A guided workbook that helps readers move beyond "choice" and take meaningful action through the framework of Reproductive Justice.
When Roe fell, millions were left scrambling for clarity, direction, and hope. Reproductive Justice offers a way forward grounded in dignity, equity, and real freedom.
Beyond Choice is a workbook that helps you move beyond the old, narrow "pro-choice" framework to a more comprehensive understanding of reproductive freedom. This guided workbook shows what Reproductive Justice truly means, how it impacts your daily life, and what you can do right now to create meaningful change.
Written by award-winning physician and Reproductive Justice advocate Dr. DeShawn Taylor, Beyond Choice turns reflection into action. Through practical exercises, case studies, and thoughtful prompts, you'll explore your beliefs, values, experiences, and power. You'll see how reproductive freedom intersects with faith, culture, identity, healthcare, and policy-and how your story can become a catalyst for justice.
Whether you're stepping into this conversation for the first time or deepening your work, Beyond Choice offers an accessible, empowering path to understanding and sustained action through Reproductive Justice.
Why This Workbook Matters Now
Reproductive Justice recognizes that true freedom includes: ⢠the right to bodily autonomy ⢠the right to have children ⢠the right not to have children ⢠the right to parent children in safe, supported communities.This workbook shows how these principles shape everyday life and why they offer a more inclusive, powerful vision for change.
Inside This Workbook, You'll Discover:
- How to move beyond the limits of "choice" to a justice-centered framework
- Ways your healthcare experiences shape your beliefs-and how to reclaim your power
- How to talk about abortion and reproductive health with dignity and clarity
- Where faith and spiritual beliefs fit into reproductive freedom conversations
- How culture, race, and power influence access to care
- How to connect your values to political and community action
- Steps to prevent burnout and sustain your movement work
- Exercises and case studies to translate learning into impact
A Trusted Guide for a Transformative Journey
"Beyond Choice... a great read for anyone who wants to deepen their relationship to reproductive justice."
- Renee Bracey Sherman, co-author of Liberating Abortion
"An invaluable contribution... a powerful tool that moves readers beyond polarization."
- Marlene Gerber Fried, Professor Emerita, Hampshire College
"A transformational guide that takes reproductive justice off the shelf and makes it a reality."
- Pamela Merritt, Executive Director, Medical Students for Choice
"A must-have resource for those seeking meaningful activism."
- Susan Yanow, MSW, activist and RJ consultant
About the Author
Dr. DeShawn Taylor is a physician, scholar, clinic founder, and nationally recognized Reproductive Justice advocate. As an ob-gyn and abortion provider, she brings decades of clinical experience and community leadership to her work, helping people understand reproductive healthcare with clarity, compassion, and courage.
If you're ready to move from reflection to action and from uncertainty to confident engagement, this workbook will guide your journey toward a more just and liberated future.
Industry Reviews
"Beyond Choice expands upon Dr. DeShawn Taylor's works on abortion access and Reproductive Justice, this time in a workbook, allowing the reader to go on a journey to build upon their own understanding of abortion beyond the choice framework. This book is a great read for anyone who wants to deepen their relationship to Reproductive Justice." - RENEE BRACEY SHERMAN, Co-Author of Liberating Abortion
"Beyond Choice makes an invaluable contribution to the fight for Reproductive Justice. It is a powerful tool that can move readers beyond the unproductive, angry polarization that characterizes abortion politics at all levels-from kitchen tables to Congress. This is a book for abortion seekers, grassroots and policy activists, medical providers, and journalists. Reframing abortion in the broader justice context is a gift to individual patients, their families, and their communities. Dr. Taylor's deep knowledge and insights come from years spent as an ally, as an abortion provider, and as an advocate for compassionate and comprehensive care." -MARLENE GERBER FRIED, Hampshire College, Emerita Professor
"Beyond Choice is truly a gift to the reproductive health, rights, and justice movement that will guide readers from theory to action. Dr. DeShawn Taylor is a force for reproductive justice and a fierce advocate for her patients and all people seeking reproductive healthcare. She has studied the landscape, knows how we got to this moment of restriction and prohibition, and with Beyond Choice, she provides a transformational guide on how to take Reproductive Justice off the shelf and make it a reality." -PAMELA MERRITT, Executive Director, Medical Students for Choice
"As an abortion provider and social justice leader, Dr. DeShawn Taylor powerfully illustrates how to transform Reproductive Justice theory into action. She has created a best practice guide that will be useful not only for the reproductive health, rights, and justice movements, but also for the many other issue areas that intersect with our collective fight for liberation. Beyond Choice is essential reading for anyone who cares deeply about social progress and change." -BRITTANY FONTENO, President & CEO, National Abortion Federation
"Dr. Deshawn Taylor has brought her tremendous medical experience, and her profound lived experience to Beyond Choice. At a time where we are being confronted by rage, fear, anxiety, and uncertainty, this resource will help people to channel those feelings into something tangible that deepens us in our reproductive justice values and creates real change. It is my hope that this workbook will not just live on a shelf, but instead it will take flight in the deeds and actions of its readers, so that more of us can be transformed in the service of the work. -KWAJELYN J. JACKSON, Executive Director, Feminist Center for Reproductive Liberation
"At a time in which women's rights continue to be eroded at an alarming rate, there could be no more urgent moment for a work such as this. This book is the revolutionary roadmap needed to effectively fight back even in the face of life-threatening rights retrenchments and ultimately work towards achieving the goal of Reproductive Justice in America. With the practical tools, case studies, and exercises included herein, there is no longer any excuse to merely sit on the sidelines. The prescription has been written. Now it's up to us to initiate the remedy." -AVIS JONES-DEWEEVER, Ph.D., Principal, Nouveaux Strategies
