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AMSAReproductive Health Project eNews #65 鈥� February 21, 2026

Greetings from the AMSAReproductive Health Project!

As we approach the close of February and Black History Month AMSAcelebrates our annual Health Equity Week of Action (HEWA) and looks ahead to March celebrations marking Women鈥檚 History Month, International Women鈥檚 Day, and Abortion Provider Appreciation Day!

But, before we get to March celebrations, we are excited to tell you about a new regular feature we are adding to AMSARepro eNews that will highlight abortion care and reproductive justice truth-tellers and invite YOU to NOMINATE YOUR FAVORITE TRUTH-TELLER!

Scroll down to see our first Truth-Teller, learn how you can submit a nomination, and get quick mini-grants and celebration resources we have to share with AMSAmembers who want to build community, share love, express appreciation, and celebrate in March.

AMSAHealth Equity Week of Action

February 23 - 27, 2026

Next week is 麻豆原创鈥檚 annual Health Equity Week of Action! In this Repro eNews, rather than our customary look at recent media coverage, we bring you an expanded look at abortion care and reproductive health research, thought-provoking videos, and upcoming opportunities related to health equity.

AMSAHealth Equity Week of Action (HEWA)
February 23 – 27 – All Events Online
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Join 麻豆原创’s annual, multi-part, week-long journey exploring health equity!
This year鈥檚 HEWA calls us into community to confront the moral, political, and social fractures shaping medicine today and to reimagine a 鈥淗ouse of Medicine鈥� grounded in justice, healing, and deep care. Take part in discussions with key thought-leaders and AMSAmembers on moral imagination, reproductive justice, human rights, community resilience, and envisioning a future of medicine that truly serves all.听

HEWA Kick-off!
Community Building Hour – Sunday, Feb 22 from 5:00-6:00pmE
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    • Monday 2/23: The House of Medicine & Moral Imagination 鈥� Repairing Trust, Restoring Justice
    • Tuesday 2/24: Moral Distress & Institutional Harm 鈥� When the Systems Meant to Protect Us Let Us Down
    • Wednesday 2/25: Protecting Abortion Care 鈥� Fighting Stigma & Attacks on Autonomy
    • Thursday 2/26: Standing Against Tyranny 鈥� The Future Physician鈥檚 Role Against Violations to Human Rights, Genocide, and State Violence听听
    • Friday 2/27: From Reflection to Reconstruction 鈥� Strengthening Our Collective Voice

    Attend One, All or Just a Few!
    Find Details with Full Session Schedule & Register for HEWA 2026 Events
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SPOTLIGHT ON REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE TRUTH-TELLERS

We are pleased to share this new regular column in our AMSARepro eNews with you! Our goal is to lift-up key voices and organizations we trust to bring you evidence-based facts, ground-breaking research, and thought-provoking ideas to help you wade through the growing volumes of mis-&-dis-information out there endlessly vying for attention.听

We hope you will find this column a knowledge-building resource, and that you will find it a useful tool to engage others in dialogues to advance reproductive freedom for all.

Loretta J. Ross: Visionary, Activist, Public Intellectual, Professor & Reproductive Justice Truth-Teller

In this kick-off column we are delighted to highlight one of the Mothers of Reproductive Justice: Loretta J. Ross. The she helped develop is the guidepost for our work in the AMSAAbortion Care & Reproductive Health Project where we know reproductive health services are essential to comprehensive health care, and believe legal, safe, voluntary abortion care should be available to all in need regardless of who they work for, how much they earn or what state they live in.

Loretta Ross is a clarion voice for reproductive justice and human rights. Her own experiences with traumas which disproportionately affect women of color ignited her activism as a first year student at Howard University. In addition to being one of the Mothers of Reproductive Justice, Loretta was the founder of the National Center for Human Rights Education, and the national program director of the National Black Women鈥檚 Health Project. She was also the National Coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, and a听

Loretta is a professor at Smith College in the Program for the Study of Women and Gender, and has co-written three books on reproductive justice: Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice (2004); Reproductive Justice: An Introduction (2017); Radical Reproductive Justice: Foundations, Theory, Practice, Critique (2017), and her newest book, . (Read Loretta鈥檚 full bio )听

In 2024, Loretta gave a heartfelt and thought-provoking keynote address at the AMSAAnnual Convention: FP4Change. She also sat with former AMSAReproductive Health Fellow, Anna Hindman, for an interview we invite you to explore and share along with the selected videos below.

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Your input is vital! Nominate your favorite abortion care or reproductive justice truth-teller .
Stay tuned for coming opportunities to join us in conversation, increase awareness, build community, and develop skills to lift your voice safely and effectively.
Send your suggestions and comments to us at rhp@amsa.org

Loretta J. Ross on Reproductive Justice Futurism, Point of Relation Podcast
Loretta explores how we can address inequality, oppression, and hate in an atmosphere of political division and fast-paced technological progress, and shares experiences that helped her form more effective strategies to solve social problems collectively and build inclusive movements that fight oppression with love, hope, and community instead of hate, anger, and vengeance.

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Loretta Ross Interview: A Personal History of Reproductive Justice, The Thread: Interviews on Meaningful Lives –
In this 30-minute video Loretta Ross reveals how she transformed her trauma into an activist movement: from surviving a difficult childhood to becoming a leading voice in reproductive justice. She also discusses advice for the next generation of women’s leaders.

Reinterpreting Margaret Sanger, Smith Program for the Study of Women and Gender –
In this 90-minute video Reproductive justice leader and scholar Loretta Ross speaks about the legacy of Margaret Sanger, with responses by scholars Joyce Berkman and Joyce Follet.

Voices from the Frontlines: Loretta Ross Unveils the Roots and Calls in the Future of Reproductive Justice
Interview and transcript by Anna Hindman, former AMSAReproductive Health Project Fellow

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UPCOMING OPPORTUNITIES

This March the AMSAAbortion Care & Reproductive Health Project invites AMSAmembers to join in celebrations that honor the vital work of abortion care providers, acknowledge the challenges they face, and shower them with gratitude, appreciation, and love.听

Mini-grants between $100-$250 are available to AMSAmembers and chapters to support local gatherings and actions during March. Grants can support action supplies, thank you card postage, food and beverages at celebrations. Action sample ideas include: thank yous posted to Instagram @麻豆原创national – ; thank you calls or postcards to supportive policy makers (we can provide mailing addresses and phone numbers), other ideas? Be creative!

by midnight Monday, March 2
and we’ll be in touch to help make arrangements.

 

More Upcoming Opportunities

  • March 4 Boundaries, Bodies, and Bliss: Pleasure and Reproductive Justice Advocacy – 2026 Reproductive Justice Conference @ 10am-4pmE in Duke University Penn Pavilion –
  • March 5 Online @ 1-2pmE – Reimagining Care That鈥檚 Centered on the Community: Focus on Midwifery, The Intersection: Where Anti-Racism and Healthcare Meet –
  • March 10 Online @ 12pmE – Abortion Provider Appreciation Day Panel & Q/A, Abortion Care Network –

Inequality and Abortion Access in the United States, Guttmacher Institute –

Deeper Dive Policy Analysis:
Inequity in US Abortion Rights and Access: The End of Roe Is Deepening Existing Divides, Guttmacher Institute –

Abortion Access, Reproductive Justice and Implications for Health Equity, University of Washington School of Public Health –

 

Menstrual Health Equity: Global Perspectives and Local Innovations, Duke Global Health Institute
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Saving Lives: Establishing Reproductive Justice a Matter of Health Equity, Partners for Advancing Health Equity, Tulane University –

“Calling In the Reproductive Justice Movement” at the 2023 Race, Gender & Equity at Work Symposium with Loretta J. Ross, Associate Professor, Smith College – Tools for Humanity: Rage and Love as Acts of Resistance and Renewal, Harvard Business School –

  • Abortion Access and Birth-related Outcomes and Inequities: A Call to Dismantle Abortion Restrictions in Wisconsin to Improve Health and Well-being,听 Wisconsin Medical Journal –
    • Deeper Dive: Birth equity requires abortion access, University of Wisconsin Collaborative for Reproductive Equity –
  • Federal Policy Solutions to Advance Gender Equity, Promoting Access to Abortion, Institute for Women’s Policy Research –
    • Deeper Dive: 14 related policy briefs –
  • Abortion AI: Toward an equity-centered research agenda for AI and abortion, Contraception –
  • Integrating Reproductive Justice in Public Health Practice, Research, and Advocacy: An Imperative to Advance Health Equity, American Public Health Journal –
  • Transgender, nonbinary, and gender expansive experiences with telehealth medication abortion and implications for health equity in the United States, Contraception –
  • Supporting All Patients With Unintended Pregnancies: Implications for Health Equity, American Family Physician –
  • Call to action: Bringing sexual and reproductive health equity into how we quantify the impact of contraceptive access, Contraception –
  • Sexual & Reproductive Health: Health Equity, National Health Law Program –
    • Deeper Dives:听
    • 2025 Landmines and Pathways in the Fight for Sexual and Reproductive Health Care Equity for People with Disabilities –
    • Contraceptive Access: A Disability Equity Issue –
  • How History Has Shaped Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities: A Timeline of Policies and Events, KFF –
    Section 1: 1808 to 1865 begins with Medical Exploitation of Enslaved Black Women

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