Reproductive Transparency Now (RTN) and the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) want to be transparent about why we changed the time and day of our webinar. It came to our attention that the original day of the webinar coincided with the potential release of killer cop Jason Van Dyke. People across the city are mobilizing to demand that federal charges be brought against Van Dyke and we want to be with the people on this day.

The struggle against police brutality is the struggle for abortion justice. The same courts, the same judges, and the same system uphold racism and sexist bigotry. Just this week, SB8 (Texas’ six-week abortion ban) was upheld by the Supreme Court for the fourth time since September 2021. Make no mistake, racial injustice is reproductive injustice and there cannot be justice without a movement that fights back for our Black siblings and all oppressed sectors of society that know that things need to change. These changes must include a complete shutdown of crisis pregnancy centers and every institution that is funded to keep us unsafe.