June 24, 2022: UUA President Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray was invited to speak at the Portland, OR grassroots rally and protest for abortion access following the SCOTUS ruling. Unitarian Universalists attending General Assembly in Portland joined the thousands of others in declaring that abortion is health care and health care is a human right. Video by Leo Collas, member of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin TX. Shared with permission.
"Unitarian Universalists are committed to Reproductive Justice, a framework created by Black women in the 1980s and 1990s, which affirms the human right to have children, not to have children, to parent the children one has in healthy environments, to safeguard bodily autonomy, and to express one's sexuality freely. The UU faith has a long history of collaborating in this movement and advocating for safe, legal, accessible abortion care." from UUs Remain Committed to Reproductive Justice (uua.org/pressroom/press-releases/committed-reproductive-justice).
Learn more about our Reproductive Justice work, theology, and upcoming events at sidewithlove.org/upliftaction