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
328 episodes
Pregnant People Deserve Safe Care; Doctors Deserve to Provide It
The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) is a federal law that protects the right to emergency healthcare, including abortion. There has been, post-Dobbs, a clash between these federal protections and states with a...
The Fight to Protect Medication Abortion and Telehealth Continues
The most recent numbers show that two-thirds of abortions in the U.S. are medication abortions, while 29 percent of all U.S. abortions were telehealth medication abortions. Dr. Angel Foster, researcher at the University of Ottawa in the ...
Bonus Pod: Moving the Needle with Art and Activism
Art and activism intersect! Shannon Downey, full-time art activist, author, and educator, sits down to talk with us about art and activism and her new activism handbook for artists, crafters, and creators, Let’s Move the Needle,...
Anti-Abortion Violence and Disruption is on the Rise
Tomorrow is the fourth anniversary of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade. Brittany Fonteno, President and CEO of the National Abortion Federation (NAF) an...
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Explaining This Moment of Pronatalism
Pronatalism is an ideology, cultural orientation, and emerging policy framework promoting higher birthrates by framing reproduction as a social duty or moral good. Oftentimes, pronatalism can emphasize certain gender roles and can be rooted in ...
Grace Howard on Her New Book: The Pregnancy Police: Conceiving Crime, Arresting Personhood
Telling pregnant people what to do and enforcing pregnancy criminalization has been a decades-long threat. Dr. Grace Howard sits down with us to discuss her new book, which “traces the long history of state attempts to regulate and contr...
The DOJ is Targeting Federal Prosecutors Who Enforced the FACE Act
The ability to control your body and when, how, and if you get pregnant and raise children is a fundamental freedom that should be recognized by the law. Skye Perryman, President and CEO of Democracy Forward, sits down to talk with us ab...
Everyone Loves Someone Who Had an Abortion: Abortion Storytellers Part 4
We repeat: your reason is the right reason.For this incredibly special part four of our storytellers podcast series, tune in to hear the abortion stories of Candace and Trenece -- abortion storytellers from We Testify.
The Fight for Nationwide Access to Medication Abortion
Need a breakdown of the recent ruling on nationwide mifepristone access at the Supreme Court? Imani Gandy, Executive Producer, Legal Content & Culture with Rewire News Group, co-host of podcast Boom! Lawyered and host of podcast B*tc...
Everyone Loves Someone Who Had an Abortion: Abortion Storytellers Part 3
Your reason is the right reason.For this incredibly special part three of our storytellers podcast series, tune in to hear the abortion stories of Dr. Brendane A. Tynes and Kiah-- abortion storytellers from We Testify.
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Abortion, Crisis Pregnancy Centers, and What Else to Watch in Indiana
Indiana was the first state to sign, pass, and enforce an abortion ban after the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Supreme Court decision, which went into effect in 2023 (Missouri saw immediate enforcement via a trigger ban)...
Care and Coverage: The Importance of Doulas and Medicaid in the U.S.
Doulas, a non-medical birth professional, provide emotional, physical and social support and guidance through different aspects of sexual and reproductive health-- including labor and delivery, the prenatal and postpartum period, and during abo...
Who Gets to Define "Family" is Political
“Family values” brings up a very specific image rooted in the narrow idea of what a family is—such as a white, heterosexual marriage with children and a picket fence. But this image leaves out a lot of people, and so many families do n...
Violent Rhetoric Against Women Turns into Policy
Across the spectrum, there are escalating attacks on women’s rights and freedoms, including attacks on the abortion pill, birth control, women’s suffrage, no fault divorce, higher education, and more. Courtney Hagle, Research Director at...
Law in the U.S. Updates: Conversion Therapy, Birthright Citizenship, Pam Bondi is Gondi
A flurry of updates from the U.S. legal landscape have expanded recently; from cases examining birthright citizenship and conversion therapy to Pam Bondi’s bye-bye, Jessica Mason Pieklo, Executive Producer of Legal Content and Advocacy a...
The Voters Have Spoken: Protecting Reproductive Freedom Through Ballot Initiatives
After the Dobbs case (which overturned Roe v. Wade) was decided, several grassroots activists in various states appealed to the ballot constitutional amendment to protect reproductive freedom in their state constitutions. B...
The Coordinated Attack Against Comprehensive Sex Education in the U.S.
Comprehensive sex education can help young people navigate relationships, traverse sexual and reproductive decision-making, and learn more about their own minds and bodies. Yet, sex education often varies in the U.S. from state-to-state, school...
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights on Community College Campuses
Approximately 10 million students per year are attending community colleges in the U.S., and many students are balancing multiple responsibilities while they study. Yet, most community colleges do not offer robust health care services, like con...
Amy Littlefield on Her New Book: Killers of Roe: My Investigation into the Mysterious Death of Abortion Rights
From an IRS agent who originally penned the Hyde Amendment to the lawmakers involved in creating parental consent laws, there are several actors in the antiabortion movement’s fight to dismantle Roe v. Wade. Amy Littlefield, abo...
Fertility Tracking Must Be Grounded in Evidence and Reproductive Justice
Fertility awareness-based methods (FABMs) are different approaches to tracking fertility and identifying which days someone is most likely to conceive if they are having sex without contraception. These include features such as tracking one’s m...
Shocking In Its Cruelty: Looking Back at The First Year of Trump 2.0
It has now been one year of the second Trump administration, with many attacks to sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice aligning entirely with Project 2025’s blueprint. Amy Friedrich-Karnik, Director of Federal Policy at th...
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A Year of Harms: The Impact of US Foreign Aid Cuts on Women and Girls in Humanitarian Crises
A humanitarian crisis-- where life has been upset by natural disaster, conflict, or forced displacement-- can disproportionately impact women and girls. Women and girls, at disproportionate risk for gender-based violence, maternal health compli...
Abortion Criminalization and ICE Are Barriers to Reproductive Justice for AAPI Immigrants
The Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community is made up of various ethnicities, languages, and translation needs, requiring different and individualized advocacy and policy discussions-- particularly when that policy relates to sexu...
The Global Gag Rule is Once Again Expanded, Maximizing Harm
The Global Gag Rule, started by President Ronald Regan in 1984, prevented foreign NGOs from receiving U.S. family planning assistance if they performed, promoted, advocated for, counseled on, or referred patients for abortion. It has gone in an...
