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 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
Friday Apr 23, 2021
Friday Apr 23, 2021
Recorded before the announcement of the Chauvin verdicts, in this episode Faith Organizers Kelley Fox and Terry Williams talk about what true justice looks like in a nation that has so far still to go in achieving racial equity. From discussing parallels with Rodney King’s decades-old beating at the hands of police to a clear explanation of why racist police violence is a reproductive justice issue, this episode is so deep.
Links to discussed content:
- Accountability vs. Justice: www.wthr.com/article/news/local/chauvin-verdict-was-accountability-not-just[…]george-floyd-sentence/531-a383c68b-f34c-4157-bf31-806747d1450c
- Remembering Adam Toledo: https://nypost.com/2021/04/18/slain-13-year-old-adam-toledo-remembered-as-kind-and-loving/
- Ohio RCRC's Restorative & Transformative Justice Book Club: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUvd-2uqDIiH9cQc7VbwkAg1moYRccN5mmZ
- A Decade of Watching Black People Die: www.npr.org/2020/05/29/865261916/a-decade-of-watching-black-people-die
- Rodney King and the LA Riots: http://projects.scpr.org/timelines/la-riots-25-years-later/
- Why Racial & Reproductive Justice Can't Be Unlinked: www.teenvogue.com/story/racism-and-the-need-for-reproductive-justice
Music by Korbin Jones
Friday Apr 09, 2021
Friday Apr 09, 2021
Faith Organizers Kelley Fox and Terry Williams talk about protests within a faith context, exploring their first protests & outlining why the freedom to challenge authority is a sacred right we must defend. In addition to discussing the new wave of anti-protest bills targeting Ohio activists, Kelley and Terry talk candidly about the need for protester support & the role faith communities can play in supporting the voices of oppressed communities.
Links to discussed content:
- UMC Protest at the 2019 Special General Conference: https://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/faith-and-values/protest-at-methodists-gathering-in-st-louis/html_f8b0185f-53df-5033-9790-e31e75b7febe.html
- "Protect Ohio Repro Organizers" Legal Support Fundraiser: https://charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/protect-ohio-repro-organizers1
- "Protest While You Can" Rallies on April 10th: https://fb.me/e/VdmzgWc2
- Why I (Kelley Fox) Testified Against an Anti-Protest Bill: https://www.ohiorcrc.org/blog/why-i-testified-against-an-anti-protest-bill
- Statement of Solidarity to Protect Repro Organizers: https://www.ohiorcrc.org/blog/power-to-the-people-our-statement-of-solidarity-to-protect-repro-organizers
Music by Korbin Jones
Friday Mar 26, 2021
Friday Mar 26, 2021
Faith Organizers Kelley Fox and Terry Williams discuss the roots of Christian sexual repression and anti-Asian racism that are at the heart of the 2021 Atlanta murders. Recorded on March 22, just hours before the 2021 Boulder mass shooting, this episode focuses on the violence in Atlanta, the toxic American hatred of Asian persons, and the complicity of the American Church in the terror of mass shootings.
Links to discussed content:
- Debunking the Model Minority Myth
- Christians must rethink purity culture that puts the blame on women
- Sex Work is Work
- The Stories of the Victims
- March 30 Restorative Justice Book Club on "Beyond Survival"
Music by Korbin Jones
Friday Mar 12, 2021
Friday Mar 12, 2021
Special guest Kristin Hady from Capital Care (Volunteer) Clinic Escorts joins our Faith Organizers Kelley Fox and Terry Williams to talk about Toledo’s proposed Patient Safety Ordinance & how Ohio’s abortion clinics have become a battleground in the unholy war against reproductive freedom. Kristin doesn’t mince words about patient care, protecting the right to choose, defending informed consent, and much, much more!
Links to discussed content:
- Capital Care Escorts Facebook Page: https://m.facebook.com/CCCEscorts/
- TAKE ACTION: Tell the Toledo City Council to pass the Patient Safety Ordinance today!
- Toledo Patient Safety Ordinance Testimony from Rev. Terry Williams: www.ohiorcrc.org/blog/toledo-patients-deserve-dignity-and-respect
- Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Access_to_Clinic_Entrances_Act
- The Joliet, Tennessee, Clinic Blockade: https://fox17.com/news/local/trespassers-refuse-to-leave-mt-juliet-medical-center-others-asked-to-shelter-in-place-wilson-county-middle-tennessee-providence-medical-pavilion
- CHOICE Network Pro-Choice Adoption Agency: https://choicenetworkadoptions.com
Music by Korbin Jones
Friday Feb 26, 2021
Friday Feb 26, 2021
Faith Organizers Kelley Fox and Terry Williams explore the roots of thriving community through Restorative & Transformative Justice by engaging the emergent strategy work of adrienne maree brown. They explain why building a healthy, faithful, justice-centered world without repeating harmful patterns of the past is no easy feat, and also why it’s absolutely what must be done by those who seek true liberation.
Links to discussed content:
- Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds & We Will Not Cancel Us, And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice, by adrienne maree brown
- Livestream video of the first Restorative & Transformative Justice Book Club session
- Toledo City Council introduces legislation to protect patients at abortion clinics
- TAKE ACTION: Support Toledo Abortion Patients
- RSVP for the Restorative Justice Book Club (March 30th, April 27th, May 25th at 3pm-4pm EST)
Music by Korbin Jones
Friday Feb 12, 2021
Friday Feb 12, 2021
Faith Organizers Kelley Fox and Terry Williams are joined by Gaby Garcia-Vera, Domestic Program States Manager for Catholics for Choice, for this episode all about reproductive freedom in Catholic life. From the malalignment between Catholic leaders and Catholic laity to reflections on the January 22nd St. Joseph’s Cathedral protest, Gaby helps us explore the breadth and depth of life as a pro-choice advocate in the Roman Catholic church.
Links to discussed content:
- Our Statement of Support of the Pro-Abortion Direct Action at St. Joseph's Cathedral
- Terry William's Reflection on the Direct Action at St. Joseph's Cathedral
- Background on the ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) "Stop the Church" Direct Actions
- Restorative Justice Book Club starting Feb. 23
- Catholics for Choice
Music by Korbin Jones
Friday Jan 29, 2021
Friday Jan 29, 2021
Faith Organizers Kelley Fox and Terry Williams do a deep dive into why protest is never polite as they discuss the recent interruption of an anti-abortion mass at St. Joseph’s Cathedral in Columbus by reproductive rights advocates. Kelley and Terry discuss the theology of direct action movements and review the specific implications around this local action to bring accountability to the anti-abortion masses of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus.
Links to discussed content:
- Anti-Abortion Mass disrupted by protestors
- Capital Care Clinic in Toledo has a rock thrown through the window
- Shotgun blast fired at Planned Parenthood front door
- When Healthcare Comes With Harassment: Photographing Abortion Clinic Protests
- Martin Luther King Jr's Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Music by Korbin Jones