Mission Statement
Our mission is to inform, advocate, and protect people’s rights to safe and healthy reproductive services and to maintain a future in which all people’s rights are respected. Being an advocate for reproductive justice includes:
- preventative measures such as support for responsible sex education
- access to birth control and emergency contraception
- assuring maternal and paternal leave
- affordable child care services
- access to affordable pre-natal and post-pregnancy care services
- medicaid and welfare reform
- title x funding reform
- immigration law reform
- economic reform
- environmental reform
- transnational women’s rights
- access to information about sex
- options, looking beyond the bi-gendered system
- access to reproductive health care services such as AIDS/HIV and STI testing as well as well-person exams
- access to medically accurate information and the service of abortion.
Each advocate feels differently about which issues to address and disclude according to her/his own personal beliefs but every reproductive justice activist believes that it is not in the power of the government to decide what a woman, man, or transgendered person can do with their own bodies and their own lives.
Pro-choice is NOT ANTI-RELIGION or PRO-ABORTION. Pro-Choice means CHOICE. However, we must realise that not every person has a choice, and therefore Students for Reproductive Rights firmly supports the human rights framework of reproductive justice.
Click here to view Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice’s 2005 Paper on Reproductive Justice.
Trackback this post | Subscribe to the comments via RSS Feed