# @shoutyourabortion on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CBLeZ6CprvX
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34221567-shoutyourabortion-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-06-08T15:41:18.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Shout Your Abortion (@shoutyourabortion) — https://gondola.cc/shoutyourabortion

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Vital words from _ashdashlee_ , ED of the highlandercenter in Tennessee. Please take special note of the demands section and stay up to date at DefendBlackLives.org & M4BL.org. Excerpted from the sistersong_woc  #RJ4BlackLives Town Hall: “Good afternoon everybody, my name is Ash-lee Woodard Henderson, the homies call me Ash. I use she, her, hers pronouns, and I'm the first Black woman Executive Director of the Highlander Research and Education Center in Tennessee, and an active leader of the movement for Black lives. I feel like it's important to set the record straight around what Reproductive Justice is and why that's so important to the demands that the movement for Black lives is lifting up right now. So as SisterSong defines Reproductive Justice, it is the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities. I'm going to say that last part of the definition. Because I think – towards these demands, it's the real important piece. Right? To be able to do whatever we want in regards to our bodily autonomy in safe and  sustainable communities. 
A 46 year old Black man named George Floyd was killed by a white Minneapolis police officer who pinned him to the ground, kneeling on his neck for nearly 10 minutes. This public lynching was sadly one in a series of state sanctioned killings of our people, Black people over the past two weeks, catapulting cities and towns across the nation into organized resistance. Despite the pandemic of Covid-19, police violence, racialized police violence toward Black communities, persists. Elected officials failed to heed the demands of Black communities, and this is the consequence. We're calling on elected officials to defund the police, and to prioritize funding to programming that protects and strengthens Black communities. To get us actually to the reality of where we're living, in places that are safe and sustainable. If any one of our members of community are at risk, we are all at risk. The pandemic has slowed much of American police work, but police are still working. As of May 17, 375 people [con’t in comments]

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