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Welcome to Repro Roundup, a monthly update from #VOTEPROCHOICE on the status of reproductive freedom.
We regularly highlight reproductive freedom action alerts, but it's also critical that we emphasize the impact of structural racism and police brutality on our mission for full bodily autonomy.
Institutional racism and targeted legislation against Black communities means that Black patients are more likely to face a forced pregnancy in the absence of accessible reproductive healthcare. Additionally, reproductive freedom cannot be realized until every mother and parent can freely raise their children without the threat of racially-targeted police brutality.
Reproductive freedom requires not only protecting equitable access to healthcare services, but also ending state-sanctioned police violence across the country.
We must be free to govern our own bodies and families.
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