Health and Reproductive Justice
For more than thirty years, Legal Voice has been a leader in advancing and protecting women's rights to health care and reproductive freedom—rights that have long been subject to political debate and laws that harm women. For some women, the right to be a mother is threatened by coercive laws that try to limit the number of children a woman on welfare can have, or even force her to undergo sterilization. For others, the right to decide not to have a child is threatened by laws that limit access to health care, including contraception and abortion. And laws related to issues like immigration, public assistance, and drug policy, among others, frequently result in diminished or no access to health care, as well as limits on women's autonomy and reproductive freedom, especially for immigrant women and women of color.
Current Action
- Convening and working with the Northwest Reproductive Justice Collaborative.
- Working to stop prisons and jails from shackling pregnant women who are in labor.
- Stopping health care providers from imposing their personal beliefs on patients.
- Ensuring that emergency rooms in Washington State give emergency contraception to rape victims.
- Arming women with knowledge about the deceptive tactics of some "crisis pregnancy centers."
- Working to ensure that all patients, including pregnant women, receive complete and accurate medical information so they can make informed health care decisions.
- Fighting for young people's access to inclusive, scientifically accurate sexual education.
- Developing legal strategies to help rape survivors when the perpetrator claims parental rights over the child resulting from rape.
Women's rights. Nothing less.
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