What Is the Reproductive Justice Task Force Involved With Today?
Championing Reproductive Freedom Act: On Oct. 2, Governor Murphy and many of our coalition partners (Planned Parenthood, The Thrive Coalition NJ, Cherry Hill Women’s Center, etc.) announced new legislation called The Reproductive Freedom Act. The Reproductive Freedom Act protects and expands access to birth control and pregnancy-related care including abortion by breaking down medically-unnecessary restrictions that only serve to block access to care. It also secures a future that safeguards reproductive care, upholds basic rights and justice, and respects decision-making throughout pregnancy.
Passing the Reproductive Freedom Act will help protect everyone’s ability to receive reproductive health care, from birth control to pregnancy-related care, including safe, appropriate and individually-sensitive abortion.
A Win for Women/People Incarcerated at Edna Mahan Correctional Center for Women: With encouragement/pressure from your emails and calls (Thank You!!), Gov. Murphy mid-September signed Resolution SJR-79/AJR-167 (Greenstein, Gill/Vainieri Huttle, Tucker, Murphy) to create a commission to study sexual assault, misconduct, and harassment by staff against inmates in State correctional facilities.