If You Really Care about Environmental Justice, You Should Care about Reproductive Justice!

Environmental Justice, like reproductive justice, incorporates a social justice framework. It seeks to reduce the inequitable environmental burdens born by People of Color, women, indigenous communities and those living in economically disadvantaged areas or developing nations. Reproductive justice also demands that the decision of whether or not to have a child and the right to raise that child not be impeded by the inequitable distribution of environmental burdens. In advancing Reproductive Justice, you are demanding that individuals in marginalized communities not be forced to make reproductive decisions based on the fact that their communities suffer disparate exposure to environmental hazards.

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FactSheetEnvironmentalJusticeandReproJustice.pdf