Friday, March 22, 2024: 9-10am
Multiple social conditions interfere with people’s right not to have children but also to have children and raise them with dignity in safe, healthy, and supportive environments. Webinar attendees will explore the major tenets of reproductive justice and how to apply the framework to advance their reproductive health and rights advocacy.
Our Speaker:
DeShawn Taylor, MD
CEO of Desert Star Institute for Family Planning
Dr. DeShawn Taylor (she/her) is an award-winning Gynecologist, Family Planning Specialist, and Gender-Affirming Care Provider, advancing reproductive health care access through direct services, education and training, advocacy, and leadership and is a member of the AZPHA Board of Directors.
Dr. Taylor is CEO of Desert Star Institute for Family Planning, a nonprofit reproductive justice organization, committed to creating equitable access to reproductive and sexual health care while centering Black, Indigenous, and people of color. Dr. Taylor is a keynote speaker, author, and trusted voice for abortion and reproductive justice.
Her book “Undue Burden: A Black Woman Physician on Being Christian and Pro-abortion in the Reproductive Justice Movement”, provides a new prism from which to address the attack on abortion rights in America.