Black Women for Wellness’ 26th Annual Reproductive Justice Conference to Feature Bold Abortion Care and Access Panel – Black Women for Wellness

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Black Women for Wellness’ 26th Annual Reproductive Justice Conference to Feature Bold Abortion Care and Access Panel 

(Los Angeles, CA / July 28, 2025) — Black Women for Wellness (BWW) will host its 26th annual Reproductive Justice Conference, Minding Our Own Black Business: Reclaiming Rest, Resilience and Liberation, on Thursday, August 7, 2025, at The California Endowment Center in Los Angeles, starting at 8:00 a.m. PT.

In a world that demands Black women constantly push beyond their limits, the 2025 Reproductive Justice Conference centers a powerful theme rooted in self-determination — a commitment to protecting our bodies, honoring our choices, and unapologetically reclaiming our rest as we balance activism. 

This year’s conference will include a main stage panel on abortion justice, titled, “Abortion Justice: A Conversation on Care, Criminalization, and Community Power”.

Abortion care has existed long before it was medicalized, legislated, or policed. Today, even in pro-choice states like California, Black women still face clinic closures, rising abortion costs, systemic barriers, and limited post-abortion support despite legal protections.

This session will explore the full spectrum of abortion care and justice, including:

• Current challenges facing clinics in California and across the country
• The legal landscape: state and federal bans, targeted litigation, and shifting court rulings
• The role of self-managed abortion and community access to resources like Plan C
• Abortion criminalization and its disproportionate impact on Black communities
• The growing cost of abortion and barriers to coverage
• The threat of fake abortion clinics, misinformation campaigns, and anti-abortionists
• Data privacy and digital surveillance concerns, from period tracking apps to border stops
• Reimagining abortion access as a safe haven in an increasingly authoritarian political landscape
• The critical need for holistic, community-rooted models of abortion support, including abortion doulas and healing justice frameworks

Panelists include:

• Ash Williams, abortion doula, trans advocate, and co-steward of the international Abortion Doula Training (ADT) program
• Beulah Osueke, coach, strategist, organizer, and Executive Director for New Voices for Reproductive Justice
• Nancy Davis, maternal health and abortion access advocate, founder of the Nancy Davis Foundation
• Nourbese Flint, President of All* Above All and founding director of Black Women for Wellness Action Project
• Facilitated by Tyla Adams, Program Manager of BWW’s Sisters in Control Reproductive Justice Program

“We’re approaching abortion not as a debate, but as a deeply human experience rooted in history, dignity, healing, and community,” said Adams, “because this conference is about reclaiming our care, our communities, and our power. From the critical insights of policy leaders to the wisdom of abortion doulas and advocates, we are reclaiming our full spectrum of reproductive care. Because a legal right means little without real access.” 

Conference participants will also learn how to protect the reproductive health and overall well-being of Black women and girls from workshops and breakout sessions that highlight: 

• Maternal & Infant Health  
• Civic Engagement
• Infertility & Fibroids
• Beauty Justice 
• Environmental Justice 
• Grown and Sexy (menopause + sexual health for women over 40)
• Men’s Track, and more

We invite birth workers, healthcare professionals, youth leaders, elders, and community advocates to join this space for dialogue, shared insights, restoration, and collective healing.

“Black women are not machines built to survive oppression. We are human beings with the right to rest, to joy, and to care,” says Janette Robinson Flint, Executive Director of Black Women for Wellness. “This year’s theme is a declaration rooted in the heart of the Reproductive Justice movement: the right to have children, not have children, and to parent in safe and sustainable environments. Reproductive Justice demands access and liberation. Minding Our Own Black Business is about balancing activism while reclaiming our time, health, and futures from systems that have long profited from our labor while ignoring our pain. This year we will reimagine what true justice looks like.”     

Tickets for the 26th Annual Reproductive Justice Conference are available here. For additional information, including sponsorship and volunteer opportunities, please visit our website or email [email protected].

About Black Women for Wellness
Founded in 1997, Black Women for Wellness is a California-based nonprofit committed to the health and well-being of Black women and girls. Through education, policy advocacy, and leadership development, BWW advances reproductive justice and builds community power.

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