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Editors' Note: The meaning of choice has long been a controversial issue in the reproductive rights movement. With the coming of a new administration in Washington it is urgent to question the choice framework again. In this issue of DifferentTakes, Marlene Gerber Fried analyzes why choice is a restrictive concept and why the bold vision advanced by the reproductive justice movement is the way forward.” Co-Editors Elizabeth Barajas-Roman & Betsy Hartmann
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.).
