REPRODUCTIVE EQUITY NOW FOUNDATION INC
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Mission Statement
Reproductive Equity Now works to make equitable access to the full spectrum of reproductive health care a reality for all people regardless of their race, ethnicity, income, zip code, gender, age, immigration status, ability, sexual orientation, or religion. Advancing reproductive justice and eliminating barriers to safe, legal abortion care are central to our mission. The Reproductive Equity Now Foundation is the sister organization to Reproductive Equity Now, focusing its efforts on research and public education about equitable access to the full spectrum of reproductive health care regardless of race, ethnicity, income, zip code, gender, age, immigration status, ability, sexual orientation, or religion. Advancing reproductive justice and eliminating barriers to safe, legal abortion care are central to our mission. The Reproductive Equity Now Foundation uses research and analysis to educate the public and, especially voters, and shine a light on barriers to access that must be removed to create true reproductive equity.
About This Cause
For nearly 50 years our strategy has been to engage in local organizing and local advocacy to create statewide change. In the late 1960s, a group of activists came together to make abortion legal in Massachusetts under the banner of the Massachusetts Organization to Repeal Abortion Laws or MORAL. Incorporated in 1972, MORAL evolved and grew, eventually becoming an affiliate of NARAL Pro-Choice America. In 2021, change came to organization again as our partnership with NARAL Pro-Choice America ended and we became Reproductive Equity Now and the Reproductive Equity Now Foundation. Our organization’s new name, Reproductive Equity Now, reflects the urgency we feel when it comes to demanding, protecting, and expanding abortion access and reproductive equity for everyone. Though we believe that reproductive equity should be guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, what has become abundantly clear is that protecting and expanding abortion access is a state-by-state, voter-by-voter grassroots battle. We need reproductive equity across this country, and we need it now. Reproductive Equity Now will continue to lead that fight in Massachusetts and we are expanding our grassroots presence across this region. We have seen what happens when we mobilize and organize on the local level. Our organization has been successful in ensuring pro-choice majorities in the State House and State Senate, passing laws that ensure unimpeded access to abortion clinics. Most recently, we passed the ROE Act, one of the few pieces of legislation in the entire country to expand reproductive access. Central to our work is the belief that every elected official at all levels of government — local, state, and federal — must fight for reproductive equity. Reproductive equity means equitable access to reproductive health care for all regardless of your race, ethnicity, income, zip code, gender, age, immigration status, ability, sexual orientation, or religion. Today, barriers to accessing care disproportionately impact low-income people and people of color. Even if we remove barriers, inequity persists in accessing reproductive health care. Fighting for equity asks us to examine and fight not just for equal access to care but to give people what they need to access care without delays or financial burden. Centering equity in the fight for reproductive freedom means expanding access until every person can get the care they want, need, and deserve free from any barrier. Reproductive equity means using an intersectional lens to fight for access to reproductive health care. Reproductive health care includes access to consent-based sexuality education, birth control, STI testing and treatment, miscarriage management, and the full spectrum of pregnancy care, including abortion care. But the fight for equity means we can't stop there. Not all pregnant people have access to pregnancy care and healthy birth outcomes. And, as long as Black and Brown women face a grave maternal health crisis, we must fight to end it. People cannot make decisions about if, when, and how to become parents if they cannot access affordable child care. And they cannot elect politicians who will fight for reproductive freedom if systems of power erect obstacles that limit their ability to vote. Our goal is to look at the systems that prevent us from achieving equity and dismantle them.