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Join Jenny Brown, Amelia Bonow and Marie Solis for a conversation on abortion access during the pandemic and how to learn from the history of organizing for abortion to support current movements for reproductive freedom.
Abortion access has been imperiled to hardly existent for many people living in conservative states. Now some states are using the pandemic as an excuse to label abortion care as "non-essential" and ban or resistrict it even further. What is the current state of abortion access around the country? How can activists challenge these restrictions and build a movement for free and accessible abortion care? How has the abortion pill changed the way people receive care and how can activists organize for it to be more accessible?
Jenny Brown is author of Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now (Verso). She was a leader in the fight to get the morning-after pill over the counter in the US and a plaintiff in the winning lawsuit. While editor at Labor Notes magazine, she coauthored How to Jump-Start Your Union: Lessons from the Chicago Teachers. She writes, teaches, and organizes with the feminist group National Women’s Liberation, and is the author of Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work (PM Press).
Amelia Bonow is the Founding Director of #ShoutYourAbortion, a movement dedicated to broadening the existing cultural discourse around abortion. In 2015, Bonow’s abortion disclosure inspired a viral outpouring of abortion stories on social media, receiving front page coverage from The New York Times, LA Times, as well as The New Yorker, ABC’s Nightline, The BBC, Al Jazeera, and CNN.
Marie Solis is a staff writer at VICE, with a focus on abortion pills and reproductive health. She was previously a politics writer at Newsweek, and has written for The Nation, Teen Vogue, Glamour, The Awl, and more.
Co-sponsored by Verso Books, PM Press, National Women's Liberation, Shout Your Abortion, NYC DSA Socialist Feminists and NYC For Abortion Rights.
Verso Books has 50% off all print books and 80% off all ebooks until May 24th. Lots of our radical publishing friends also have incredible discounts on their books at the moment: take a look on the Left Book Club website.
Join Jenny Brown, Amelia Bonow and Marie Solis for a conversation on abortion access during the pandemic and how to learn from the history of organizing for abortion to support current movements for reproductive freedom.
Abortion access has been imperiled to hardly existent for many people living in conservative states. Now some states are using the pandemic as an excuse to label abortion care as "non-essential" and ban or resistrict it even further. What is the current state of abortion access around the country? How can activists challenge these restrictions and build a movement for free and accessible abortion care? How has the abortion pill changed the way people receive care and how can activists organize for it to be more accessible?
Jenny Brown is author of Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now (Verso). She was a leader in the fight to get the morning-after pill over the counter in the US and a plaintiff in the winning lawsuit. While editor at Labor Notes magazine, she coauthored How to Jump-Start Your Union: Lessons from the Chicago Teachers. She writes, teaches, and organizes with the feminist group National Women’s Liberation, and is the author of Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work (PM Press).
Amelia Bonow is the Founding Director of #ShoutYourAbortion, a movement dedicated to broadening the existing cultural discourse around abortion. In 2015, Bonow’s abortion disclosure inspired a viral outpouring of abortion stories on social media, receiving front page coverage from The New York Times, LA Times, as well as The New Yorker, ABC’s Nightline, The BBC, Al Jazeera, and CNN.
Marie Solis is a staff writer at VICE, with a focus on abortion pills and reproductive health. She was previously a politics writer at Newsweek, and has written for The Nation, Teen Vogue, Glamour, The Awl, and more.
Co-sponsored by Verso Books, PM Press, National Women's Liberation, Shout Your Abortion, NYC DSA Socialist Feminists and NYC For Abortion Rights.
Verso Books has 50% off all print books and 80% off all ebooks until May 24th. Lots of our radical publishing friends also have incredible discounts on their books at the moment: take a look on the Left Book Club website.
