This is WHARR:
Womxn’s Health and Reproductive Rights

We believe that controlling one’s own bodily autonomy is a fundamental right. This must include the right to decide all aspects of one’s own reproductive health, including access to safe, legal abortions; the right to safe, economically secure pregnancy and parenthood; and the right to safety, health, and equal protection under the law, irrespective of one’s gender identity, race, ethnicity, religion, disability status, or sexual orientation.

We promote gender equity, womxn's health, sexual and reproductive rights, safe and dignified childbirth, and secure parenthood. We believe that these goals can only be realized in a larger context of racial, environmental, and economic justice. We take action for positive legislative change; work to elect progressive candidates; and fight against regressive policies that harm womxn’s health and well-being.

A grassroots group based in Brooklyn, NY, we hold monthly meetings and other events to share our work with the community. We welcome new members committed to our cause.

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE BATTLEFRONT

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Postcarding in the Park

Monday, August 30, 6:00-7:30 pm
Prospect Park, near the 15th St./Bartel Pritchard Square entrance

Please join us as we write postcards to voters in Virginia encouraging them to vote for Democrats running for the State House in the November election. All are welcome! We will be socially distant.

WHARR will supply the postcards and addresses. Bring your own pens/markers, stamps, blankets or chairs, and a surface to write on. Picnic snacks and drinks encouraged.

RSVP here

Today, February 1, 2021, is the beginning of #BlackHistoryMonth. It’s been more than 300 years since 1619. Black maternal mortality is a serious crisis in this country. Racist police violence is a serious crisis in this country. White supremacists - who overlap significantly with anti-abortion agitators and trolls - operate as domestic terrorists, complicit with some elected officials. “The fight for #ReproductiveJustice and the fight to end police brutality go hand in hand,” @ReneeBraceySherman told people in the NY Times – four years ago, in 2017. We are at a key moment for ensuring that the slim Democratic majority in the US Senate and the Democratic supermajority in the NYS Senate allows for the bold action necessary for real justice for all. #BLM #BHM
ABORTION. Don’t shy away from using that word. It’s the 48th anniversary of Roe v. Wade �- and the 2nd Anniversary of New York State's Reproductive Health Act. #RHA Roe v. Wade is still the law of the land in all 50 states, yet the previous administration’s SCOTUS appointees and the COVID-19 pandemic threaten to restrict these hard-won victories. Roe’s the floor for reproductive health & justice. #repost @nirhaction @shoutyourabortion @reproaction @allaboveall @reprorights
On this #NationalHugging Day, we hold in our hearts people locked in solitary confinement in prisons, jails & immigrant detention, who are suffering extreme isolation without a loved one’s touch for months, years, and even decades. An overwhelming majority of New Yorkers want to end the torture of solitary confinement. On #NationalHuggingDay, we’re thanking our legislators for their support and urging them to find a way to bring this critical bill to the floor for a vote. Pass #HALTsolitary and end the torture now.
Every day of the past four years have felt like an assault. Four hundred thousand people have died. Many more will die before the virus is contained. Just as virulent is the scourge of systemic racism. Families have been ripped apart; avarice and hate has been cravenly rewarded by an administration that sunk so low, it reached no bottom. Finally: Welcome, Joe & Kamala. You’re going to restore sanity, truth, and justice to our government more powerfully than ever before. It’s going to be a really difficult job. Every individual in the universe should have the right to safety, health, and equal protection under the law, irrespective of their gender identity, race, ethnicity, religion, disability status, or sexual orientation. A better, more just world is worth fighting for every day. We know the fight’s not over, but the sunlight shines brighter now that you’re here to lead. #BidenHarris #thisisWHARR
“The problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power.” - Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King was resolute about eradicating racism, poverty & militarism; it’s way past time to enact the policies necessary to address systemic racism and advance equity. #MLK
Everyone: It seems incredible that another momentous #election is less than 9 months away. Bu it is! You’re going to voting for the next Mayor of NYC soon. The primary is June 22, and the election is November 2. 2021 already, right? We bet you have a lot of questions for the NYC Mayoral candidates, don’t you? Now’s your chance to ask them! WHARR is part of the coalition of Brooklyn-based grassroots organizations hosting a Democratic Mayoral Candidate Forum, Tuesday, January 19th, 6:30-9:30 p.m.  Over a dozen Democratic candidates running for New York City Mayor in the 2021 election will be virtually Zooming with you & plenty others. You can submit questions in advance; we’ll post that information soon, stay tuned. Closed captioning and Spanish translation will be available.

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