If we had 51% women in Congress, do you think we’d be debating access to contraception?
As women of color, our rights to safe and voluntary sex, birth control and motherhood are increasingly restricted, controlled and criminalized. Punitive welfare policies dictate families’ lives. Coercive programs target low income and women of color for high risk contraceptives. New laws and policies make abortion access more difficult and costly. These developments devalue our human rights and harm our ability to sustain our families, our communities, and our lives. Attacks on women’s health constitute unethical attempts to control women’s lives and dictate who among us can have, keep, and raise children. We strongly oppose demographically driven population policies that do not ensure safe and secure environments for all women.
Sex, Lies and Birth Control: What You Need To Know About Your Birth Control Campaign, By the Committee on Women, Population and the Environment (CWPE)
(via reproductivejusticenow)