1. Disability, Dobbs, and a Black Perspective

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I: Roe Was Never Enough
5. Introduction 9
6. 1. Disability, Dobbs, and a Black Perspective 13
7. 2. Colonization, Resistance, and Indigenous Reproductive Justice 19
8. 3. Statement from Advisory Council of the Building the Fire Fund regarding Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization 25
9. 4. Plan C 27
10. 5. Come Hell or High Water: A Patchwork of Community Care in Appalachia 34
11. 6. “We Too Have Abortions”: Centering the Abortion Experiences and Needs of Asian Communities 38
12. 7. How Dobbs Will Deepen the Traumas of Incarcerated Pregnant People 42
13. Part II: Never-Ending Emergency and Never-Ending Fight
14. Introduction 49
15. 8. Performing Abortions after Roe 54
16. 9. From College Campus to Community: A Physician’s Perspective on Abortion and Contraception Access in Restrictive States 59
17. 10. What We Inherit: Foster Youth and the Ongoing Eradication of Our Autonomy 65
18. 11. The Multiple Dangers of Baby Safe Haven Laws 71
19. 12. Reproductive Justice Has the Blueprint for Post-Roe America, but Are We Ready for It? 76
20. 13. Krystale E. Littlejohn Interviews Francine Thompson, the Emma Goldman Clinic, Iowa City 81
21. 14. Sustaining Full-Spectrum Sexual and Reproductive Health Care after Dobbs 89
22. 15. A Reproductive Justice Activist in Kentucky: Under Attack, Fighting Back! 94
23. Part III: Strategic Action for Securing Access
24. Introduction 99
25. 16. Reproductive Justice and the Fight for Queer Liberation: What the Dobbs Ruling Illuminates 105
26. 17. Workers’ Role in Defending Abortion Rights 109
27. 18. Keeping the Faith in Missouri 114
28. 19. Organizing in Pennsylvania 119
29. 20. Protecting Abortion in the Heartland 124
30. 21. A Kansas Prosecutor’s Resistance to the Post-Roe Antiabortion Movement 130
31. 22. Protecting Abortion in Austin 136
32. 23. My Journey to Becoming an Abortion Doula 141
33. 24. Krystale E. Littlejohn Interviews the Founders of Plan C 144
34. 25. Feminist Art as Feminist Activism: An Anti–Crisis Pregnancy Center Exhibit in the Post-Roe Landscape 151
35. Part IV: Fighting at the Frontiers of Criminalization
36. Introduction 161
37. 26. The Digital Battleground in the Fight for Reproductive Rights 166
38. 27. Law Enforcement Discretion for Self-Managed Abortion Helpers 175
39. 28. Preparing Criminal Defense Attorneys to Fight for Reproductive Justice 180
40. 29. What’s Next for Doctors and Patients: Care, Compassion, and Criminalization in a Post-Roe World 185
41. 30. Surveilled, Criminalized, and Deportable: The Disproportional Impacts of Dobbs on Immigrants and the Fight against Reproductive Injustice 192
42. 31. Using Disability and Access Statements to Get Resources to Students in Texas 198
43. Part V: Protecting Abortion Access in the Face of Fascism
44. Introduction 207
45. 32. Let’s Talk about Money and Abortion 212
46. 33. Pre-Dobbs but Post-Roe: Funding Abortion in Louisiana in Early Pandemic Years 218
47. 34. We Take Care of Us: Continuing the Fight for Abortion Access in Post-Dobbs Oklahoma 223
48. 35. Dobbs and Medical Education 228
49. 36. Repro Legal Defense Fund (at If/When/How) 234
50. 37. Employer Abortion Travel Benefits Are Important, but They Aren’t Enough 238
51. 38. Getting People to Abortion Care, Whatever It Takes 242
52. 39. Jill Filipovic Interviews Rebecca Gomperts 248
53. Part VI: Resisting Religious Tyranny
54. Introduction 257
55. 40. The Dobbs Decision, God, and Moral Conscience 261
56. 41. Open Letter from Seven Muslim American Organizations 267
57. 42. The Torah of Abortion Justice 271
58. 43. What Everyone Gets Wrong about Evangelicals and Abortion 276
59. 44. Abortion and Faith in Florida 282
60. Part VII: Envisioning the Future
61. Introduction 287
62. 45. Even with Contraception, People Need and Must Have Access to Abortion 292
63. 46. Building Gender Equity by Engaging Men in Reproductive Responsibility 296
64. 47. Shifting Abortion Public Opinion: A Case Study in Complexity, Compassion, and the Role of Doctors’ Voices 301
65. 48. Rejecting the Abortion Debate Binary Is Essential to Moving toward Reproductive Justice 307
66. 49. Dobbs, Democracy, and Distortion 312
67. 50. The Power of Discernment 316
68. 51. A Black Abortion Provider’s Perspective on Post-Roe America 322
69. 52. Reproductive Justice Futurism: Trust Black Women 325
70. Notes 333
71. References 347
72. About the Editors 350
73. About the Contributors 351
74. Index 359