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A smiling Black woman in clothes made of colorful patterned Kente cloth.
Loretta Ross in 2005.

The Reproductive Justice framework is created.

Date: 1994

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Loretta Ross in 2005.

The term Reproductive Justice (RJ) is coined by Loretta Ross, co-founder and National Coordinator for the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective from 2005-2012.

Ross defines RJ as: "a critical theoretical framework promoted by activist women of color to more effectively describe how the intersections of gender, race, class, ability, nationality, and sexuality influence reproductive politics in the United States to produce a complex matrix of reproductive oppression" (Ross et al, 2017).