Abortion News, Actions, and Events
UPCOMING Event:
December 10, 3 - 5 pm PST, @ Acción Latina, 2958 - 24 St, SF, CA 94110. Meet the women in Guanjuato, México helping provide information about the Abortion Pill to women in the USA who can't access the Pill in their state. Read more about: Las Libres, and donate here.
Abortion organizations
Below are different groups that ARMS has vetted and supports. Whether you're interested in helping to financially support Abortion Funds (which help subsidize the costs for abortions), Policy and Legislative work to keep Abortions accessible and legal, Grassroots Organizing, Support for Independent Clinics, or providing Practical Support, each of the groups listed below are doing the work on the ground and deserve our support.
Too many already face barriers to abortion care, including restrictions, travel, and cost. We all need to become experts on how to get an abortion and how to connect other folks to abortion care.
We need to:
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Learn about self-managed abortion and become resources for those who need to know more about it
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Become our own support network to help folks in our communities facing long travel get rides and housing.
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Keep up the fight to ensure abortion is legal and available.
Youth activists are launching the Youth Abortion Support Collective (YouthASC), a nationwide network of young people committed to becoming expert resources on abortion and to making sure folks in our communities understand all the options and have the support they need.
We make choice possible.
For many in America, the costs and logistical challenges of getting to an abortion provider are primary barriers to access. The Brigid Alliance arranges and funds confidential, personalized travel support to support individuals across the country who are forced to travel for later abortion care in increasingly hostile environments.
In partnership with a network of funds and providers nationwide, we are closing the gap between the right to an abortion and the ability to access one.
The Brigid Alliance believes that the costs and logistics of traveling to an abortion provider should not inhibit choice. We help those in need after the first trimester.
The Abortion Bridge Collaborative Fund fund will have the dual purposes of building capacity in targeted areas in which abortion care will continue, and working towards legal access and legal protections in areas where it will not.
As a practical abortion fund, MAC helps people traveling to, from, and within the Midwest access a safe, legal abortion with support in the following areas: travel coordination and costs, lodging, food, medicine, and emotional support.
MAC is a practical abortion fund. We do not provide financial assistance for abortion procedures—instead, we assist with the other costs and difficulties associated with getting an abortion and our coordinators will work to connect you to the abortion procedure funds you may qualify for. If you are traveling to, from or within the Midwest to access safe and legal abortion services, we host and help with transportation.
Apiary is a national collective by and for groups that provide practical support.
Technical Assistance
We provide in-depth consulting services to new and existing practical support organizations within the abortion access movement to help them stabilize and grow their operations and programs. Contact us for more information.
Advocacy
We work to ensure that practical support becomes and remains an integral part of the conversations with funders, organizers, and other national networks within the abortion access movement.
Data Collection
There is very limited research around the use and impact of practical support; we work with practical support groups and researchers in the field to create robust data so that funders and external partners can understand the needs and value of PSOs.
ARC-SouthEast helps Southerners and their families navigate the pathways to access safe, compassionate, and affordable reproductive care by providing financial and logistical support and building power in our communities through advocacy, education, and leadership development.
Since the fall of Roe, the West Alabama Women’s Center Inc. has been serving women, in all aspects of reproductive health center in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, except abortions. We provide birth control options, telehealth consults for non-abortion related procedures and gender-affirming, evidence-based preventative reproductive health services. Ask us about all of our expanded, low out of pocket cost healthcare options. We are preparing for a post-Roe existence, and that means more contraceptives, more preventative healthcare, and more treating patients who are having poor pregnancy outcomes but are afraid to go to hospitals for help. But we can’t do that without your support. Will you give what you can to our Post-Roe Protection Fund. Click Here
In the wake of Dr. George Tiller’s assassination on May 31, 2009, Julie Burkhart founded Trust Women in order to honor his legacy and to continue fighting for reproductive rights. At the time of his murder, Dr. Tiller was one of the few physicians in the United States who provided later abortion care for women from across the United States, as well as from around the world. Our mission is to open clinics that provide abortion care in underserved communities, irregardless of where they live or ability to pay.
The ROE Center for Justice is committed to supporting comprehensive reproductive health services in Alabama. The Roe Center supports those who need miscarriage and birthing services and provides funding to train the next generation of doctors, nurses and doulas who are committed to providing reproductive health care in the South.
Whole Women's Health and their non-profit, Whole Women's Health Alliance serve women seeking abortion in Minnesota MN, Charlottesville NC, South Bend IN, and is soon opening a clinic in New Mexico. WWH/WWHA believes that everyone must be at the center of their own healthcare decisions. We are committed to destigmatizing abortion and creating safe spaces for all people.
We respect every individual’s right to choose, and as one of the first abortion clinics founded before Roe v. Wade, we have been providing abortions with respect, honesty, and care since 1971.
Building Funds and MediCaid Gap Funding
MediCaid delay - gap funding: this is a huge issue. States that do allow MediCaid to reimburse for abortion care still take forever to reimburse after the services are provided. The day-to-day costs of providing the abortions: rent, doctor and staff salaries, etc continue even though it will take months to get paid for the services provided. Clinic providers have said that that this is a huge issue. We could set up an account with RAD for providers accepting MediCaid, to fill in the gap between when service is given and when Medicaid reimbursements come in. This could be a revolving fund, paid back and reused over and over.
For more information on establishing a Medicaid Gap Fund for the network of Whole Women Health clinics, contact Kristin Landis at klandis@wholewomanshealth.com
To fund Medicaid gap funding in Alabama, please contact Robin Marty at West Alabama Women's Center.
RAD: Resources for Abortion Delivery
Resources for Abortion Delivery (RAD) seeks to protect and improve access to quality abortion care in the United States—particularly for poor and low-income people—by supporting the abortion care delivery system as it faces increasing challenges from economic forces, burdensome laws, and stigma.
YOUTH ORGANIZATIONS
ABORTION FUNDS
Independent Clinics
Abortion Care Network
Independent abortion clinics provide the majority of abortion care in the United States, serving three out of every five people who has an abortion. These clinics provide care when and where others do not — operating in the most hostile states and compassionately providing care as pregnancy progresses. Yet independent clinic closures are unrelenting: the total number of independent clinics in the US has been reduced by 30% since 2012. The Abortion Care Network provides support and coordination/trainings for independent clinics.