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Remember our video featuring Congressman Ron Wright (R-TX) saying he “absolutely” believes women should be punished for having abortions? Turns out that’s not the end of his terrifying beliefs. Watch our latest video here showing his disdain for people of color.

Pamela joined the Missouri Abortion Fund, in partnership with Left Bank Books, for a virtual event with Diana Greene Foster, author of The Turnaway Study. Foster was in conversation with Pamela Merritt of Reproaction and Dr. Erin King, Executive Director of Hope Clinic for Women in Granite City, Illinois. Listen to a recording of the event here.

A black banner on the top of the image reads in white letters Left Bank Books LBB Presents ONLINE: Diana Greene Foster with Pamela Merritt, Dr. Erin King & Missouri Abortion Fund. Four pictures make up the remainder of the image. Moving from left to right they are a white woman with blue eyes and blond hair wearing a green and black patterned scarf, smiling; a Black woman with purple eyeglasses wearing a purple top smiling; a white woman with a blue and pink watercolor patterned scarf and a blue shirt looking at the camera with a slight smile; a blue background with the words The Turnaway Study Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having – or Being Denied – an Abortion Diana Greene Foster, PhD. In the center of the blue image are two drawings of women with pink faces and brown hair looking away from each other.Have you seen our video featuring Shireen calling out the COVID-unsafe policies pushed by “abortion pill reversal” founder? Check it out here.

Reproaction co-sponsored a webinar panel discussion, alongside the Missouri HIV Justice Coalition and the Well Project, about the struggles around parental rights and discrimination based on HIV status, drug use, and gender identity.

Erin joined the #BelieveInMore post-election event joining reproductive health, rights, and justice leaders to talk about the future of abortion access. Listen to a recording here.

2020 was a tough year, but we were so happy to close it out with our first ever all-virtual full staff retreat. We celebrated our accomplishments with a pizza party and trivia game. Here’s us with our thinking caps on!

A screenshot of a Google Hangout with twelve participants in a grid form, six participants in each row. Participants are smiling and posing with fingers on their chin or temple in traditional ‘thinking’ pose. Save the date for our next Act and Learn webinar, Spreading a Pandemic: Big ‘Pro-Life’ in Action, taking place on Tuesday, January 12, at 3:00 p.m. ET.

On Our Blog

Tenaja wrote about Human Coalition and racism in the fake clinic network. They also covered the intersection of anti-Blackness and patriarchy.  

Reproaction in the News

Erin spoke on To The Contrary discussing women and COVID, women and the vote, and moving past Donald Trump.

Erin also shared her activist story on the RePROS Fight Back podcast.

More anti-choice women have been elected to Congress than ever before. Erin wrote for Rewire.News Group about why there’s nothing feminist about it.

Our self-managed abortion campaign was listed as a reference in this GirlTalkHQ piece on a powerful play about abortion rights.

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Erin, Pamela, Caitlin, Elizabeth, Evonnia, Jessica, Kara, Nataley, Nijeria, Shireen, Tenaja, and the Reproaction team

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