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Author: Julie Jenkins

Julie Jenkins is a sexual and reproductive health nurse practitioner, abortion provider and mother. She is the Reproductive Health Access Project’s APC cluster leader and is completing her doctorate at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. She was previously the lead plaintiff in Jenkins v. Lynch, an ACLU lawsuit seeking to overturn Maine’s physician-only law.
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An Abortion Provider on Infertility: ‘Not Despite, Because’

Julie Jenkins
An Abortion Provider on Infertility: "Not Despite, Because"

People ask me: How could I perform abortion care while struggling for so many years to become pregnant?

As someone who believes in reproductive justice—a framework developed by Black women to address the intersections of race, gender, class, ability, nationality and sexuality—I am also a firm believer in its basic tenets.

So the better question is: How could I not? 

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