Beyond abortion rights: Reproductive justice takes a broader view
Toni McClendon has fought for reproductive and minority rights in Pittsburgh for decades. But she has long eschewed the labels “pro-choice” and “pro-life” as divisive, limiting and above all failing to address what many Black women experience in America’s shrill reproduction debate.
Then, when she was asked to join Black women from the Rust Belt for the March for Women’s Lives in Washington in 2004, she found “reproductive justice,” a movement that went beyond that simple binary to cooperate with allies on a host of issues facing minorities – and one that has come to the fore as American women wait to see if Roe v. Wade will be rolled back. Ms. McClendon returned home from the march to become one of the
