Reproductive Justice

Lessons from the Front: Abortion and the Battle for Health Care Access

Series Number: 
63

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author: 
Eesha Pandit
Author bio: 

Eesha Pandit is currently Director of Advocacy at Mergerwatch, a national organization that works to ensure patients’ rights to comprehensive health care. She is active in MergerWatch’s Raising Women’s Voices initiative. Raising Women’s Voices is a national initiative working to make sure women’s voices are heard in the health reform debate and women’s concerns are addressed by policymakers developing national and state health reform plans. She has formerly been a weekly staff writer for RH Reality Check. Recently, Eesha served as Associate Director of Programs at the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program, and has also worked with the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University and Amnesty International USA’s Women’s Rights Program. She is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and the University of Chicago.

Season: 
Reproductive Justice

10 Reasons to Rethink Reproductive Choice

Series Number: 
52

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author: 
Marlene Gerber Fried
Author bio: 

Marlene Gerber Fried is the director of the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program and a professor of philosophy at Hampshire College. Marlene founded the National Network of Abortion Funds and the Abortion Rights Fund of Western Massachusetts. She is currently on the board of both, as well as the Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights and the advisory board of Raising Women’s Voices. Marlene has written and lectured widely about abortion access and reproductive freedom and justice. She edited From Abortion Rights to Reproductive Freedom: Transforming a Movement; co-authored with Jael Silliman, Loretta Ross and Elena Gutiérrez, Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice; and co-authored the chapter on abortion in Our Bodies, Ourselves (2005 ed.).

Season: 
Reproductive Justice

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