Project 2025: The Impact on Black Women: Project 2025 will have devastatingly harmful impacts to Reproductive Justice and American society at large. Perhaps most impactful to this issue is Project 2025’s assault on REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE.
While attention is being paid to Project 2025’s overall goals and harms, little of that attention is focused specifically on the impact on Black communities, low-income communities, and other marginalized groups. The following analysis by In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda provides an overview of the goals of Project 2025 and its harmful impact on Reproductive Justice.
State Abortion Bans Threaten Nearly Seven Million Black Women: An issue brief on the threats that nearly 7 million Black women – 57 percent of all Black women of reproductive age – face in the 26 states that have banned or are likely to ban abortion following the Supreme Court’s overturn of federal abortion rights in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
The State Legislator Reproductive Justice Guide is specifically crafted for state legislators as a vital resource for navigating the Reproductive Justice framework. The guide:
- Introduces the Reproductive Justice framework, including how to effectively employ it in policymaking and legislative work.
- Orients legislators to In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda, including the work of our partners.
- Highlights critical state Reproductive Justice policy issues for consideration for prioritizing.
Offers key messaging approaches to support legislators in advancing Reproductive Justice.
