproductiveJustice #pregnancy #abortion #texas #kentucky #tennessee #georgia
Police in UK can now take women's phones and check their period tracking app
Several women's health and safety organisations have spoken out against the 'shocking' new guidance, vowing to 'aggressively challenge' it
"New guidance in the UK has handed British police the power to trawl through women's phones if they suspect said individual has undergone an illegal abortion.
As per an announcement made by the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) last month, officers investigating the causes of stillbirths, miscarriages and unexpected pregnancy losses will now be permitted access to check menstrual cycle tracking apps.
The alleged aim of the incoming procedure is to 'establish a woman’s knowledge and intention in relation to the pregnancy.'"
Funny how the conclusions drawn from these reports never include "Oh, the problem is capitalism."
"Roughly 40 percent of respondents cited economic barriers – such as the costs of raising children, job insecurity and expensive housing – as the main reason for having fewer children"
“Governments may need to tax working people more or take on more debt...” [professor of social statistics and demography] Wisniowski noted."
More States Consider Curbing Drug Testing at Childbirth
A growing number of states are considering legislation to set up protections for patients who might be drug tested when they give birth. Three of the bills were introduced following an investigative series by The Marshall Project and Reveal that exposed the harms of drug testing at childbirth — including how many patients are often […]
A Doctor’s Impassioned Defense of Later Abortions
Dr. Shelley Sella kept a journal from the very first day she got on a plane to go work for George Tiller, the third-trimester abortion provider who was assassinated in 2009. As the first woman to openly provide third-trimester abortions in the US, she spent nearly 20 years commuting from her home in California to […]
https://voices.murica.website/madison-pauly/a-doctors-impassioned-defense-of-later-abortions/
She Got an Abortion. So A Texas Cop Used 83,000 Cameras to Track Her Down.
#SurveillanceTechnologies #Street-LevelSurveillance #ReproductiveJustice
Forget Dobbs—The Personhood Movement Wants Much More
To hear people in the anti-abortion movement tell it, the idea that human personhood begins at fertilization is as old as the Bible. But as abortion historian Mary Ziegler writes in her latest book, Personhood: The New Civil War Over Reproduction, the legal movement for fetal personhood only dates from the 1960s, when anti-abortion activists […]
https://voices.murica.website/nina-martin/forget-dobbs-the-personhood-movement-wants-much-more/
Experts say the closures indicate that #financial & operational challenges, rather than future #legal bans, may be the biggest threats to #abortion access in states whose #laws still protect it.
"These states that we have touted as being really the best kind of versions of our vision for #ReproductiveJustice, they too struggle w/problems," said Erin Grant, a co-exec dir of the #AbortionCare Network, a national membership org for independent clinics.
Christian Fascist Youngkin abuses his power with government intrusion in women's lives. Vetoed contraception, and Confederate tax exemption bills again
#FascistGlennYoungkin #ReproductiveJustice
#VirginiaForcedBirthState https://www.dcnewsnow.com/news/local-news/virginia/youngkin-vetoes-contraception-confederate-tax-exemption-bills-signs-other-bipartisan-measures/
Podcast Episode: Digital Autonomy for Bodily Autonomy
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/podcast-episode-digital-autonomy-bodily-autonomy
Texas’s War on Abortion Is Now a War on Free Speech
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/texass-war-abortion-now-war-free-speech
Joining this space to connect around leadership, equity, and systems change.
I’m Harry Hawkins (he/him), Director of Culture & Equity at Planned Parenthood of Michigan. I lead strategies that shape culture, drive inclusion, and help people thrive.
I lead with strategy—but move with soul. If you’re building something better, I’m glad we crossed paths.
Adding for the people in the back ... #Trans #rights are #humanRights.
Raise your hand if you really want to let government tell some (trans) people what they can and cannot do with their own bodies.
Okay, keep those hands up so the #ReproductiveJustice folks know who you are.
