About Us

All Our Lives is a brand new, woman-led organization that is informed by both the reproductive justice movement and the consistent life ethic.

We are pro every life, before, during, and after birth. Therefore we vigorously advocate women's right to exercise freedom of conscience in making voluntary, nonviolent sexual and reproductive decisions. This freedom depends on one's fully informed consent regarding different options, their benefits, and their drawbacks. It depends just as much on the social power to carry out one's values and preferences.

Nonviolent choice includes, but is not limited to:

• Whether, when, how, and with whom (among consenting adults) to have sex. Philosophical and religious/spiritual views of sexual ethics for consenting adults are too numerous and divergent for state power to favor and mandate any particular one of them without treading on vital liberties of conscience, expression, association, religion, and privacy.

• Whether to prevent conception or seek it out. While we recognize the goodness of biological and social parenthood, we recognize equally the goodness of other-than-parental life courses, and the right of individuals to pursue these as desired.

• Which specific pregnancy prevention method(s) to adopt or not adopt. We are cognizant here of the need for the utmost safeguards against coercive population control, unethical pharmaceutical experimentation, and sterilization abuse.

  These are all dangers, and dangers with long histories -- to the poor, the colonized, people of color/ethnic minorities, and people with disabilities. At the same time, we name as unjust the coercive denial of access to the prevention method(s) of one's own choosing.

• Whether, in the event of a crisis pregnancy, to pursue parenting, adoption, guardianship, or some other safe care arrangement.