John,

Today is Earth Day, an annual day where people around the globe demonstrate support for environmental protection.

We believe environmental justice and reproductive justice go hand-in-hand.

The connections between environmental justice and reproductive justice are inextricable. At home and around the world, environmental harms are disproportionately borne by Black people, Indigenous people, and people of color. Access to safe drinking water and food, uncontaminated housing and public spaces, and swift action to address climate change are critical to dismantling reproductive oppression and building communities where everyone can thrive.

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The climate crisis is intensifying rapidly and is already having a profound effect on people’s reproductive choices from if and when to have children to where to locate and live. And as abortion access continues to shrink, these decisions become even more pressing.

I also want to say quite clearly that the intersection of environmental justice and reproductive justice does not include population control measures, such as coercing people to use contraceptives or have fewer children in the name of the planet. These arguments always seem to come back to concern about the fertility of Black women, immigrants, and people of color, and are merely white supremacy in self-proclaimed progressive disguise. The number of people on the planet is not the problem; the problem is how capitalist white supremacy callously treats the Earth as disposable for short-term profit.

The fights for the future of the environment and the fight for true reproductive freedom happen side-by-side and are working for the same shared goal.

Sincerely,

Erin Matson
Executive Director, Reproaction

P.S. Environmental justice IS reproductive justice. Give today.

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