Jessica Arons
@jrarons
Jessica Arons, she/her, repro policy expert and activist, currently at the ACLU. Intermittent tweeter. Views expressed here are my own.
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https://www.aclu.org/news/by/jessica-arons/ 04-11-2010 21:10:57
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Yall Mississippi Reproductive Freedom Fund will be closed for funding the month of August. I'm sincerely hoping we are able to raise some money during this time because fam it's getting bad. I won't close our org but I'm honestly looking at downsizing programs. Twitters downfall has hurt us a lot.
Here's how to support Mississippi Reproductive Freedom Fund We need diapers very badly. We also have a community baby shower coming up and need items like cribs, car seats, ect for the 5 moms. All these items are on our wishlist.
There's been much gaslighting & moderate justifying of the new Florida social studies standards, people stating the "clarifications" were designed to show Black resilience, or were just "facts." So, I thought I'd compare the African-American history standards to the Holocaust's.
Did you know that 38 states have feticide laws that were originally designed to protect pregnant people from violence, but have often been co-opted by anti-abortion advocates to criminalize them? Pregnancy Justice | @pregnancyjust.bsky.social is fighting back! jezebel.com/meet-the-woman…
This from my friend Dorothy Roberts on how RICO charges have been leveraged against Black women, including by Guiliani in NY. The 1980s & 90s were replete w/ cases of Black moms & girlfriends losing their freedom and children for far less than the Georgia RICO charges. 👇🏿