Reproductive Freedom Tour in Lower Manhattan

Broadway and Park Row,New York NY 10007

20 June, 2021

Description

This tour traces the people and places in New York that have been instrumental in the fight for reproductive health, rights and justice. This tour looks at the struggle for reproductive freedom, and the adversaries that they’ve encountered along the way. While walking through old New York, Tribeca, Soho and Greenwich Village, this tour connects the past and the present. Focusing on the 100 years from the end of the Civil War to the 1970s, the tour also looks at the universal desires for reproductive freedom and the struggles that still exist today. Themes Covered: History & Status of Reproductive Freedom, Rights, Health & Justice, Changes in Abortion Laws, Suppression of & Access to Contraception & Birth Control, Related & Intersectional Issues of Bodily Autonomy, Maternal Mortality, Activism, Safety, Nondiscrimination, Equality, Human Rights