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	Special Issue: Reproductive Justice
	The stories and articles you will find in this issue of oob are moving, intense and utterly essential to a fuller understanding of reproductive rights. These articles tell what is lost when a Native culture’s midwife-assisted births at home are replaced by medicalized treatment plans and c-sections. They show the outrageous injustice of imprisoning a woman for self-aborting when she could afford neither an abortion nor a new baby and wanted to take care of her existing children. Environmental poisons make Native American mothers’ milk toxic for their newborns, but nothing is done to stop the pollution—yet a woman is imprisoned for drinking while nursing an infant because of the effect alcohol might have on the baby. Militias purportedly funded by the U.S. government wage war by kidnapping and forcibly impregnating women in the Democratic Republic of Congo; meanwhile, criminally neglectful U.S. prisons gratuitously mete out possibly unneeded hysterectomies with little room for consent, robbing women of even the opportunity to have children. Inadequate prenatal care for women in poverty means soaring rates of infant mortality, while the inability of impoverished moms to take care of their children means putting many up for adoption. The leadership of women of color in a new movement to counter these injustices is evident in the articles in this special issue of off our backs.
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