Honor Women Today: International Violence Against Women Act

Today is International Women's Day. According to the UN, 1 in 3 women worldwide have experienced gender-based violence. Such violence sabotages women's ability to make their own decisions about sex & family planning & protect themselves and their children from unintended pregnancies, abortions, & HIV infections.

Here are some steps you can take to support the International Violence Against Women Act.

In the US, urge your Congresspeople to back the I-VAWA bill:
http://capwiz.com/wc/home/

Petition you can sign from anywhere:
http://www.saynotoviolence.org/join-say-no/tell-us-congress-pass-interna...

Welcome

Welcome to All Our Lives! We are working for a world in which reproductive and sexual decisions are made free from domination, coercion, and violence. We are working for reproductive peace.

"Reproductive peace" is a philosophy that combines principles of the reproductive justice and consistent life ethic movements. Like our sisters in the reproductive justice movement, we condemn and fight the many intersecting injustices that work against women's ability to live, love, and reproduce -- or not -- freely.  And like consistent life ethic proponents, we seek to respond to oppression in ways that preserve human life before and after birth.

Nobody is defending women's right to make all non-violent choices about their sexual and reproductive lives without advocating for abortion as well.  All Our Lives will change that.  Our mission is to model a woman-centric, non-violent and inclusive approach to issues of health, sexuality, and reproduction.  We plan to start a conversation on how to foster a sexual ethic that combines freedom with responsibility toward not only one's self and one's partner, but also toward any child who might be conceived.  If that sounds like something you want to be part of, please get involved.

 

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