health movements were centering abortion care, the reproductive justice framework was “clear that the stories of Black women and reproductive health went beyond abortion. We were actually intentionally centering Black women’s full reproductive and sexual lives because we were frustrated with the reproductive health and reproductive rights movements’ continued narrow focus on abortion and not the full spectrum of reproductive and sexual health. While we believed that Black women needed access to abortion, we also understood that abortion was not the primary focus of Black women around their
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