Stay up-to-date on the dismantling of USAID through Elissa Miolene’s writing on Devex.
Call your members of Congress and tell them to support foreign assistance, USAID, and UNFPA. You can reach the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121.
You can also learn more about the foreign aid freeze’s impact on family planning here.
Read MoreSubscribe to Law Dork and follow Chris Geidner on X.
Keep up with each executive order or attack on transgender health and rights. Pay attention to the news. Pay attention to the organizations that are filing these law suits, and support them.
Discuss the scope, breadth, and depth of the attack on transgender individuals with those you can. Reach out to your transgender friends and check on them.
Read MoreFollow Caitlin Horrigan on X and Lori Adelman on X. You can also find Lori’s podcast here.
Speak out about the global gag rule. Do not let it become normalized as a legislative status quo. Battle misinformation, spread true information, and don’t further stigmatize abortion in doing so. To learn more about the Global HER Act, click here.
For more information on Planned Parenthood’s response to the Trump expanded gag rule, you can find the press release Planned Parenthood Condemns Trump’s Reinstatement of the Deadly Global Gag Rule, here. A detailed report on the impact of the rule can be found here.
Read MoreTell your members of Congress that you want to see the Helms amendment repealed. You can call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121. You can also write or email.
Learn more about the Helms amendment and sexual and reproductive health and rights in emergency settings through rePROs Fight Back resources, The Helms Amendment Hurts Millions Worldwide Policy Brief, Sexual and Reproductive Health in Emergencies: Promising Practices to Address the Crisis within a Crisis, Sexual and Reproductive Health in Emergency and Humanitarian Settings, and How US Abortion Policy Harms Rape Survivors in Conflict Zones.
Read MoreFollow SisterLove on Facebook and X.
Find out who the reproductive justice and reproductive justice-adjacent organizations in your community are and support them through donation, volunteering, and spreading the word. Keep a careful eye out for crisis pregnancy centers, which will likely become more common.
Continue to pay attention to the law and policy work that is going on in your state legislature and get more engaged.
Have informed conversations with your friends, families, and communities.
Read MoreFollow the RCRC on X and Facebook and stay up-to-date with their important work.
Interrogate the messages picked up from your faith community and whether you’d like to challenge them or continue with them.
Learn about people’s stories and reproductive lives. You can find Rev. Zeh’s book, A Complicated Choice: Making Space for Grief and Healing in the Pro-Choice Movement, here on bookshop.org.
Read MoreFollow Susan Rinkunas on X.
Support abortion funds and other reproductive justice groups—especially those that are local. Advocate for politics at the state level, especially if you are in a purple state or in a state where sexual and reproductive health care can use more support.
If you feel safe, you can put up Plan C stickers to spread the word about self-managed abortion.
Read MoreFollow the American Jewish World Service on X and Facebook here. To learn more about the prospect of global human rights under the Trump administration, find our recent podcast episode here.
Don’t stay quiet—you can have conversations with friends and loved ones about how the U.S. exports anti-human rights policy abroad.
Be ready to act at any level of government. If you would like to reach out to your Congressional representatives about human rights and foreign policy, you can email, write, or reach the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121.
Contact your member of Congress and express your concern for SRHR abroad. You can write, email, or call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121.
Read MoreFollow PAI on Facebook and X. Make connections in conversation with your friends and family about the U.S.’ impact on sexual and reproductive health and rights abroad. You can share resources on the global gag rule, the Geneva Consensus Declaration, and Commission on Unalienable Rights. You can find some information through PAI’s globalgagrule.org, which will be updated once the rule is updated.
Contact your member of Congress and express your concern for SRHR abroad. You can write, email, or call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121.
Read MoreFollow Reproaction on Facebook and X.
Get educated on how self-managed abortion works! Others in your community might look to you for guidance. You can find more information with Reproaction.
Tell the White House Comment Form and your Senators that you want to see open judge seats filled without delay by those who will protect SRHRJ. You cand reach the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121.
Local state-based organizing is incredibly effective at protecting abortion rights. Stay involved with ballot initiatives if your state has recently done such work, and if your state hasn’t, get involved!
Read MoreFollow Katelyn Burns on X and find Cancel Me Daddy and the Flytrap here. To learn about the United States v. Skrmetti, find additional information here.
Learn from and listen to the trans community. Follow trans leaders and advocates like Gillian Brandstetter at the ACLU and Erin Reed. Make sure to speak up in situations where transphobia is displayed. During the second Trump administration, there will undoubtedly be protests against anti-trans hate—join them.
Read MoreYou can follow Florida Planned Parenthood Action on Facebook and X to stay up-to-date on their work.
Get in touch with your lawmakers. If you are in Florida, you can visit fappa.org to push for funding abortion care in clinics across the state. Funding can also be used for hiring medical professionals, security investments, and training call center employees.
To learn more about the recent amendment, click here. If you’d like to learn more about Florida’s 6-week ban, find our podcast episode here.
Follow Power to Decide on Facebook and X. You can find more information on the Youth Reproductive Health Access Survey here. You can also find key takeaways from the 2024 YouR HeAlth Survey here. Join Power to Decide’s webinar exploring the survey’s findings in depth on Nov. 19th.
Interested in exploring different birth control methods? Find Bedsider’s Method Explorer here.
Join the community for #ThxBirthControlDay on Nov. 14th! You can find Power to Decide’s toolkit here—share with the world why you’re thankful for birth control!
Read MoreIf you can, volunteer for, donate to, and spread the word about projects and organizations working on these issues, including Yellowhammer Fund in the South. You can also connect with Anneshia Hardy here.
Center the voices of those who are disproportionately impacted, particularly by including those voices at the decision-making table. This allows for building solidarity across racial and economic lines, which will be essential in the fight for sexual and reproductive health and rights.
It’s My Body. Period. uses art, peer-to-peer discussions, and culture to serve as an engine for continued conversation an on-ramp for those who may not be as involved in the fight for SRHRJ.
Read MoreFollow Power to Decide on Facebook and X. You can also find Rachel Fey on X here.
Join Power to Decide in shouting out why you love birth control access for #ThxBirthControl day! You can find more information here.
Take advantage of your down time when you have it and take care of yourself during that down time. Whether its reading, watching tv, playing sports—among many other things!—working in and caring about sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice can be an exhausting task.
Read MoreFollow Tarah Demant on X here. You can also follow Amnesty International USA on Facebook and X to stay up to date on their important work.
You can find the Amnesty International USA report, Abortion In the USA: The Human Rights Crisis After Dobbs, here. To learn more about pregnancy criminalization, you can find Pregnancy Justice’s report, The Rise of Pregnancy Criminalization: A Pregnancy Justice Report, here.
The U.S. must repeal Hyde and commit federal funding to subsidize abortion care. You can call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 to reach your congressmember and demand a repeal of Hyde.
Support Indigenous Women Rising’s work here, and if you can, donate to abortion funds here.
Read MoreFind the Preclusion Project here. You can also follow Beirne Roose-Snyder on X and Bergen Cooper on X.
Confront your Congress member with data on the GGR’s impact and illustrate the harm to women and girls around the world. You can reach the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121.
Read the data sheet from the Preclusion Project and learn more about the GGR’s direct affect.
Read MoreYou can find Jessica Mason Pieklo on X and her writing at Rewire News Group here. You can also follow Rewire News Group on X and Facebook, and find Boom! Lawyered here.
Invest your time, energy, and resources into your community! City councils, state elections, school boards, and abortion funds would love to see your action and energy.
You can also be an advocate at your dining room table. Talk to friends, family, and acquaintances about the importance of these cases, answer questions, and be a guide.
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