We demand federal action to expand access to abortion and reproductive health care, support families, and defend the rights of trans and queer people.

We demand an end to reproductive genocide, an end to U.S. arms exports to Israel, and an immediate and lasting ceasefire in Palestine so all Palestinians can live in freedom and dignity with bodily autonomy and reproductive justice.


Meeting The Needs of Individuals, Families, and Communities

People’s basic needs must be met — things like food and housing, health care and education, clean air and childcare. First and foremost, our government should help people meet their basic needs. Decisions about whether and when to grow our families should not be coerced by our circumstances — by poverty, lack of infrastructure or accommodation, inadequate health care, uncertainty about the safety of our environment, etc.

Stop Responding with Violence and Harm

State violence and punishment cannot solve our problems. We cannot police, prosecute, and jail our way out of systemic failures to meet people’s needs. Far too many state institutions punish people because they’re poor, or struggle with substance use, or because they’re mentally ill, or just because they’re Black. Government responses in the forms of incarceration, police violence, or policies that lead to denial of of critical resources must be reversed and rejected.

No Compromising on Bodily Autonomy

Our Constitution wasn’t written for Black and brown bodies, indigenous bodies, bodies capable of pregnancy, queer bodies, disabled bodies, trans bodies, sex working bodies, substance-using bodies, bodies that can’t work, or bodies from across borders. Our bodies are not safe outside of the unjust laws designed to exclude them. This cannot be fixed with a compromise or half-measures.

We reject any political compromises on our bodily autonomy. We won’t settle for “reasonable” limits on abortion, more benevolent family separation, or gender-affirming care only for some. There is no middle ground here — people experience deprivations of liberty and sovereignty absolutely. They must be rejected absolutely.

Palestinian Liberation is Reproductive Justice

From The Palestinian Feminist Collective Condemns Reproductive Genocide in Gaza:

“Reproductive Justice upholds the right to bodily autonomy for individuals, families, and communities in all decision-making and practices related to sex and reproduction including the right to have or not have children; the right to give birth free from oppression, exploitation, and violence; and the right to create and raise families in safe and healthy environments with sustainable access to food, water, electricity, and medical treatment. 

Reproductive genocide refers to the policies, discourses, and practices that delimit, restrict, target, or diminish the life-giving capacities, choices, access, short-term health, long-term health, and life chances of communities made vulnerable by systemic military violence and occupation, besiegement, settler colonialism, and/or imperial warfare. Reproductive genocide includes mass incarceration; psychological warfare; collective punishment; ethnic cleansing; gendered and sexual violence of women and girls by an occupying state or force; gendered and sexual violence of men and boys by an occupying state or force; and forced conditions of unlivability. It also includes imprisonment and bodily desecration (for the living and dead).”

Reproductive justice inherently includes ending the reproductive genocide in Palestine. As U.S. citizens, it is our duty to call on our own government to end the funding of weapons to Israel that enable this nightmare to continue and robs us of funds at home. As feminists and reproductive justice activists, we must also highlight a horrific aspect of the war on Palestinians: it is a war against women and children, who suffer in uniquely cruel ways. 

Palestinian women and children make up 70% of those killed by Israeli actions. In Gaza’s population of 2.3 million, approximately 572,000 are women and girls of reproductive age, all of whom require access to vital reproductive health services. Among them, 50,000 pregnant women are caught in this conflict, with thousands facing imminent childbirth under dire circumstances. Gendered and sexual violence are integral to settler colonialism, apartheid, and genocide, all of which are sustained by patriarchy, white supremacy, and colonialism.

The evidence is clear: the Israeli government's actions are genocidal, and have been since long before October 7, aiming to destroy the lives of Palestinians across generations. As feminists and reproductive justice activists, we unequivocally demand an end to the genocide, destruction, and dispossession in Gaza. Our movement is grounded in the belief that every individual deserves the right to live in peace, dignity, and with full reproductive and bodily autonomy. We must advocate for both immediate and historical justice for the Palestinian people, determined and controlled by Palestinians, striving towards a future where these rights are universally upheld.

We Demand:

Accessible, affordable abortion care with no gestational bans or viability limits
↳ ABORTION JUSTICE ACT

Increased access to gender affirming care and protection of the rights of LGBTQ+ people
↳ EQUALITY ACT

Address racial and ethnic disparities in maternal and child health outcomes
↳ MOMNIBUS

Repeal the Hyde Amendment to ensure abortion coverage through public health insurance
↳ EACH ACT

Universal healthcare, including prenatal, maternal, and infant care, and free contraceptive care
↳ MEDICARE FOR ALL ACT

Hold anti-abortion “crisis pregnancy centers” (fake clinics) accountable for misinformation, denial of care to pregnant people seeking abortions, and pressure to not seek the care they need 
↳ SAD ACT

Labor protections for all workers including paid family and sick leave and livable wage for all
↳ RAISE THE WAGE ACT and FAMILY ACT

End the family policing system, redirect resources toward supporting parents and families instead of surveilling and separating them
↳ REPEAL CAPTA

Resources for young people and families including universal child care, increased funding for public education, and cancel student loan debt

A permanent ceasefire in Gaza, suspension of US military aid to Israel, and increased humanitarian aid to Gaza

Protect civilians, deliver humanitarian assistance, and promote a ceasefire in Sudan

We demand investment in communities by funding jobs, education and housing and divesting from prisons, policing, and genocidal wars