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Digital Rhetoric

Technology-based tactics used by activist groups to speak out against reproductive oppression can be linked to digital rhetoric. For example, women used social media to gather their forces in an attack against abortion bill HEA 1337 in 2016. Through their planning on an online announcement portal, participants would systematically call Mike Pence's office to offer information about their periods to prove the bill's problematic requirements. As a digital form of rhetoric, media can become more than just a way to exchange messages and can emerge as infrastructures in our lives.

As a concept that falls under digital rhetoric, technofeminism complements the framework and goals of reproductive justice. Both technofeminism and reproductive justice are centered on intersectionality and its emphasis on recognizing the existence of multiple, unique identities. Technofeminism reinforces the presence of digital spaces as useful for feminist activism, but these spaces can also empower the wrong groups in a given situation; this can be problematic intersectionally. Reproductive justice is at odds with such an issue because online spaces can empower both feminist activists and pro-life groups simultaneously, for example. Addressing the existence of power formations through notions of intersectionality will ensure that there is no indirect compliance with the behaviors these groups can exhibit. In addition, recognizing the connection between identity and power allows for more attentiveness toward technofeminist changes and diversity.

Additions to Reproductive Justice Wikipedia Page (Digital spaces and reproductive justice section)

Moving beyond contradictions about women and technology and exploring the ways these contradictions can be challenged allows for better opportunities to take action.

On March 28, 2016, "Periods for Pence" pages were created on Facebook and Twitter to combat HEA 1337. Organizers like Laura Shanley rallied women online to contact Pence's office and provide information on their reproductive health. Women were ultimately using digital means to represent their bodies and band together as a team of multiple identities with unique, individual experiences. (sources in this paragraph were added manually in actual wikipedia age)

Sites like the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League help to engage women with political activism. For example, some sites share petitions and links for voting/contacting political leaders so women can get involved despite their busy lives.