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rePROs Fight Back
rePROs Fight Back, a multi-award winning podcast, does-dives into reproductive health, rights, and justice issues like abortion, birth control, sex education, women’s rights, LGBTQ+ rights, gender equity, and more. New episodes debut every Tuesday, giving you an insider’s perspective on what is happening and what you can do to fight back.
Episodes
rePROs Fight BackSomeone Tell the State Department that Reproductive Rights are Human Rights
Last year, the Trump-Pence administration removed information on reproductive health and rights from the State Department’s annual Human Rights Reports…
rePROs Fight BackLegalize it! Ban it! Abortion Legislation Across the US
It’s no secret that abortion access and reproductive healthcare have been under attack in the U.S. recently. Some states, like New York, are currently…
rePROs Fight BackHere are the facts of New York’s Reproductive Health Act
Sexual and reproductive health and rights discussions, especially in today’s world, can often be depressing, bleak, or just a bit of a downer. But on January…
rePROs Fight BackWhat is Self-Managed Abortion?
Any conversation we have about reproductive health, reproductive freedom, bodily autonomy, or abortion should include detailed discussions of all of the…
rePROs Fight BackYouth and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: Focus on Uganda
It is critical that young people around the world are engaged and informed on sexual and reproductive health and rights. Uganda has one of the youngest…
rePROs Fight BackState of Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights: 2018 Year in Review
Over the past year, sexual and reproductive health and rights have endured unending attacks from the administration, Congress, and state legislatures. This…
rePROs Fight BackHow Trump is Reshaping the Federal Judiciary
The Trump administration is reshaping our judicial landscape. During his time in office, Trump has sent 157 judicial nominees to the Senate, which is bad news…
rePROs Fight Back#HandsOffIX: Proposed Changes to Title IX Fail Sexual Assault Survivors
Betsy DeVos, the United States Secretary of Education, has proposed changes to Title IX, a federal civil rights law which is meant to protect students from sex…
rePROs Fight BackIt Shouldn't Be This Hard For Immigrants to Access Health Care
For clarity, these show notes and this podcast episode will be inclusive of undocumented immigrants and immigrants with legal status. In the United States…
rePROs Fight BackSexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Hero Origin Stories
This week we are doing something a little different. We talked to a number of amazing SRHR heroes to hear their story of how they got into working in the…
rePROs Fight BackVindication of Pleasure in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
SRHR isn’t just about domestic and international policies on gender-based violence, unintended pregnancy and STI’s. While that’s very important, pleasure is…
rePROs Fight Back#BeBoldEndHyde
September 30, 2018, marked the 42nd anniversary of the Hyde Amendment.It’s no secret that abortion care can be a costly expense for women around the country…
rePROs Fight BackA Podcast About All Things Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
So we say this a podcast about all things repro, but it's actually about all things sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). SRHR is the sum of rights…
rePROs Fight BackLet's Talk About Sex...Education
Comprehensive sexuality education refers to sequential learning between grades K-12, where young people are building education and skills related to…
rePROs Fight BackBonus Pod: Crisis Pregnancy Centers, SCOTUS and Why We Need to #StopKavanaugh
Crisis Pregnancy Centers are centers that exist to deter pregnant women from receiving abortions. They provide pregnancy tests, anti-abortion counseling and…
rePROs Fight BackTitle X Under Attack
Title X is the national family planning and reproductive health program for low income women and men enacted by Congress and signed into law by President…
rePROs Fight BackMeghla Akter on Avoiding Child Marriage
In Bangladesh, 52% of girls are married by their 18th birthday. In more rural communities, the numbers are even worse, where 71% of girls are married before…
rePROs Fight BackFighting Child Marriage in India
In Rajasthan, India, child marriage is a tradition. But, the practice isn’t limited only to the one northwestern state; while child marriage is a global issue…
rePROs Fight BackChild Marriage in Latin America
Nearly 1 in 4 girls across Latin America and the Caribbean are married before the age of 18. Girls who are at the highest risk of getting married as a child…
rePROs Fight BackEnding Child Marriage
Every year 12 million girls are married before the age of 18, according to data from the UN. That breaks down to 23 girls getting married every minute. Child…
rePROs Fight BackHow the Administration is Attacking Repro Rights in the US and Overseas
Every person, no matter who they are and where they live, should be able to make basic health decisions about their lives. Reproductive health and rights are…
rePROs Fight BackPEPFAR: Achieving an AIDS - Free Generation
The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is a program that was born from bipartisan legislation in 2003 under George W. Bush’s administration…
rePROs Fight BackQueering Repro
Reproductive health and the LGBTQ+ community are often talked about separately, but both groups intersect, and oftentimes fight the same battles for the same…
rePROs Fight BackMeeting the Health Needs of Sex Workers
The sex work population is one of the most marginalized and stigmatized; sex workers face consistent human rights abuses, like lack of access to primary and…
rePROs Fight BackReligious Refusals: A License to Discriminate
A religious refusal is when a healthcare provider (such as a doctor, nurse, CEO, receptionist, or member of a hospital board) refuses to provide or facilitate…
rePROs Fight BackThe Maternal Health Crisis Facing Black Women
Women in the U.S. are more likely to die from pregnancy or childbirth related causes than women in other developed countries. Unfortunately this is…
rePROs Fight Back#EndFGM: Researching to End FGM/C in a Generation
200 million girls in 30 countries have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and 13 million girls under the age of 15 are at risk of undergoing…
rePROs Fight BackGender Based Violence and SRHR
Worldwide, 1 in 3 women will experience physical or sexual violence in their lifetime. Tarah Demant with Amnesty International talks to us about gender-based…
rePROs Fight BackJustice for Jane
When a person crosses a border, they still carry fundamental human rights- including the right to choose if, when, and how they have a family. Bethany Van…
rePROs Fight Back#FundUNFPA to Support Women and Girls Around the World
In 1994, the United Nation’s Population Fund (UNFPA) held the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, Egypt. The idea of population…
rePROs Fight Back20 Week Abortion Bans: Unnecessary and Arbitrary
January 22, 2018 marked the 45th anniversary of the passage of the Supreme Court ruling Roe w. Wade. There’s no question that the landmark ruling is under…
rePROs Fight BackGlobal Gag Rule
January 23, 2017 marks the one year anniversary of the reinstatement of one of the most pressing reproductive health issues today, the inhumane policy known as…
rePROs Fight BackBirth Control Benefit
In this episode, Mara Gandal-Powers with the National Women’s Law Center talks to us about the Affordable Care Act’s momentous birth control benefit, which…
rePROs Fight BackrePROs Fight Back: Reproductive Justice
There’s a radical idea that you are in charge of your own reproductive future, and that you have the right to choose if, when and how you have children, don’t…
rePROs Fight BackrePROs Fight Back: Setting the Scene Domestic Update
In this episode, we bring you up to speed on the current status of reproductive health and rights in the United States. Planned Parenthood Federation of…
rePROs Fight BackrePROs Fight Back: Setting the Scene International Update
Now that we know how the U.S. is advancing, we have to ask: what is the status of accessible reproductive and sexual healthcare throughout the rest of the…