About RRFP
Our Mission
The Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project (RRFP) seeks to further Reproductive Justice by providing practical and financial support for abortion services in Virginia and surrounding communities. RRFP strives to be a resource to the community by engaging in grassroots advocacy for the full spectrum of reproductive rights.
Our Vision
The Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project supports access to a range of reproductive choices. Clients’ decisions when or whether to become parents are equally supported. RRFP’s mission lends specific focus to assisting people facing financial and institutionalized barriers to abortion services.
Reproductive justice is…
… a framework created by black women and supported by women of color that holds the human right to self define families, support them in healthy and loving ways, and live free from all violence.
Reproductive Justice (RJ) is a guiding framework for our organization, but we recognize that this work is complex and requires constant effort. Reproductive Justice was developed by women of color to create an intersectional movement that is led by those most affected by reproductive oppression. This framework addresses many issues that are not taken into account in the work of organizations that focus solely on reproductive rights.
“One of the key problems addressed by Reproductive Justice is the isolation of abortion from other social justice issues that concern communities of color: issues of economic justice, the environment, immigrants’ rights, disability rights, discrimination based on race and sexual orientation, and a host of other community-centered concerns. These issues directly affect an individual woman’s [and trans and gender nonconforming folks’] decision-making process. By shifting the focus of reproductive oppression—the control and exploitation of women, girls, and individuals through our bodies, sexuality, labor, and reproduction—rather than a narrow focus on protecting the legal right to abortion, SisterSong is developing a more inclusive vision of how to build a new movement.”