additional readings

Doulas in the News

Mahoney, Mary. 2010. “The Doula Movement: Making the Radical a Reality by Trusting Pregnant Women.” RH Reality Check. January 27.
Perez, Miriam. 2007. “On Being a Radical Doula.” Feministing Blog, February 20. Accessed 3/16/2012.
Meltzer, Marisa. 2010. “What’s an Abortion Doula? They’re Strangers Who Will Hold Your Hand While you Go Under the Knife.” Slate.
Miller, Kelsey. 2014. “Abortion Doulas: Inside the Movement.” Refinery29.
Morin, Roc. 2014. “On Being an Abortion Doula. The Range of Emotions Involved in Helping Women Terminate Pregnancies.” The Atlantic.
Ronan, Alex. 2014. “My Year As An Abortion Doula.” New York Magazine.
White, Rachel R. 2011. “The Rise of the Abortion Doula.” Observer.
Smith, S.E. 2016. “The Doula Project is Bringing Both Abortion and Birth Care to Low-Income Women in NYC.” XoJane.
Tucker, Eleanor. 2014. “Death Doulas: Helping People Face Up to Dying. The Guardian.

Rewire, a nonprofit daily online publication reporting on issues of sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice.
Radical Doula, a blog and resource that focuses on the connections between social justice, birth activism, and doula care.
The Midwife Is In, an advice column about health care, vaginas, pregnancy, sex, and so much more!

Silliman, Jael. Fried, Marlene Gerber. Ross, Loretta. Gutiérrez, Elena R. 2004.
Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice. Cambridge: South End Press.
Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights by Katha Pollitt
Birth Work as Care Work: Stories from Activist Birth Communities by Alana Apfel
Ginsburg, Faye D. 1998. Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community. University of California Press.
Ross, Loretta. 2006. “The Color of Choice: White Supremacy and Reproductive Justice.” Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology. INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence. Massachusetts: South End Press. 53-65.
Simonds, Wendy, Barbara Katz Rothman, and Bari Meltzer Norman. 2007. Laboring On: Birth in Transition in the United States. New York: Routledge.
Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction. Faye D. Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press.

"A Guide to Your Reproductive Resources: Wesleyan and Beyond" Zine, created by WDP members in 2018
Guttmacher Institute. 2016. “Fact Sheet: Induced Abortion in the United States.”
National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF). 2015. “Fact Sheet: Why We Oppose Sex-Selective Abortion Bans.” Available at
#ShoutYourAbortion, a network of voices working to destigmatize abortion through dialogue
1 in 3 Campaign, a grassroots movement to start a new conversation about abortion.

SisterSong. “What Is Reproductive Justice?” and “We Believe Reproductive Justice Is….” and “Mission.” SisterSong Women of Color Collective.
Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice (ACRJ). 2005. “A New Vision for Advancing Our Movement for Reproductive Health, Reproductive Rights, and Reproductive Justice.” Oakland, CA.
National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health. “Who We Are,” and “What We Do, Abortion Access.”
Reproductive Justice Briefing Book: A Primer on Reproductive Justice and Social Change