What Else Do We Do?
- Advocate for access to high quality comprehensive reproductive health care for Alaskan women.
- Advise organizations about current reproductive rights issues.
- Encourage community action in support of women's health and reproductive rights.
- Provide information on reproductive health care access and public policy issues to elected officials.
- Help provide access to a full range of reproductive health services in urban and remote communities across the state, including Emergency Contraception.
Public Education Web Site
The Alliance for Reproductive Justice web site features information and state and federal news about reproductive health and rights. It provides networking services and online access to Alaska progressive and pro-choice organizations.
Lessons learned by the Alliance in site development are shared with our partners.
Alliance for Reproductive Justice
The Alliance for Reproductive Justice is a statewide coalition of organizations working together to protect and promote reproductive rights and services through education, advocacy and referrals.
The Alliance for Reproductive Justice promotes policies and practices that protect women's access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care through education and grassroots organizing strategies. We seek to empower women, girls and men to improve reproductive health care services, including abortion care, and related policies in Alaska. We achieve this by coordinating actions and facilitating cooperation among Alaskan organizations committed to choice.
Coalition partners include local and statewide health, religious, women's, pro-choice and other advocacy and professional groups, including the Alaska chapters of the National Association of Social Workers, the ACLU and Planned Parenthood.
Click here to read the recent Compass piece on Reproductive Justice.
2007 Women's Summit participants with Governor Palin. Sarah Palin is not pro-choice or a supporter or leader on Women's and Children's Issues. In 2007, Women's Summit attendees delivered an open letter to Governor Palin asking to work together on five issues of concern for women and children in Alaska. Although we disagree with her anti-choice position and support of abstinence only education and teaching creationism in public schools, we hoped that she would understand that there are issues we could work together on to find solutions.
GOVERNOR PALIN DID NOT DELIVER AND DID NOT TAKE A LEADERSHIP ROLE ON ANY OF THESE ISSUES. IN FACT, THIS YEAR WHEN THERE WAS A 7 BILLION DOLLAR STATE SURPLUS SHE DID NOT STEP UP TO THE PLATE FOR THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN OF ALASKA TO HELP INCREASE THE INCOME GUIDELINES FOR HEALTH INSURANCE FOR LOW INCOME WOMEN IN ALASKA. WE WERE TRULY DISAPPOINTED WITH HER LACK OF ACTION ON THIS CRITICAL PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE.
Our letter asked for her support and leadership to:
Increase funding for Denali Kid Care (Alaska's SCHIP Program, Alaska is one of a minority of states that fails to fund health insurance for families at 200% of the federal poverty level.)
Decrease the incidence of domestic violence and sexual assault in Alaska (Alaska’s rape rate is 2.5 times the national average, Alaska is #1 in the nation for women murdered by men)
Provide state support for shelters that accept women with children (Many shelters are at capacity and many can not accept women with children.)
Support working mothers by enacting laws that allow for breastfeeding in the workplace (There were bills in the legislature each year that would have required breaks for women.)
Provide medically accurate sex education in public schools (In Alaska, we lead the country in the rates of Chlamydia and Gonorrhea and have high rates of teen pregnancy.)
For more information, please call 907.334.3055.
