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Join activists from across the country on the EVE of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago -- the first protest vs. the DNC as the delegates and media arrive in downtown Chicago!

We demand national legislation to expand access to abortion and reproductive health care, support families, and defend the rights of trans and queer people. We also demand an end to U.S. funds going to genocide, and an immediate and lasting ceasefire in Palestine so all Palestinians can live in peace and dignity with bodily autonomy and reproductive justice.

Meeting The Needs of Individuals, Families, and Communities

People’s basic needs must be met — things like food and housing, health care and education, clean air and childcare. First and foremost, our government should help people meet their basic needs.
Decisions about whether and when to grow our families should not be coerced by our circumstances — by poverty, lack of infrastructure or accommodation, inadequate health care, uncertainty about the safety of our environment, etc.

Stop Responding with Violence and Harm

State violence and punishment cannot solve our problems. We cannot police, prosecute, and jail our way out of systemic failures to meet people’s needs. Far too many state institutions punish people because they’re poor, or struggle with substance use, or because they’re mentally ill, or just because they’re Black. Government responses in the forms of incarceration, police violence, or policies that lead to denial of of critical resources must be reversed and rejected.

No Compromising on Bodily Autonomy

Our Constitution wasn’t written for Black and brown bodies, indigenous bodies, bodies capable of pregnancy, queer bodies, disabled bodies, trans bodies, sex working bodies, substance-using bodies, bodies that can’t work, or bodies from across borders. Our bodies are not safe outside of the unjust laws designed to exclude them. This cannot be fixed with a compromise or half-measures.

We reject any political compromises on our bodily autonomy. We won’t settle for “reasonable” limits on abortion, more benevolent family separation, or gender-affirming care only for some. There is no middle ground here — people experience deprivations of liberty and sovereignty absolutely. They must be rejected absolutely.

Palestinian Liberation is Reproductive Justice

Reproductive justice includes ending the genocide in Palestine. As US citizens it is our duty to call on our own government to end the funding of weapons to Israel that enable this nightmare to continue and robs us of funds at home. As feminists and reproductive justice activists, we must also highlight a horrific aspect of the war on Palestinians: it is a war against women and children, who suffer in uniquely cruel ways.

Palestinian women and children make up 70% of those killed by Israeli actions. In Gaza’s population of 2.3 million, approximately 572,000 are women and girls of reproductive age, all of whom require access to vital reproductive health services. Among them, 50,000 pregnant women are caught in this conflict, with thousands facing imminent childbirth under dire circumstances. Gendered and sexual violence are integral to settler colonialism, apartheid, and genocide, all of which are sustained by patriarchy, white supremacy, and colonialism.

The evidence is clear: the Israeli government's actions constitute genocide, aiming to destroy the lives of Palestinians across generations. As feminists and reproductive justice activists, we unequivocally demand an end to the genocide, destruction, and dispossession in Gaza. Our movement is grounded in the belief that every individual deserves the right to live in peace, dignity, and with full reproductive and bodily autonomy. We must advocate for both immediate and historical justice for the Palestinian people, determined and controlled by Palestinians, striving towards a future where these rights are universally upheld.