Reproductive Justice part 2: Reproductive 101, Deconstructing the current anti-abortion efforts targeting Black women; also, doulas and midwives.
Reproductive Justice: 101
Loretta Ross of SisterSong on “Reproductive Justice 101” Part 1
Loretta Ross of SisterSong: Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective, gives a lecture on “Reproductive Justice 101” in Miami during June of 2008, sponsored by Women’s Fund of Miami and Mi Lola. Check out their website at http://sistersong.net/
Loretta Ross of SisterSong on “Reproductive Justice 101” Part 2
Loretta Ross of SisterSong: Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective, gives a lecture on “Reproductive Justice 101” in Miami during June of 2008, sponsored by Women’s Fund of Miami and Mi Lola. Check out their website at http://sistersong.net/
Reproductive Justice: Abortion
Loretta Ross: The Economic and Racial Dynamics of Abortion
Loretta Ross, reproductive justice and human rights activist, talks about the racial and economic dynamics of abortion, STDs, teen pregnancy and health care.
The 2010 Documentary “The Abortion Conspiracy
Abortion Conspiracy Part 1: The Billboard Campaign
Episode Two of a five part series looking at a right wing conspiracy theory that abortion in communities of color is genocide. This video covers Pro Life Freedom Rides staged by Priests for Life in the summer of 2010.
Abortion Conspiracy Episode 3: This video examines a right wing documentary which alleges that abortion in the African American community is genocide. Through fear mongoring and guilt by association, it tires to make the case that this is a conspiracy led by Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood.
Abortion Conspiracy Part 4: Racial Uplift
Part 4 of a five part series on the right wing effort to portray abortion as genocide in communities of color. This episode profiles several African Americans who work in the field of reproductive health: an abortion provider, a volunteer at a hotline which offers counseling and two escorts at an abortion clinic in the south.
Abortion Conspiracy Part 5 The Mid Term Elections
One of the strategies of the right wing conspiracy theory that abortion amounts to genocide in the African American community is to try to fragment the Democratic base in the 2010 mid term elections. This episode asks if this strategy will have any effect.
2010: Are Black Children an ‘Endangered Species’? (The shorter version)
Reproductive Rights: Birth
Atlanta: The Doula Story
This video profiles Perez Ridley, a Doula in Atlanta, GA, who counsels pregnant teens on behalf of the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention.
Northwest Doula Conference 2010
Shafia M. Monroe – Certified Midwife, founder and president of International Center for Traditional Childbearing – presenter on Full Circle Birth Traditions
The Legacy of the Black Midwife Part 1/6
The Legacy of the Black Midwife Part 2/6
The Legacy of the Black Midwife Part 3/6
The Legacy of the Black Midwife Part 4/6