Reproductive Justice

For my article I decided to choice http://www.sistersong.net/reproductive_justice.html “Sister Song.” I really liked this website because it gave reasons to how they were helping women. They as a group are mobilizing by bringing women of color together, encouraging our collective sustainability through mentoring and self-help, providing a framework that resonates with our lived experience, and organizing and mobilizing to affect change. I like what they stand for. Reproductive Justice is the complete physical, mental, spiritual, political, economic, and social well-being of women and girls, and will be achieved when women and girls have the economic, social and political power and resources to make healthy decisions about our bodies, sexuality and reproduction for ourselves, our families and our communities in all areas of our lives. This group tries to make this come true by making changes on the individual, family, community, and institutional levels to end all forms of oppression, including forces that deprive us of self-determination and control over our bodies, and limit our reproductive choices. They are very passionate about this. Since last class we were talking about all of this in-depth I liked hearing their side of things. We as a population need to be able to mobilize reproductive justice. We also as a whole need to help women who do not know what reproductive justice. I never knew what it meant until I took my first women’s studies class. I always knew I had rights and that “no” means no but I never knew there was much more to it.