pro-choice

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The Project 2025 Iceberg

Project 2025 is worse than you may think. The policies you've heard of are bad. The ones floating beneath the surface amount to a plot to make America a white nationalist country.

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Let’s Protect 20 Years of Marriage Equality

On November 18, 2003, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled, in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, that the state constitution made it illegal to deny same-sex couples the right to marry.

Greater Than the Sum of our Parts

There are more than three dozen Indivisible groups in Massachusetts. Each has a unique mission. Each has its own personality. Separately, their work is amazing. Together they can greatly multiply their impact.

Stop calling them “pro-life.”

Imagine the scene: a “pro-life” organizer sends an email to her followers in which she appears to label reproductive rights activists, including legitimately ordained clergy, “the enemy” and accuses them of “killing, stealing, destroying, and deceiving.” She calls on followers to join her “spiritual army” and to be “ambassadors of His Truth.” 

Easthampton City Council passes ordinance on “crisis pregnancy centers.”

On July 5, progressive activists from western Mass. showed up at the Easthampton City Council meeting which was considering a modest ordinance that would provide information about reproductive and gender-affirming medical care, and protect people seeking those services from being reported to other states.

Who are you? Searching for truth at Attleboro Women’s Health …

I am a physician who has long been aware of, and done a fair amount of reading about, the anti-abortion centers (AACs, aka crisis pregnancy centers) that seek to bring all pregnancies to term. So when IMC’s Feminist Action Team asked for volunteers to attend open houses at several of these facilities in June, I didn’t hesitate. I went online to RSVP.

A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

I recently learned about “Crisis Pregnancy Centers” (CPCs) and feel compelled to shout from the rooftops the enraging facts I now know. These centers often pretend to provide pregnancy care. But they are usually no more than anti-abortion propaganda centers.

Fake clinics: Exposed!

On Mother’s Day weekend, the IMC Feminist Action Team organized activists across Massachusetts to hold coordinated stand outs at nine of the anti-abortion Crisis Pregnancy Centers in the state. Despite our state’s AG and Governor’s stance against these fake centers, there are between 30-60 of these unregulated anti-abortion centers in MA.

It’s all connected!

The midterms loom, and we're all needed to get out the vote. We did it in 2018, 2020 and we CAN and MUST do it again in 2022!

Who were the Janes?

At the height of the ‘60s, a group of young women in Chicago dropped out of the male-dominated civil rights and anti-war movements to do something about terrible experiences pregnant women were facing.

Bans Off Our Bodies rallies around Massachusetts

Indivisible members protested around the Commonwealth on May 14, 2022 to show our determination to protect abortion rights. Young and old, women and allies expressed their anger at Justice Alito’s dismissive draft opinion. The feeling in the crowd was angry and frustrated — but also energized, determined, and even humorous. Large rallies were held elsewhere in the state and around the U.S. to send a clear message: We’re not going back!