The Muslims on the front line of America’s abortion clampdown
“A lot of the conversation about abortion access here in the US is steeped in Christianity,” says Ja’Loni, an abortion doula working in Georgia. “Even when pro-choice initiatives are presented as targeting faith-based communities, it sort of defaults to Christianity.”
Ja’Loni avoids sharing their full name online due to the nature of their work. They are part of the Ad’iyah Collective — a group that, for the past two years, has been helping Muslim Americans access their “divine right to bodily autonomy” while abortion rights are dramatically rolled back.
Ja’Loni accuses the US of hypocrisy when it comes to reproductive rights. “On the one hand, the west frames Muslims and Islam as inherently misogynistic and anti-abortion,” they say. “Then, when members of this community want to exercise our reproductive freedom in the United States, for example, Muslims can’t find culturally competent reproductive care providers and many of us live in regions where abortion specifically is not accessible.”
Those who need to terminate a pregnancy are then left relying on their own research and resources to access the procedure through medication or by travelling out of state. This is where Ja’Loni steps in.
Maya, who is using a pseudonym, found out six months after Roe was struck down that her foetus had a rare chromosomal condition and would not survive outside the womb. “I felt alone,” she says. “The doctors in Texas told me that my pregnancy was unviable, but that was it.”
They told her only that she could travel out of state to get an abortion: “I had to do all the research myself.”
Health, Education, Advocacy, Research and Training (Heart), a Muslim reproductive rights organisation, has recently launched a Reproductive Justice Fund to help abortion seekers meet the costs of abortion care.
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“A lot of the conversation about abortion access here in the US is steeped in Christianity,” says Ja’Loni, an abortion doula working in Georgia. “Even when pro-choice initiatives are presented as targeting faith-based communities, it sort of defaults to Christianity.”
Ja’Loni avoids sharing their full name online due to the nature of their work. They are part of the Ad’iyah Collective — a group that, for the past two years, has been helping Muslim Americans access their “divine right to bodily autonomy” while abortion rights are dramatically rolled back.
Ja’Loni accuses the US of hypocrisy when it comes to reproductive rights. “On the one hand, the west frames Muslims and Islam as inherently misogynistic and anti-abortion,” they say. “Then, when members of this community want to exercise our reproductive freedom in the United States, for example, Muslims can’t find culturally competent reproductive care providers and many of us live in regions where abortion specifically is not accessible.”
Those who need to terminate a pregnancy are then left relying on their own research and resources to access the procedure through medication or by travelling out of state. This is where Ja’Loni steps in.
Maya, who is using a pseudonym, found out six months after Roe was struck down that her foetus had a rare chromosomal condition and would not survive outside the womb. “I felt alone,” she says. “The doctors in Texas told me that my pregnancy was unviable, but that was it.”
They told her only that she could travel out of state to get an abortion: “I had to do all the research myself.”
Health, Education, Advocacy, Research and Training (Heart), a Muslim reproductive rights organisation, has recently launched a Reproductive Justice Fund to help abortion seekers meet the costs of abortion care.
https://hyphenonline.com/2025/01/15/abor...ald-trump/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
