Follow Garnet Henderson on X and check out Garnet’s most recent writing.
Moderate your media consumption; stay informed but don’t feel the need to overwhelm yourself with difficult news.
Pay attention to what’s happening in your community—don’t let the mess of the federal government distract you from what’s happening in your own city, county, and state!
Read MoreIf you’d like to read more about the context of global gender equality, you can find the recent UN Women report here.
Call your members of Congress and tell them that you expect the rights of women, girls, and other marginalized people abroad to be protected, and that attacks to foreign assistance prevent those rights from being realized. You can call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121.
Reckon with the idea that maybe foreign assistance is not the answer for the global goals we are trying to achieve. Consider whether this is an inflection point to re-think if, instead, on-the-ground organizations should be better supported.
Read MoreFollow the Century Foundation on X and Facebook to stay up-to-date on their important work. You can also learn more about Black Maternal Health Week here, as well as the Black Mamas Matter Alliance here.
Participate in the Black Maternal Health Week webinars, gatherings, and events to continue to educate yourself. Offer monetary or volunteer support to the organizations that are making on-the-ground change.
Have conversations with people in your lives who may not know the reality of Black maternal health. And remember, Black Maternal Health Week doesn’t end on April 17th. Utilize that energy with you throughout the year and when engaging in political activism.
Read MoreFollow Jessica Mason Pieklo and Rewire News Group on X and other social media platforms! You can also find more information on the Boom! Lawyered live podcast recording here.
Figure out what your advocacy lane is. It might be calling your Congresspeople or representatives at the state or local level. It might be finding resources and donating to local, direct organizations that are helping people access their basic needs.
Build community wherever and however you can. Whether that’s art, music, literature, or advocacy, find your joy and strength in community.
Read MoreIf you haven’t already, follow rePROs Fight Back’s social media platforms! You can find us on X, Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky, and Threads. You can also follow host Jennie Wetter on X.
Check out the 50-State Report Card and see where your state stands. If you find something surprising on the report card website, contact your state lawmakers with facts in hand. You can also read more in rePROs Fight Back’s official press release here.
Share this information with friends, families, and loved ones. Everyone deserves to know the sexual and reproductive health and rights policies in their states, and especially the ways in which those policies intertwine with each other and disproportionately impact already marginalized groups.
Read MoreStay up-to-date with the work of the ACLU’s Reproductive Freedom Project here.
Know your rights. Find out what you can expect if the unfortunate scenario of a pregnancy emergency occurs. If you or a loved one is pregnant, talk to doctors and hospitals about their emergency care policies, especially if you live in a state where abortion is restricted to any extent.
Talk to those in your community about the status of EMTALA. You can find local groups—including local ACLU affiliates—working on and teaching about these issues. Local groups may have additional ideas on how to become more involved.
Read MoreFollow NHeLP on Bluesky and Facebook to stay up-to-date with their work.
Take time to contact your Members of Congress and urge them to save Medicaid from any cuts, whether through budget reconciliation or other legislation. You can remind them that:
Medicaid cuts would devastate your community by taking health insurance coverage away from millions, including kids, people in nursing homes, pregnant and postpartum people, and those living with a disability or chronic conditions, and that Medicaid cuts would increase health care costs for everyone, including medical debt for millions and destabilize hospitals, health centers, and other providers that we all rely on, especially in rural communities.
If you know that your Representative or Senator(s) are supportive of reproductive rights, consider stressing that any cut to Medicaid will be yet another cut to sexual and reproductive health care access for low-income and underserved communities.
You can reach your Members of Congress through a hotline at 866-426-2631.
Read MoreFollow Wendy Davis on X and Planned Parenthood Texas Votes on X.
Research and share. Educate yourself on how impactful these abortion bans really are and share that information with family and friends.
Reach out to the people who represent you, in whatever state you live in. You can call, write, or go in person on lobby days. To participate in Planned Parenthood Texas Vote’s lobby day, you can find more information here.
Read MoreRead the 2025 Reproductive Justice Policy Agenda! You can also send it to friends, family, and local lawmakers. You can also follow the Intersections of Our Lives Collaborative.
Follow the National Asian Pacific American Forum on X, In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Justice Agenda on X, and National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice on X.
Remain civically engaged. Stay informed. Take care of yourself. Donate to the causes you care about, if you can. Specifically, abortion funds. You can donate to local funds via the National Network of Abortion Funds.
Read MoreStay 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.
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