Follow the National Women’s Law Center on Facebook and Twitter.
Learn about the Weldon amendment and the Hyde amendment. Find a letter campaign or contact your representatives and urge them to remove Weldon from the annual appropriations budget and repeal the Hyde amendment.
Read MoreFirst and foremost, follow the Online Abortion Resource Squad on Twitter and LinkedIn. You can also follow r/abortion on Reddit here.
Figure out whatever steps you would need to take to access an abortion in your community, and make sure you are intimately familiar with those steps. Next, apply the same steps for loved ones in your life. Learn the laws where you live. Talk to your doctor, talk to your local representatives, and talk to people in your communities about ways to strengthen abortion access.
If you see someone on Reddit who needs abortion help, send them to/abortion.
If possible, donate!
Read MoreFollow Rewire.News on Twitter and Facebook, and find Jessica Mason Pieklo on Twitter here.
Take care of yourself. These court fights will require a long haul approach, and do what you need to do to engage in self-care. Make sure you are supporting direct aid services—donate, if possible, to your local abortion funds. In addition, amplify local voices, which most intimately understand the network of care.
Read MoreFirst and foremost, follow NLIRJ on Twitter and Facebook and PPFA on Twitter and Facebook.
Amplify the blueprint and the policy agenda it lays out in your communities and platforms. Share on social media, share with friends, family, and policy makers, and send to related (and non-related!) organizations.
Reach out to local, state, and federal elected officials and stress the importance of achieving the vision of SRHR for all. You can contact the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121.
Read MoreFollow the Equality Federation on Twitter and Facebook and stay up-to-date on their work.
Find your local Equality Federation partner, nearby events, and other ways to get involved here! When state equality groups and LGBTQI+ communities are asking you to show up—whether at protests, voting, calling representatives, etc., be there.
If you can, you can also give to your local LGBTQI+ organizations, especially through a reoccurring donation.
rePROs Fight Back has been named a finalist in two categories in the 3rd Annual Anthem Awards. The winners of these awards are chosen by support from our community. You can “celebrate” or vote for rePROs Fight Back here: Human and Civil Rights Awareness and Media Awards and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Awareness and Media. Finalists can be celebrated online from December 5th to December 21st at Celebrate.Anthemawards.com.
Read MoreFirst and foremost, follow Amnesty International on Facebook and Twitter.
Follow reproductive health and rights on social media, including their back up accounts. Plan C, Women on Web, and Shout Your Abortion have very helpful information. Like, share, and interact with their content to increase their reach. Support digital campaigns from reproductive health and rights organizations, as well.
Make sure you talk about this issue—both abortion and abortion content suppression online. Suppression is silence, which makes space for stigmatization.
rePROs Fight Back has been named a finalist in two categories in the 3rd Annual Anthem Awards. The winners of these awards are chosen by support from our community. You can “celebrate” or vote for rePROs Fight Back here: Human and Civil Rights Awareness and Media Awards and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Awareness and Media. Finalists can be celebrated online from December 5th to December 21st at Celebrate.Anthemawards.com.
Read MoreFollow Reproaction on Twitter and Facebook and stay up-to-date on their work. You can also find Erin Matson on Twitter here.
If you want to show that you are an ally or help challenge stigma, you can get some merchandise like this on Bonfire and show your support!
Remember, engage in conversations to your own comfortability. Sometimes, we must protect our own mental and emotional wellbeing, safety, and security.
Read MoreIf you need an abortion, check out this website to find the clinic closest to you.
Support your local abortion fund! Find your local abortion fund via the National Network of Abortion Funds.
Follow Tarah Demant on Twitter and follow Amnesty International USA on Twitter and Facebook
As the holidays approach, remember to have conversations with your family members to your own comfortability. Feel free to push back in a big or small way. You can also wear abortion fund merchandise, like this, to break the stigma!
Read MoreFollow Power to Decide on Twitter and Facebook.
Join in on #ThxBirthControl Day! Find social media toolkits, merchandise, and more information on this day here. You can find Power to Decide’s take action center here—sign up to stay informed about their work and urge Congress to support related legislation.
Read MoreIf you are a member of a union, hold your union accountable for safeguarding legal, accessible abortion access and ensure that the issue is taken up in the collective bargaining process.
If you are not a member of a union, think about unions as obvious allies in the fight for progressive change. Alliances can be made between the labor movement and the reproductive rights movement, and tapping into that power can result in powerful change. Call on friends in the labor movement or reach out to people in the labor movement to have these discussions.
Read MoreCombat misinformation about transgender individuals and abortion care in your inner circles. If you hear people spreading stigma, fear, and mis- and disinformation about people and healthcare, challenge them.
Donate to mutual aid funds or any individual’s personal GoFundMe for gender affirming care.
If you live in a state that is challenging gender affirming care, show up to testify in person or reach out to your local legislature to combat any harmful legislation.
Read MoreFollow Gloria on Twitter to stay up-to-date on her incredible work. You can also follow the O’Neill Institute here.
If you ever find yourself on the other end of criminalization for accessing abortion care, you can contact the Repro Legal Helpline and the If/When/How’s Repro Legal Defense Fund.
Try to have conversations in your homes, in your places of work, and with your friends about abortion and access to basic healthcare in an effort to break stigma.
Read MoreFollow Dr. Horvath on Twitter and stay up-to-date on her work.
Buy super cute swag that supports Partners in Abortion Care.
If you can, give money to abortion funds. They are facilitating not only abortion care, but support in accessing that care. You can also fundraise for your local funds, too!
Hold your local elected officials accountable. Reproductive health, rights, and justice is directly intertwined with a plethora of issue areas, many of which elected officials vote on.
Read MoreFollow Hannah on Twitter and her website stay up-to-date on her work.
Find You or Someone You Love: Reflections from an Abortion Doula on bookshop.org.
If you are interested in becoming an abortion doula, familiarize yourself with the reproductive justice needs in your community through being in contact with your local abortion fund and abortion clinics. Look into abortion doula trainings that may be connected to your local funds.
Birthing Advocacy Doula Trainings and Cornerstone feature helpful training and resources.
All Options and Exhale are hotlines and text lines that are also possible to get involved in.
Read MoreMake sure to follow Fòs Feminista on Twitter and Facebook and stay up-to-date on their work.
You can also follow Fòs Feminista organizational partners on Twitter, including CommonHealth on Twitter, KMET on Twitter, GIWYN on Twitter, and Oriéntame on Twitter.
Dive deeper into the new report-- The Global Impact of the Dobbs Decision on Abortion Laws, Policies, Legislation, Narratives, and Movements: Findings from Colombia, India, Kenya, and Nigeria -- featuring reflections from Colombia, Kenya, India, and Nigeria.
Read MoreCheck out Lauren’s book, Bodies on the Line, here! You can also keep up with Lauren’s work but following her on Twitter.
Rally for abortion protections in your community. If you are interested in becoming a clinic escort and you live in a state where abortion is still legal, reach out to your local clinic and see if there is a pre-existing escort group. If not, make your own!
You can also contact the abortion fund near you and see if there is anything that they need. You can also donate here.
Read MoreFollow the National Domestic Violence Hotline on Twitter and Facebook.
If you are experiencing intimate partner violence, domestic violence, or reproductive violence, you can reach out to the National Domestic Violence Hotline via call 1-800-799-SAFE, text to 88788, or chat on the website. Find more information here.
If you can, donate to your local or national domestic violence organizations.
In an effort to shift the cultural narrative, share information about intimate partner violence, domestic violence, reproductive abuse, and lack of abortion access among your family in your family and friends. If you would like to or feel safe, share your story.
Read MoreFollow the Louisiana Abortion Fund on Twitter and Facebook here. You can also find their website here—feel free to support! Donate your time, funds or capacity to abortion funds if you can. The leadership that is on-the-ground and has been doing this work for a long time.
You can find the Louisiana Abortion Fund’s Podcast, the South Has the Answers, here. You can also check out the Louisiana Abortion Fund’s 2022 Annual Report.
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