The Reproductive Rights Activist Collective (RRAC) is looking for our next cohort of amazing activists who want to start and lead new reproductive justice campaign groups across England and Wales. Reproductive justice means having control over our own bodies and the freedom to decide if, when and how to have children, and to raise our families in safe, healthy communities. What’s involved Our free 12-week online Bootcamp teaches you how to build relationships, develop leaders

An interview with Judith Orr, Vice Chair of Abortion Rights UK Credit: Judith Orr Judith Orr and I meet thanks to two apparent cornerstones of the 2026 activist experience: a WhatsApp group chat and a video call. With around nine hundred miles between us, we greet each other through grainy squares of video, wasting no time in getting down to business. Judith has been active within the campaign for access to safe reproductive healthcare in the UK for just shy of fifty years n

Caring for a newborn baby is hard, but the right support could make all the difference. At the centre of reproductive justice sits a central freedom: the choice whether to or not to have a child that should be yours to make. But what happens after this decision has been taken and the baby arrives? As well as abortion access, reproductive justice entitles everyone to an environment where it is safe to have, raise, and care for a child. Among other things, this requires a stron

Charlie (right) and fellow members of UoN RRAC at the team's launch event earlier this year. (Credit: Charlie Waring) Having been involved in community organising - in one way or another - for what feels like forever, third-year student, Charlie Waring, did not have to think long before deciding to apply to RRAC’s activist bootcamp last summer. First suggested to Charlie by one of their colleagues at Amnesty International UK, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to use t

RRAC was founded to nurture Community Organising (CO) for Reproductive Justice in England and Wales. In this article, we will explore what exactly Community Organising is. CO aims to harness the resources of a community - be they particular skills, knowledge, cultural traditions, or just strength in numbers – to leverage the change that the community desires. This distinguishes it from policy advocacy, which typically assumes that power rests with quite a small group of peopl

RRAC was founded to nurture Community Organising for Reproductive Justice in England and Wales. But what do these terms mean, and why do they work so well together? In this article, we will explore Reproductive Justice. The theoretical framework of Reproductive Justice was developed by black feminists in 1990s suburban Chicago in response to a growing sense that the women's rights movement, reflecting its middle-class/wealthy white leadership, did not sufficiently advocate fo

We want to share some reflections and learnings from our first EVER in-person workshop, which took place on 21st March in collaboration with Doctors for Choice, led by Ben, Ruby, Caroline, Alice and Doctors for Choice’s Dr Jayne Kavanagh. The workshop brought together people from across the UK reproductive rights and justice sector, with the aim of introducing community organising as an approach for Reproductive Justice. On a very sunny Saturday, we were so grateful that over