From the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion to the modern day struggle for intersectional reproductive freedom, religious voices have been at the forefront of fights that matter for generations. We’re here to amplify essential voices, tell stories that often go unheard, and lift up the holy and healing work of faithfully pro-choice activists like you.
Episodes
Friday Sep 10, 2021
Friday Sep 10, 2021
Faith Organizers Kelley Fox and Terry Williams talk Texas — explaining the state's latest abortion ban, exploring the Ohio connections at play, and laying out exactly why reproductive health advocates are disappointed but not surprised at the whole damn debacle. Kelley and Terry discuss abortion ban history, how bans have played out in other nations, and even how we are already prepared with networks of mutual aid that will support & care for patients in Ohio and beyond no matter what the future holds.*
Links to discussed content:
- Texas' Senate Bill 8: www.npr.org/2021/09/01/1033202132/texas-abortion-ban-what-happens-next
- Donate to the Texas Abortion Funds: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/txfunds
- Women Have Options Ohio (WHO/O) Abortion Fund: www.womenhaveoptions.org
- Romania Ceauçescu history: https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/05/16/what-actually-happens-when-a-country-bans-abortion-romania-alabama/
- Romania orphanages & AIDS history: https://theconversation.com/ceau-escus-orphans-what-a-regressive-abortion-law-does-to-a-country-71949
- Mexico deems abortion bans unconstitutional: www.nytimes.com/2021/09/07/world/americas/mexico-supreme-court-decriminalize-abortion.html
- Just Texas' Freedom Network: https://tfn.org/issue/reproductive-rights/
- New Mexico RCRC: https://nmrcrc.org
- "Texas—and Ohio—Doesn't Need a White Savior": www.ohiorcrc.org/blog/texas-and-ohio-doesnt-need-a-white-savior
- "5 Ways to Faithfully Respond to Abortion Attacks in TX & OH:" www.ohiorcrc.org/blog/5-ways-to-faithfully-respond-to-abortion-attacks-in-tx-and-oh
*We would like to apologize for the ableist phrase used during this podcast. Following the recording of this podcast, we realized how this language is harmful to marginalized folks, and we would like to acknowledge our mistake. Thank you for your patience as we work to be and do better and work to not perpetuate ableism, unintentional or otherwise.
Music by Korbin Jones
Friday Aug 27, 2021
Friday Aug 27, 2021
Special guest Blyth Barnow from Faith in Public Life joins our Faith Organizer Kelley Fox to discuss the oppressive systems that continue to harm those who are simply trying to survive & live their lives. From substance use to abortion access, this episode breaks down the white supremacist logic that insists there is only one path to a good and moral life.
Links to discussed content:
- Faith in Public Life: www.faithinpubliclife.org/
- Beyond Survival: www.akpress.org/beyond-survival.html
- Rat Park: www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/what-does-rat-park-teach-us-about-addiction
- Chasing the Scream: https://chasingthescream.com/
- Guys Are Waffles, Girls Are Spaghetti: https://bookshop.org/books/guys-are-waffles-girls-are-spaghetti/9781400315161
- Faith in Harm Reduction: https://harmreduction.org/our-work/action/faith-in-harm-reduction/
- Join our "Abolition Reads" book club as we discuss We Still Here on August 31st: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUscOyqrTgiGt3BniTieir3bHqMAI9_qg4y
Music by Korbin Jones
Friday Aug 13, 2021
Friday Aug 13, 2021
Faith Organizer Kelley Fox and Executive Director Elaina Ramsey talk about time off, prioritizing mental health, and how operating at your best is the best for one's family, team, community, and self. From Olympic athletes to restaurant servers, everyone should have access to bodily autonomy and the right to freely choose what to do with their time and bodies.
Links to discussed content:
- Naomi Osaka: https://time.com/6077128/naomi-osaka-essay-tokyo-olympics/
- Simone Biles: www.cnbc.com/2021/07/27/simone-biles-focusing-on-mental-health-how-to-tell-if-you-need-a-break.html
- Allyson Felix: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/opinion/allyson-felix-pregnancy-nike.html
- Our last episode on Women Have Options-Ohio and the importance of having access to abortion: https://ohiorcrc.podbean.com/e/fund-abortions-not-cops-the-fight-for-abolition-and-greater-abortion-access/
- What is Agency and Why is it Important? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5002400/
Music by Korbin Jones
Friday Jul 30, 2021
Friday Jul 30, 2021
Special guest Stephanie Craddock Sherwood from Women Have Options - Ohio (our statewide abortion fund!) joins our Faith Organizers Kelley Fox and Terry Williams to explore the intersection of abolition and abortion access. From abortion restrictions to the systemic injustice of mass incarceration, this episode digs down to the roots that connect abolition work with faithful advocacy for reproductive health, rights, and justice.
Links to discussed content:
- Women Have Options - Ohio: www.womenhaveoptions.org/
- Central Ohio Freedom Fund: www.centralohiofreedomfund.org/
- Our "Abolition Reads" Book Club: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUscOyqrTgiGt3BniTieir3bHqMAI9_qg4y
- First book club livestream discussion: https://fb.watch/72CtGTMYw-/
- Buy the books for the book club: www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/301-abolitionist-starter-kit
Music by Korbin Jones
Friday Jul 16, 2021
Friday Jul 16, 2021
Faith Organizers Kelley Fox and Terry Williams go in-depth on abolition, exploring why minor adjustments to a system not built for justice will never be enough. Listen in for a full rundown of how abortion and abolition intersect, including a discussion about practical ways we can start creating the justice-focused future of our dreams even as we speak.
Links to discussed content:
- "Abolition Reads:" Our New Book Club for People Seeking Freedom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUscOyqrTgiGt3BniTieir3bHqMAI9_qg4y
- A Recap of Our Restorative & Transformative Justice Book Club: www.ohiorcrc.org/blog/building-safe-and-sustainable-communities-one-book-and-practice-at-a-time
- Why Abolition is the Next Step in Embodying Restorative & Transformative Justice: www.ohiorcrc.org/blog/abolition-reads-a-book-study-on-how-to-create-the-world-we-deserve
- What is Abolition?: https://aas.princeton.edu/news/what-abolition-and-why-do-we-need-it
- Sister Song's Definition of Reproductive Justice: www.sistersong.net/reproductive-justice
Music by Korbin Jones
Friday Jul 02, 2021
Friday Jul 02, 2021
Faith Organizers Kelley Fox and Terry Williams talk Juneteenth, the Fourth of July, and why holidays that come without real social change are anything but holy. Kelley and Terry explore the roots of interdependence, touching on Critical Race Theory, performative gestures that come in place of liberation, and what true freedom looks like in a nation still longing for full reproductive health, rights, and justice.
Links to discussed content:
- "How the World Works," by Bo Burnham: https://youtu.be/KiiebNenB0k
- Killing the Black Body, by Dorothy E. Roberts: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/155575/killing-the-black-body-by-dorothy-roberts/
- Juneteenth as a Federal Holiday: www.npr.org/2021/06/18/1008095439/juneteenth-is-a-federal-holiday-now-but-what-that-means-for-workers-varies-widel
- Critical Race Theory: https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2021/06/16/what-critical-race-theory-and-why-do-ohio-republicans-want-ban-it/7541417002/
Music by Korbin Jones
Friday Jun 18, 2021
Friday Jun 18, 2021
Faith Organizers Kelley Fox and Terry Williams keep the rainbows flowing for PRIDE Month by talking about reproductive freedom, Queer liberation, and what faith has to do with building a movement that leaves no one behind. Exploring how opponents to LGBTQ+ and reproductive rights often use the same oppressive tactics, Kelley and Terry describe what a transformed social contract could look like when everyone is valued and able to live freely.
Links to discussed content:
- Sister Song's Definition of Reproductive Justice: www.sistersong.net/reproductive-justice
- Anti-Abortion Laws Are Anti-LGBTQ Laws: https://www.horizonsfoundation.org/anti-abortion-laws-are-anti-lgbtq-laws-we-need-to-fight-back/
- Our other PRIDE Month podcast episode: https://ohiorcrc.podbean.com/e/wwmpjd-what-would-marsha-p-johnson-do/
- Building Safe & Sustainable Communities One Book (and Practice) At a Time: www.ohiorcrc.org/blog/building-safe-and-sustainable-communities-one-book-and-practice-at-a-time
Music by Korbin Jones
Friday Jun 04, 2021
Friday Jun 04, 2021
Faith Organizers Kelley Fox and Terry Williams connect the dots between PRIDE Month, racial reckoning, and reproductive health, rights, and justice in this rainbow episode of intersectional delight. If you’ve ever wanted a bird’s-eye view of how repro, race, religion, and LGBTQ+ liberation all fit together, this is the episode for you!
Links to discussed content:
- PRIDE: Personal Rights in Defense and Education https://news.usc.edu/41686/pride-collection-tracks-inception-of-the-advocate-2/
- Not Up for Debate: LGBTQ People Need and Deserve Tailored Sexual and Reproductive Health Care www.guttmacher.org/article/2020/11/not-debate-lgbtq-people-need-and-deserve-tailored-sexual-and-reproductive-health
- Who Was Marsha P. Johnson? www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/52981395
- Fulton v. City of Philadelphia: Rights of Same-Sex Adoptive Parents www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/52981395
- Mainstream America's Acceptance of PRIDE Tweet: https://twitter.com/RoseOfWindsong/status/1397153876701233154?s=20
Music by Korbin Jones
Friday May 21, 2021
Friday May 21, 2021
Violence in Palestine is an issue of reproductive health, rights, and justice. Join Faith Organizers Kelley Fox and Terry Williams as they talk Palestinian liberation, reproductive justice, and unpack what it means to oppose state-sanctioned violence from Gaza all the way to Columbus. This episode also includes a podcast exclusive where our hosts give this week’s Supreme Court news on abortion the talking through it deserves.
Links to discussed content:
- "Conflict is Not Abuse:" www.akpress.org/conflictisnotabuse.html
- Our Restorative and Transformative Justice Book Club Session on "Conflict is Not Abuse:" https://fb.watch/5CQj3oex4B/
- Mimetic Theory by René Girard: https://violenceandreligion.com/mimetic-theory/
- The Supreme Court Hears Case Challenging Roe v Wade: www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/us/politics/supreme-court-to-hear-abortion-case-challenging-roe-v-wade.html
- The Pinkhouse Defenders in Mississippi: www.facebook.com/PinkhouseDefenders
Music by Korbin Jones
Friday May 07, 2021
Friday May 07, 2021
Living in a police state where SWAT teams are overfunded while schools and health clinics languish is a real drag. Faith Organizers Kelley Fox and Terry Williams talk about social action, the power of protest in Ohio, and why true reproductive freedom will always be rooted in building flourishing, empowered communities.
Links to discussed content:
- U.S. Judge Rules the Columbus Police Can't Use Force Against Peaceful Protesters: www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/05/01/columbus-police-protests-ruling/
- Protesters Say Tear Gas Caused Them to Get Their Period Multiple Times in a Month: www.teenvogue.com/story/protestors-say-tear-gas-caused-early-menstruation
- Stop Anti-Protest Bills with 'Our Voices Together': https://actionnetwork.org/forms/our-voices-together/
- Columbus Police Helicopter Spells Out 'CPD' in Skywriting Joyride: www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2021/04/17/columbus-pd-helicopter-criticized-over-skywriting-joyride/7269896002/
- How Police Brutality Harms Mothers: Linking Police Violence to the Reproductive Justice Movement: https://repository.uchastings.edu/hastings_race_poverty_law_journal/vol12/iss2/4/
- Why They're Not Saying Ma'Khia Bryant's Name: www.vox.com/22406055/makhia-bryant-police-shooting-columbus-ohio
Music by Korbin Jones