Abortion Is Our Right To Strike
Abortion isn’t a “cultural” issue. The production of children, and who will pay for it, is a key economic battlefront.
Articles by: Jenny Brown
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Jenny Brown is a member of National Women’s Liberation and a former editor at Labor Notes. She is a coauthor of the Redstockings book Women’s Liberation and National Health Care: Confronting the Myth of America and author of Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight Over Women's Work. Her latest book is Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now.
Not In Labor
With meager public support for parents, US women are having fewer children than ever. Raising the next generation is work — and American women seem to be on strike.
Medicare for All Is a Reproductive Rights Issue
Feminists have been pushing for years to repeal the Hyde Amendment. But we should think even bigger: Medicare for All.
Rational Actors
In the United States, women face the prospect of becoming mothers without necessary social protections. Many decide it’s not worth the risk.
Not Working for Trump
Why feminists are calling for a national women's strike during Donald Trump's inauguration.
Abortion Without Apology
The demand for abortion has had the most success when it’s been free of preemptive compromise.