ABORTION NEWS

 

Check out this video. Donations are drying up in the red states where abortion is illegal, but the need is strongest there to continue the work. Contraception, prenatal care and safe aftercare for miscarriages is still needed. In Alabama, Black infant and maternal mortality are some of the highest in the nation. Folks are getting abortion pills online and need safe aftercare, since ERs won't help them.

 

PLEASE donate to Yellowhammer Fund in Tuscaloosa and/or the Roe Center in Huntsville. Every dollar is needed as donations are drying up. From one abortion provider: "Honestly I'm struggling out here. No one wants to fund a clinic unless it explicitly provides abortion. They would much rather spend $2000 on helping one person leave the state for a blue abortion that takes a week, than that same amount providing follow up for 10 women right here where they live in Alabama"

Yellowhammer Fund: https://action.yellowhammerfund.org/a/wawc

Roe Center: https://www.roecenter.org/donate

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- The House passed legislation 7/21/22 to codify access to contraception nationwide with all but eight Republicans voting in opposition. The Right To Contraception Act would establish a federal right to purchase and use contraception without government restriction. The measure, however, is expected to fail in the evenly divided Senate, where the measure will need 60 votes to break a likely Republican filibuster. A federal appeals court panel, meanwhile, allowed a Georgia law banning abortions after about six weeks to go into effect. In the ruling, the panel wrote that the Supreme Court case that overturned Roe v. Wade “makes clear that no right to abortion exists under the Constitution, so Georgia may prohibit them.” The court’s opinion also referred to the health care providers who filed the lawsuit as “abortionists,” rather than “plaintiffs.” (NBC News / New York Times / Axios / Wall Street Journal)

 

 

 

To support those managing their own medical abortions, please donate to SASS (link to their fiscal sponsor here)

Check out:
Robin Marty's timely book, New Handbook for a Post Roe America.

And, if you can, please donate to the clinics in the red states struggling to stay open to serve the huge needs of poor women in their states for reproductive healthcare:
- Whole Women's Health  and Whole Women's Health Alliance with clinics closing in Texas, are buying a clinic in New Mexico to serve Texans needing abortions. The clinic will be near the Texas border. Donate here.

- Abortion Care Network of independent abortion providers serving the majority of women getting abortions in the USA.

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