First and foremost, follow Free the Pill on Twitter and Facebook and stay up-to-date on their amazing work. You can also sign up for email updates from Free the Pill here.
Advocates for Youth features a Free the Pill Youth Council, which works in communities across the country to expand access to an affordable birth control pill.
Talk to people in your life about birth control, health equity, and the importance of eliminating barriers to access!
Read MoreFollow Amnesty International on Twitter and Facebook.
Stay engaged and take heart. The majority of people around the world—3 out of 5—believe that abortion should be legal. Talk about abortion, how it’s normal, safe, healthcare and a human right.
If you have money to give, give to an abortion fund! If donating isn’t an option, figure out a way to become involved—whether going to events, volunteering, or more.
Reach out to your local council members and elected officials, and make sure they know that abortion access is important to you as a constituent. You can also call your federal elected officials! The Capitol Switchboard is 202-224-3121.
Read MoreFollow Becca Andrews on Twitter, find her pieces on Reckon News, and check out her book.
Set up reoccurring donations to BIPOC- and low-income and queer-led abortion funds. These grassroots organizations are providing safe, dependable mutual aid for those who are particularly in need.
Support organizations like We Testify, who are erasing abortion stigma one story at a time.
As appropriations season ramps up, tell your Congress members that reproductive health and rights is funded—that UNFPA, Title X, international family planning is funded, and the Helms amendment and Hyde amendment is repealed. The Capitol Switchboard is 202-224-3121.
Read MoreFollow the Council for Global Equality on Twitter and Facebook, as well as Convening for Equality on Twitter.
Pay attention to the way these conservative and evangelical ideologies are informing similar laws around the world. For a deeper dive on the global anti-gender movement, find the past podcast with Beirne here.
Ask your representatives what they are doing on the bill in Uganda. You can call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121.
Continue your allyship to the LGBTQI+ people around you. Stay open, continue listening, and continue to be kind.
Read MoreFollow Garnet Henderson on Twitter and Rewire News Group and stay up-to-date with her publications. You can also find ACCESS: A Podcast About Abortion here.
Get plugged in with your local abortion fund! Follow them on social media (don’t call their hotline, please! That’s for patients). Donate and volunteer when needed.
Read MoreFollow the O’Neill Institute on Twitter and Facebook to stay up-to-date with their important work.
Learn, discuss, and generate spaces for dialogue! Access the O’Neill Institute’s website, which features publications and accessible translations on legal abortion rights in Latin America that you can share.
Continue to have conversations with those in your inner circles on sexual and reproductive health, including abortion.
Read MoreFirst and foremost, follow Katelyn Burns on Twitter. You can also find more information on Katelyn’s co-hosted podcast, Cancel Me Daddy, here.
Challenge your own perspectives on transgender student’s participation in sports. Consider the last time you heard of an openly trans women playing on a men’s sports team.
You can find more of Katelyn’s opinion pieces with MSNBC and Xtra Magazine.
Read MoreFollow The Nation on Twitter and Facebook, as well as Amy Littlefield’s written pieces here.
Take comfort in the ways that reproductive justice advocates, friends, and family are showing up for each other in an effort to protect abortion access—from funding abortions through abortion funds to sharing stories.
Read MoreFollow Mark Joseph Stern on Twitter and read more writings on Slate here.
Read the decision and get a sense of the anti-science, anti-medicine rhetoric. Talk to friends, family members, and state and local legislators about why it’s unacceptable that one judge hypothetically has the power to impact nationwide access to medication abortion.
Do not panic-buy abortion medication to keep in your cabinets (there are many people who need that medication right now), but if you are worried for yourself or your friend’s and family’s access, you can buy a few at aidaccess.org.
Donate to abortion funds in states that border red states, such as New Mexico.
Read MoreFirst, follow Fòs Feminista on Twitter and Facebook to stay updated on their incredible work.
Contact your Congresspeople and tell them to permanently repeal the Global Gag Rule by supporting and passing the Global HER Act. If your Congressperson is already a co-sponsor, thank them! You can also ask them to find other avenues of moving the bill forward. Contact the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121.
Those impacted by the GGR are real people who are experiencing harm each day; follow and engage with the organizations who are have to hurdle the burdens put in place by the GGR.
Check out the Global HER Project, which features a musical about the Global Gag Rule, which is supported by Fòs Feminista.
Read MoreFollow Population Institute on Facebook and Twitter.
Learn more by reading the new report, Connecting the Dots: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights as Prerequisites for Global Gender Equality and Empowerment, here.
Learn more about Fòs Feminista’s index of sexual and reproductive health and rights here.
Contact your Congressmembers and tell them to permanently repeal the Helms amendment, repeal the Global Gag Rule, and support robust funding for sexual and reproductive health and rights. The number for the Capitol Switchboard is 202-224-3121.
Read MoreFirst and foremost, follow Jessica Mason Pieklo on Twitter, and Rewire News Group on Twitter
and Facebook.
If you have ever thought about running for office, give thought to local politics. School board elections, for example, are incredibly important to in shifting community values towards those of reproductive justice.
Read MoreFollow Erin Reed on Twitter and stay up-to-date; find Erin’s recent piece, the Anti-Trans State of the States, here, and Erin’s Substack here.
Ensuring that gender-affirming care and abortion is enshrined in state constitutions around the country will protect trans folks and those who need abortions before heinous attacks on issues of bodily autonomy can occur. Contact your state and local legislators and urge them to protect trans health and rights.
Remember that this is not only a legislative battle, but also one of culture. Make sure your friends, family, and children know about and respect the existence of trans folks.
Read banned books and books by transgender authors.
Read MoreFollow the Guttmacher Institute on Facebook and Twitter.
Find the policy analysis written, researched, and discussed by Liza Fuentes, Inequity in US Abortion Rights and Access: The End of Roe Is Deepening Existing Divides.
If you are located in Wisconsin, there is a Supreme Court justice race occurring, and your vote can impact whether reproductive rights are protected in the state. Find more information here.
Donate to an abortion fund. It is immediate, tangible, and helps people access the abortion care they need. Many abortion funds sell merchandise—wearing that merchandise publicly shifts the culture and destigmatizes abortion as a concept.
Read MoreIf you live in a blue state, pressure your legislature to be innovative and radical—especially as efforts from the anti-abortion movement to ban abortion pills will only increase. Continue to pressure the federal government, as well. You can reach the Capitol Switchboard at 2020-224-3121.
Be prepared for chaos and confusion that will begin to arrive in the next year, and be open to new models of care. You can find additional information on misoprostol-only medication abortion here to learn more.
Read MoreFollow the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice on Twitter and Facebook to stay updated on their current work! You can also find NLIRJ’s new research, in partnership with the National Partnership for Women and Families here.
If you feel ready, share your story—even just at the dinner table! Doing so helps bust stigma and shift our culture so that abortion is more accessible.
Support the HEAL for Immigrant Families Act, which lifts the five-year ban on newly arrived immigrant’s access to abortion. If you are in New York, support the Reproductive Freedom and Equity Fund, which would provide assistance to patients seeking care, as well as providers.
Continue to be involved with a reproductive health, rights, or justice organization that can guide you in taking action!
Read MoreFollow Dr. Leah Torres on Twitter.
Remember that abortion is healthcare, and removing access to anything on the healthcare spectrum leads to harm. Those who seek to limit care gain money and power from doing so, always at the expense of marginalized communities. Our healthcare system needs to center the needs of patients, period.
Make your voices known to your legislators at the federal, state and local level. Contact the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121.
Seek care from providers who will respect your life and medical decisions. Support abortion funds and independent clinics through the National Network of Abortion Funds and Keep Our Clinics.
Read MoreFollow National Network of Abortion Funds on Twitter and Facebook.
It’s the holiday season, which means it’s the perfect time to challenge misinformed opinions around abortion and other reproductive healthcare when they occur at the dinner table. Talking about abortion de-stigmatizes and normalizes care, so let’s make sure we have these conversations now and year-round.
Donate to abortion funds! You can find NNAF’s donation page here, where donations can be made to specific funds or be split across their network of 90 funds!
Wear your support for abortion and abortion funds by buying some of this amazing merch.
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