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Youth and Reproductive Justice

Category : Health, Wellness, Fitness

Type: Public Membership
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Founded: Mar 6, 2007 1:27 PM
Location: Washington
Washington DC-US
Member(s): 152

This group exists to talk about the rising growth in attacks on young people's access to reproductive and sexual health care. Its here for activists to discuss these issues, begin forming campaigns, share ideas and tactics, and generally promote education, activism, and learning. Post your pictures, events, ideas, videos, the sky is the limit... this is here for you!

Being an activist 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
* fair 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 activist 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.
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