Blog
05.22.2023
Wherever I go, this organization and this movement will forever be a part of me. And, I will forever be devoted to the pursuit of all people’s full and unfettered reproductive self-determination.... Read more
04.27.2023
If/When/How is excited to announce our fourteenth Reproductive Justice Fellowship Program (RJFP) cohort. Join us in celebrating seven recent law school graduates and welcoming them to a community of, now, 102 lawyers who have launched their careers with our one-of-a-kind legal fellowship. ... Read more
03.3.2023
Dear If/When/How Community, With full hearts, we are writing to share the bittersweet news that Jill E. Adams will be stepping down as If/When/How’s Executive Director at the end of May. Jill has been an instrumental force in the founding and development of multiple organizations and initiatives that comprise If/When/How today, as well as an influential thought leader in the reproductive health,…... Read more
01.3.2023
If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice is thrilled to announce that we will transition to a four-day work week beginning right now, January 2023.... Read more
12.7.2022
If/When/How, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice at UC Berkeley School of Law are pleased to announce the winners of the seventeenth annual Writing Prize for New Student Scholarship in Reproductive Rights & Justice. Congratulations! First place: "Willful Disregard: How Ignoring Structural Racism in Maternal Mortality has led Black Women to Become Invisible in Their Own Crisis” by…... Read more
09.1.2022
Winning authors will receive cash prizes, and the first-place winning submission will also be granted a “presumption of publishability” and receive expedited review by the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice. Here's how to submit.... Read more
09.1.2022
If/When/How asked Melissa Shube to tell us how she and her colleagues at The Lawyering Project are challenging forced parental involvement laws and TRAP laws... Read more
09.1.2022
If/When/How asked Jess Braverman, Legal Director at Gender Justice, to tell us how her organization is challenging forced parental involvement laws to ensure young folks in Minnesota have access to the care they need.... Read more
08.30.2022
Abortion is still a human right, and young people should have full autonomy over their own pregnancy, birthing, and parenting decisions.... Read more
08.29.2022
If there is going to be a future for abortion access, it must be a future in which all people have true access to confidential abortion care, including young people under 18 years old.... Read more