A statement from If/When/How on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.... Read more

by Tamara Stein, If/When/How Suffolk Law Executive Board Member

As someone who has worked in the reproductive justice space and came to law school to further that career, I knew anecdotally how vital reproductive autonomy and accessible healthcare were. It wasn’t until my miscarriage that I experienced firsthand what it means to access this kind of health care. ... Read more

A statement from the staff of If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice.... Read more

Let’s work together, using our reproductive justice lens, to dismantle this country’s racist caste system.... Read more

The American Bar Association has adopted a resolution against criminalization of people for self-managed abortion or for any pregnancy outcome — marking an historic move forward for efforts to decriminalize our reproductive lives.... Read more

By Andrea Grimes, Cammie Dodson, Jessica Goldberg, Jill E. Adams, Kylee Sunderlin, Lauren Paulk, Sara L. Ainsworth, and Shireen Smalley

White people should not need to be asked and invited to dismantle white supremacy again and again; we should be showing up to support Black lives every damn day. We are grateful for the opportunity to learn from #RJ4BlackLives, and we offer the following as more than an invitation to white members of the If/When/How community — we offer this as a call to join us, in two parts.... Read more

A statement from the staff of If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice.... Read more

We’re working overtime to ready our legal resources and recruit more lawyers to help us protect people who self-manage their abortions from unjust policing and prosecution.... Read more

By Yveka Pierre, Esq., Litigation Counsel, If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice

Holistic lawyering requires us to meet people where they are, and in combination with the application of the analytical framework of intersectionality, becomes truly client-centered lawyering.... Read more

If/When/How fellows Kelsey Grimes (URGE) and Rebecca Wang (Positive Women’s Network — USA) penned a scathing op-ed for Rewire, taking on the Washington Post’s appalling decision to give an even bigger platform to fired Atlantic writer Kevin Williamson, who called for women who seek abortion care to be hanged.... Read more