I'm writing this article for journalism, and I'm having a really interesting realization.
"Funding is at the heart of the third-wave feminist movement. NYAAF is providing access to safe, legal and affordable reproductive health care that is rightly ours, it’s just not accessible by other means—it’s incredible feat of the second-wave to have secured abortion as a legal right for all women living in the US and their work has allowed the third-wave to focus on equality within a social justice framework. And I think now our job now is to focus on providing all women with affordable access to that legal right today."
-Constance DeCherney, Chair of the New York Abortion Access Fund

This is my new response to people who believe that the fight for reproductive justice is over, that having Roe v. Wade and a democratic president means our access to the umbrella category of "reproductive rights" is entirely secure. What good is possessing these rights if, in reality, not everyone has equal access to them? What good is any one woman's individual right to her own body, if restrictive legislation in combination with socioeconomic circumstance denies hundreds of thousands of other women that right? What "choice" is there if we live in a society in which choice is only really accessible to white, middle-class women in certain states?