Being Well While Wintering
During a season of political chaos and a global pandemic, we know it's easy to absorb the news and the energy around us...
Sexual and Reproductive health, rights and justice: A Collaboration
The Blueprint for Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice is an extensive policy agenda for the new administration to advance sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice (SRHRJ) in the United States and around the world. The Blueprint was…
Black women denounce U.S. Supreme Court medication abortion decision
Statement by In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda President Marcela Howell WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling that reinstates requirements that women seeking medication abortions must do so in-person, reversing a lower…
Support Black communities during the COVID-19 pandemic this #GIVINGTUESDAY
Be sure to include In Our Own Voice on your #GIVINGTUESDAY list. WASHINGTON — In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda, a national/state partnership to lift up the voices of Black women, femmes and girls is encouraging…
Black women Welcome National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice’s New Executive Director
Statement of In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda WASHINGTON — Recently, the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice announced that Guadalupe ‘Lupe’ Rodriguez would assume the role of executive director. In Our Own Voice: National Black…
Keep an Eye on the Courts
While many people are focused on the election results, we urge you to keep an eye on the courts. A few weeks after the rushed confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett and amid the election, the Supreme Court began its new term…
Black women reject confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to U.S. Supreme Court
WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Senate confirmed Amy Coney Barrett’s appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda President and CEO Marcela Howell issued the following statement in response: “In the crudest…
7 Inspiring Voter Plans
We just wrapped up our Reproductive Justice Week of Action. We asked Black women across the country to share their voter plan for the November election on their social media platforms. What they shared left us in awe of the…
What the Loss of Ruth Bader Ginsburg Means to Us
Vice President of Government Affairs Michelle Batchelor joins President and CEO of Black Women’s Health Imperative Linda Goler Blount on Black and Well TV to discuss the continuing fight for Reproductive Justice in the midst of a U.S. Supreme Court…
Marcela Howell on Physicians’ Role in Reproductive Justice
Founder and President Marcela Howell joins Montefiore Medical Center’s Chelsea Brown and Payal Patel to discuss Reproductive Justice and how it can and should be applied by family medicine physicians. Watch their discussion below: