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Social Justice Advocacy in the Belly of the Beast

This article presents an experience of applied social justice advocacy to maintain and advance women’s reproductive rights and is a call to action for the entire social work profession. The reader is offered a strategy that can be used to effect broad policy change in all political climates. Drawing upon some fundamentals of the social work profession such as coalition building, advocacy engagement, and stakeholder outreach, this article shows how social workers can become engaged in the political arena to pass legislation. It is the author’s hope that this article will be used by social workers and social workers in training to deepen their commitment to women’s issues and social justice advocacy and facilitate their engagement in making policy change.