WOVEN TOGETHER: Religious Liberty Law & Abortion Restrictions
Workshop 5 of a 6 part series
Tuesday, November 19
7:00PM - 8:30PM EDT
Woven Together:
Religion & Reproductive Justice
Political Education Series
Tuesdays this fall 7-8:30pm ET. Full Schedule Below.
Join SACReD for a 6-part virtual learning series this fall! We are hosting regular opportunities for the SACReD alliance to learn from our partners across the movement.
As we shift the culture to make Reproductive Justice a lived reality, we recognize that our political, religious, and reproductive lives are all woven together. We are watching the forces of White Christian Nationalism threaten our families and our communities every day. SACReD acknowledges that Christian communities have disproportionately contributed to the rise of Christian supremacy in this country. Therefore, Christian communities and those of us with Christian lineages have a particular responsibility to promote healing, bring new understanding, and challenge the forces of White Christian Nationalism this election cycle and into the future.
We are bringing together experts to cover the legal, political, theological, and cross-movement intersections of religion and reproductive justice. When we understand how all of our struggles are inextricably linked, we can continue to deepen our solidarity in the pursuit of liberation and justice for all.
Join us as we gather the alliance together, deepen our political and theological understandings, and learn from our partners and their work across the movement.
Religious Liberty Law & Abortion Restrictions
Dr. Christine Ryan
Through the abortion debate, Christian conservatives commandeered the authority to define what it means to be “religious” and erased pro-choice religious beliefs from the public square. In reality, religions differ between and among themselves on the issue of abortion. What’s more, the central issues of reproductive justice—how to constitute a family, whether to bear children, how to define marriage, and how to raise children—are also fundamental to religious liberty. In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, and its attendant proliferation of state restrictions on abortion, people of faith in multiple states have initiated legal challenges to restrictive abortion laws based on the right to religious freedom. Women and faith leaders in several states have filed suit under state constitutions and religious freedom restoration acts, asserting their religious convictions in favor of abortion and challenging the imposition of state-led theological dictates on their lives. In some cases, plaintiffs argue that their state’s abortion ban impedes their ability to practice tenets of their faith involving reproductive decision making. Others claim that abortion restrictions are religiously-motivated laws that favor some religions over others and impose a religious view on those who do not share it. These lawsuits now filed against state abortion bans reclaim religion for pro-chice people of faith. But a religious liberty strategy to challenge abortion bans also presents some risks—including expanding the right to religious exemptions in ways that could be harmful in other contexts. Moreover, religious exemption claims seen as “progressive” have typically not fared as well in courts as conservative claims.
How to Register
Accessing this series is free, with a suggested donation of $25 per workshop, or $150 for the full series.
In this season of political upheaval, we know that our alliance needs the medicine of this series. We have created these learning opportunities in response to our community's questions. For that reason, there is no cost to attend. As we live into our values of Reproductive Justice and our Womanist Ways of Operating, we also want to support the leaders sharing their wisdom with us, and work to cover the administrative costs of running SACReD as an organization. As we practice communal care and collectivism, we offer this series on a sliding scale with a suggested donation of $25 per workshop, or $150 for the full series, and we welcome additional donations if you have the means.
When you go to the registration page, you will find options for individual workshop and full series registration across a range of price points.
To register at no cost, please chose the YARN Series Ticket.
To register on the sliding scale, please choose the single workshop or series ticket that fits your needs.
Don't see an option that works for you? You can also register at the Yarn Series/no cost level and share a love offering with SACReD through our donation page.
IMPORTANT DETAILS
- You must register for each individual workshop. This gives us an accurate count of who is planning to attend, which allows our presenters to prepare, increases security, and ensures you will not miss any important information related to the session(s).
- If you choose a full-series ticket, you will receive a follow up email with a code and instructions for how to register for free for all additional workshops.
- Each attendee must register individually. We are not able to offer group registrations for this series.
QUESTIONS or Need a Different Registration Option? Reach out to Lyndsey at info@sacreddignity.org.
ACCESSIBILITY
Language Accessibility
Material Accessibility
Auto-captioning will be available for all workshops. If you have other language accessibility needs, please share them during registration. Our team will do our best to accommodate requests.
All workshops will be recorded and available to all workshop registrants, about 24 hours after the workshop has concluded within the Ring App.
Whenever possible we will make slide shows and other materials from the presenters available at the beginning of the workshop. Materials will also be available alongside the workshop recording.
SERIES SCHEDULE
September 24, 7-8:30 PM
October 1, 7-8:30 PM ET
October 22, 7-8:30 PM ET
October 29, 7-8:30 PM ET
November 19, 7-8:30 PM ET
December 3, 7-8:30 PM ET
Resisting Power & Control: RJ Lessons from the Anti-Sexual Violence Movement
What You Need to Know about Dominionism & the New Apostolic Reformation
There's Some Ho's in this House!
Abortion Stigma for Clergy and Faith Leaders
Religious Liberty Law and Abortion Restrictions
Toward Eve's Exodus: Challenging Male-centric Beliefs About Procreation
WORKSHOP DETAILS
SEPTEMBER 24, 7-8:30 PM ET
Resisting Power & Control: RJ Lessons from the Anti-Sexual Violence Movement
Togor Gado & Tara Corbett
Reproductive Justice and Anti-Sexual Violence Advocacy are deeply intertwined, and often combat the same systems of oppression. Taking lessons from their anti-sexual violence work and both professional and lived experiences as Christian-identified people, Tara and Togor offer faith-informed ways to strengthen the reproductive freedom movement, both conceptually and practically.
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OCTOBER 1, 7-8:30 PM ET
What You Need to Know about Dominionism & the New Apostolic Reformation
Rev. Naomi Washington-Leapheart, Frederick Clarkson, & Rachel Tabachnick
Knowledge about our formidable opponents is critical to developing smart defensive and offensive capabilities in the struggle for reproductive freedom–and religious freedom. This session will discuss the religious and political dominionism that drives key elements of the opposition.
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OCTOBER 22, 7-8:30 PM ET
There's Some Ho's in this House!
Min. Constance Dunlap
Cardi B ain’t the only one aware of the power of her sexuality. There are key Biblical ancestors who secured the future of their people by subversively engaging their sexuality...
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OCTOBER 29, 7-8:30 PM ET
Abortion Stigma for Clergy & Faith Leaders
Min. Constance Dunlap
1 in 4 people have had an abortion in their lifetime. Clergy and faith leaders are often the ones who help those accessing abortion navigate the responses and judgments of others and provide theological support to ease spiritual and moral concerns about this aspect of reproductive health care…
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NOVEMBER 19, 7-8:30 PM ET
Religious Liberty Law and Abortion Restrictions
Dr. Christine Ryan
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, and its attendant proliferation of state restrictions on abortion, people of faith in multiple states have initiated legal challenges to restrictive abortion laws based on the right to religious freedom. Is it possible to strengthen these religious exemption claims in support of reproductive justice?
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DECEMBER 3, 7-8:30 PM ET
Toward Eve's Exodus: Challenging Male-centric Beliefs About Procreation
Dr. Elizabeth Freese
Reproductive Justice is only possible when female human beings (symbolized by Eve) have full personhood, autonomy, agency, and dignity with respect to their capacities for menstruation, conception, gestation, and abortion. How do we take the current, culturally hegemonic story of procreation and transform it to advance Eve's exodus from patriarchal domination? How do we liberate our legal system from creating laws on false biblical narratives of life beginning at conception?
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