Happy pride month! Upcoming events and news
June 7, 2024
Happy pride month! Here’s what’s new at UnRestrict Minnesota:
UnRestrict is Hiring: Senior Campaign Manager
Want to help manage the UnRestrict Minnesota coalition? Apply to be the UnRestrict Minnesota Senior Campaign Manager! The campaign manager will manage a multi-racial, cross-sector campaign and 32-member coalition to educate and engage Minnesotans on abortion restrictions and reproductive justice in Minnesota, advocate for reproductive freedom at the Minnesota Legislature, and support on-going litigation aimed at striking down the current abortion restrictions.
Pro-Choice Minnesota: Dunk on Dobbs
On June 24, 2022 the landmark Dobbs v. Jackson Supreme Court decision sent shockwaves through the reproductive justice movement when Roe v. Wade was overturned, stripping away the legal right to an abortion for millions of Americans. It’s more important now than ever before to build community and fight against these restrictive bans. That’s why Pro-Choice Minnesota is gathering reproductive freedom activists and allies at A Bar of Their Own, the Twin Cities’ first sports bar dedicated to broadcasting and highlighting women’s sports, for a night of resistance while celebrating the progress we have made here in Minnesota to protect reproductive freedom.
Film Screening: “Under G-d”
NCJW and the Courts Matter Coalition will host a screening of “Under G-d,” a documentary film about the national Jewish response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Jess Braverman, Legal Director at Gender Justice, will join the event to speak about her abortion litigation work with pro-abortion religious groups!
Our Justice: Education & Art Build
On June 11 at 6pm, Our Justice will be holding an event for a night of education and art making about protecting abortion access at the Spill Paint Not Oil Studio. They will talk about the current state of abortion access both in Minnesota and around the country, the threats to medication abortion, the movement to protect abortion access, and mutual aid efforts to ensure anyone can access care.
You can find the address and details here!
Continuing the Fight Against CPCs
Gender Justice released a statement this week regarding the data practices at crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs), and how they could put Minnesotan’s private health data at risk.
Last week, Jessica Valenti’s Abortion, Every Day reported on a series of Heartbeat International training videos which appear to show the anti-abortion organization revealing the names and personal health information of over a dozen women. The videos also appear to confirm that Heartbeat collects identifiable health information from clients of its affiliate CPCs and makes that data available to an unknown number of staff and volunteers for nonessential purposes.