Points of Unity

Our coalition stands united under the below principles. We see our community as a place of learning, where we honor our differences, challenge assumptions, and meet one another with open minds.

1. We demand reproductive justice for all

We fight for bodily autonomy including but not limited to abortion access, contraception, pregnancy care, access to gender-affirming healthcare, and the right to parent with dignity. 

We utilize the definition of reproductive justice as outlined by the SisterSong collective’s Reproductive Justice framework. 

We oppose all types of reproductive coercion. We believe that policing and the carceral system are forms of state violence composing a deliberate system designed to repress bodily autonomy and revoke reproductive freedom. We recognize that Reproductive Justice requires a Restorative Justice and Transformative Justice framework. 

We recognize that access to reproductive choice is a community responsibility. The only way to ensure reproductive justice for all is to build a mass movement with power that can not be throttled by elite political interests in local, state or federal governments. 

We are in solidarity with the trans community, intersex people, incarcerated people, survivors of sexual and gender-based violence, sex workers, people experiencing homelessness, and undocumented communities.

 2. We are trans and queer-inclusive 

We recognize that reproductive injustice disproportionately affects people needing transition care. We demand gender-affirming healthcare as part of reproductive justice and oppose transphobic legislation. 

We aim to center trans women of color who face the highest rates of reproductive violence.

We reject transphobia, homophobia, and gender- and sexuality-based bigotry.  

3. We believe in centering Anti-Racism

We reject racism, bigotry and discrimination, including religious discrimination, of all kinds.

We recognize that reproductive injustice also disproportionately affects Black, Brown, Indigenous, and migrant communities, and we aim to center those communities in our organizing.

4. We believe in collective community care and alternative systems

We believe healthcare, housing, and childcare should be free and universal , and oppose corporate control of medicine. 

We support labor unions, workplace democracy, and economic justice as key to reproductive freedom.  

5. We believe the fight for reproductive justice is a global struggle

We stand in solidarity with reproductive justice movements across the global South, such as Congo and Sudan, recognizing that imperialism, economic exploitation, and racist border regimes systematically deny communities the right to safe healthcare and bodily autonomy. 

We commit to anti-racism and anti-colonialism as foundational to reproductive justice. We recognize that Zionism is a racist, settler-colonial system that enacts reproductive violence against Palestinians just as imperialism and state violence restrict bodily autonomy for marginalized communities globally.