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“A New Era of Justice: Our Bodies, Our Voices, Our Freedom.” The conference will be held on August 15, 2024, at The California Endowment in Los Angeles from 8am-5:30pm PT.
Attorney General Rob Bonta has a distinguished history of advocating for reproductive rights in California. He was the first Attorney General to proactively go after “crisis pregnancy centers,” suing a chain of centers and an anti-abortion group over misleading advertisements of an unproven and largely experimental procedure known as “abortion pill reversal.” He led an investigation into statewide compliance with anti-implicit bias training for perinatal care providers, which found that not a single employee had been fully trained. As a result of the investigation, the Attorney General sponsored new legislation to ensure successful implementation of state-mandated implicit bias training to reduce the disproportionate maternal mortality rate of Black women.
Attorney General Bonta released the first-ever report on reproductive healthcare in California jails, highlighting the importance of ensuring reproductive rights for incarcerated individuals. Finally, he has also taken action to defend access to abortion and contraception, to ensure the privacy of patients receiving reproductive health care, to demand tech companies protect sensitive reproductive health data, and to protect those who come to California for care.
Attorney General Bonta will deliver his address at 9:30 a.m. His remarks will be followed by a keynote panel titled, “Designing our Future: Perspectives and Visions for a New Era of Justice and Liberation.”
The keynote panel will feature Deon Haywood, a nationally recognized leader in the reproductive justice movement and executive director of Women With A Vision, alongside Dazon Dixon Diallo, founder of SisterLove, the first women’s HIV, sexual, and reproductive justice organization in the southeastern United States.
This year’s theme, “A New Era of Justice: Our Bodies, Our Voices, Our Freedom,” provides a rich backdrop for stories on the evolving landscape of reproductive justice, the intersection of social justice issues, and the voices leading the charge for change.
Conference participants will have the opportunity to learn from keynote speeches, panel discussions, and breakout sessions that highlight critical topics such as maternal health, environmental justice, and civic engagement.