A Liberatory Vision for Reproductive Justice

Sep 25, 2024

Former president Donald Trump recently women voters that if he is reelected, they won鈥檛鈥渂e thinking about abortion鈥� because they 鈥渨ill be protected.鈥� He added, 鈥淚 will be your protector.鈥� But Trump has also voters that he appointed three anti-abortion Supreme Court justices during his first term, who helped decimate the constitutional right to an abortion that had been settled law for more than 50 years via Roe v. Wade.

The extremist Heritage Foundation, which hopes for a Trump presidency, has outlined its anti-abortion vision in Project 2025, a mandate that seeks to restrict access to abortion and reproductive care even more via a nationwide abortion ban. Its authors also propose from every 鈥渇ederal rule, agency regulation, contract, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists.鈥�

What would a progressive vision of reproductive justice look like instead? As part of a new initiative at YES! called , Renee Bracey Sherman answers that question in conversation with YES! Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on YES! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali. Sherman is a reproductive justice activist and co-author with Regina Mahone of the new book .

Sonali Kolhatkar joined YES! in summer 2021, building on a long and decorated career in broadcast and print journalism. She is an award-winning multimedia journalist, and host and creator of聽YES! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali, a nationally syndicated television and radio program airing on Free Speech TV and dozens of independent and community radio stations. She is also Senior Correspondent with the Independent 无码视频 Institute鈥檚 Economy for All project where she writes a weekly column. She is the author of聽Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice聽(2023) and聽Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence聽(2005). Her forthcoming book is called聽Talking About Abolition聽(Seven Stories Press, 2025). Sonali is co-director of the nonprofit group, Afghan Women鈥檚 Mission which she helped to co-found in 2000. She has a Master鈥檚 in Astronomy from the University of Hawai鈥檌, and two undergraduate degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin. Sonali reflects on 鈥淢y Journey From Astrophysicist to Radio Host鈥� in her 2014聽聽of the same name.