First, follow the Center for American Progress’ Women Initiative on X and the Center for American Progress on X.
Do more research on Project 2025. Know what rights of yours the Project seeks to roll back. You can find more of rePROs Fight Back’s Project 2025 episodes here:
Project 2025 is a Road Map to a Conservative United States. Here’s What You Need to Know.
What Could Project 2025 Mean for the LGBTQI+ Community?
Project 2025 is Already in Action
Follow Ipas on Instagram and X and stay up-to-date on their important work. You can find Gillian Kane on X here. Read Gillian’s piece, Project 2025 is Already Here. Access Ipas’ recent reports, Protego: Operationalizing the Geneva Consensus Declaration and Project 2025: An Anti-Gender Promise to Upend Foreign Assistance and Multilateralism.
Continue to have conversations about Project 2025 and its implications. Spread the word about Protego and the Institute for Women’s Health and the global damage they could cause.
Read MoreFind Gayatri Patel on X. You can read more about SRHR in humanitarian settings in Gayatri’s recent brief, Sexual and Reproductive Health in Emergencies: Promising Practices to Address the Crisis within a Crisis
Use your voice and reach out to your policy makers. Tell them to pay attention to and prioritize sexual and reproductive health in humanitarian settings. You can write, email, or reach the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121.
Read MoreFollow Sarah Warbelow on X and Human Rights Campaign on X and Facebook.
Get out and vote to protect the rights of LGBTQI+ folks! Have conversations with your loved ones about Project 2025 and what’s at stake.
Tell your Congressmembers that this is important to you. You can write, email, or call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121.
Read MoreTend to your body. Take yourself on walks, turn off notifications, and take breaks from the news cycle to build your energy back up. Take a page from Tarah’s book and write a postcard to a voter, sign up to volunteer, or get educated!
Follow, Dr. Monica McLemore on Instagram, and Dr. Diane Horvath, Rev. Katey Zeh, Greer Donley, Beirne Roose Snyder, Jennie Wetter, and Tarah Demant, on X.
Read MoreTry to find things to be joyful of and celebrate in difficult times. Invest in your community! Enjoy the summer, new media and music, and moments of inspiration.
Continue to partake in the abortion community, which is underlined by radical love. If you can, donate to or volunteer for your local abortion fund, or offer words of encouragement and support to those who are currently working to protect abortion.
Read MoreFollow Madiba Dennie on X!
You can find Madiba Dennie’s writing with Balls and Strikes here. Check out her book, The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take it Back.
We are not just stuck with originalism. Assess constitutionality for yourself! The court isn’t the sole arbiter of constitutionality, and originalism is the only way we can assess that constitutionality.
Educate yourself on how this can be put into practice. Whether it may be at the level of state courts developing new jurisprudence, or in local-level legislation, or pressuring Congress to make legitimate progress.
Say no to the Supreme Court and act out our vision of constitutionality. Do what we believe the law should require instead.
Read MoreFollow the National Health Law Program on Facebook and X to stay up-tp-date with their work.
Become educated on your healthcare coverage, including Medicaid! Are you signed up? Are you eligible? Find out what Medicaid covers in your state. Find more information on Medicaid here! You can utilize the Medicaid Advisory Committees and Beneficiary Advisory Council to make your voice heard.
You can also take time to learn about Section 5057 of the Affordable Care Act, which prohibits sex, race, nationality, and disability discrimination in a healthcare setting.
Support your local abortion fund.
Reach out to your Congressperson and tell them to support the Equal Access to Abortion Coverage in Health Insurance (EACH) Act, which would repeal the Hyde Amendment. You can contact the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121.
Read MoreFollow Physicians for Reproductive Health on X and Facebook.
Get vocal! Get involved in local politics. Demonstrate that you are in the majority of Americans who believe in comprehensive access to abortion care.
Always center people in the most marginalized groups. Doing so will allow a law that’s even more effective than Roe-- one that will cover access to abortion care for all people and not just a select few.
Donate to your local abortion fund or the National Network of Abortion Funds. Ask your local abortion fund if they need volunteer assistance!
Ask your local providers if they provide medication abortion.
Read MoreFollow Garnet on X and stay up-to-date with her work. You can also listen to ACCESS here.
Talk about what’s occurring in the Dominican Republic and Brazil. You can follow MUDHA, Dominican Haitian feminist organization engaging in reproductive justice work, Conamuca, which fights for the rights of women living rurally, as well as the U.S.-based Women's Equality Center, which engages in policy work with both countries and the whole of Latin America.
Support organizations like OARS, an American organization getting inquiries for Brazilians, as well as Projecto Vivas. Fos Feminista provides a bulk of Proyecto’s Funding, so you can support these efforts, as well.
Read MoreFirst and foremost, find Fighting Mad: Resisting the End of Roe v. Wade, here.
If you can, donate to the National Network of Abortion Funds or your local abortion fund! You can also inquire about ways to volunteer in person at your local fund or clinic, including escorting patients, distributing pills, etc.
Have conversations about the importance of abortion access with friends, family, and loved ones. Share your knowledge and resources.
Read MoreYou can access the Behind Closed Doors report here to learn more. Follow the Population Institute on Facebook and X.
Look in your own backyard. What policies and laws are in place in your state or city? Is there a ban on child marriage in your state, or any loopholes to those bans? Sex education is incredibly important to contrasting these issues. How does your state preform? Pay attention to when these issues are in the news and educate yourself on these topics.
Pay attention to your own biases.
Follow Sahiyo and Unchained at Last to stay up-to-date on work on ending FGM/C and early, forced, and child marriage.
Read MoreFind more information about the Alabama Cohosh Collaborative and Fountain Street Choice Fund here.
Participate in the Abortion Fund-a-Thon! You can support Alabama Cohosh Collaborative here and the Fountain Street Choice fund here. Donate to your local abortion fund here.
Support your local events that help fund abortion! Talk to your local lobbyists and advocacy groups about actions being taken to protect and expand access to care, sex education, and reproductive justice in your state.
If you feel ready and willing, share your abortion story! You can do so in many ways, including with Shout Your Abortion.
Read MoreFollow UNFPA on Facebook and X.
Call your members of Congress and demand a ceasefire. You can also ask them to fund UNFPA. You can reach the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121.
Support petitions and campaigns to increase awareness of what’s happening to women and girls in Gaza. Stand up for international humanitarian law, which is being violated in Gaza.
If you can, donate to UNFPA to help the organization protect and support women and girls with life-saving reproductive health services. You can also donate to other groups that are working on the ground to get aid into Gaza, including Doctors without Borders, World Central Kitchen, the Palestinian relief fund, Save the Children.
Read MoreFollow Power to Decide on Facebook and X here.
Educate yourself, including how to identify facts and opinions vs. myths. Be the champion for a young person who may not have resources at their disposal, including pointing them toward Power to Decide, Bedsider, or any media that shows healthy, realistic depictions of sex.
Find more information on over-the-counter birth control from Power to Decide here.
Read MoreAccess Jodi Enda’s piece, the Terrifying Reach of the American Anti-Abortion Movement here.
Find more information on the Global Health, Empowerment, and Rights (HER) Act here, and the Abortion is Health Care Everywhere Act here.
You can reach the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 and let them know you’d like to see their support for both pieces of legislation.
Read MoreFollow the National Women’s Law Center on Facebook and X.
If you are, or can be in the D.C. area, join the gathering at the Supreme Court on May 24th, at 9:30 a.m. EST.
If you feel comfortable, continue to have open and honest conversations about your own experiences with pregnancy loss, abortion, and emergency abortion. Hear from friends, family, and other loved ones about their experiences, too.
Read MoreFollow Floridians Protecting Freedom on X and Facebook.
If you are in Florida, vote in the election to protect abortion access!
Learn more about abortion in Florida and finding volunteer opportunities through Floridians Protecting Freedom.
If you can, donate to abortion funds—Tampa Bay Abortion Fund and Florida Access Network are a few to choose from in the state. You can also donate to your local Planned Parenthood.
Read MoreFollow Dr. McLemore on Instagram and Threads, and find more information on Black Maternal Health Week 2024.
Participate in the political process! Your vote is your voice.
To improve health outcomes at the population level, the provision of affordable, accessible, and quality childcare and the canceling of student loan debt would transform society. Call and write to you Senators and Representatives and urge them to take action. You can reach the Capitol at 223-224-3121.
Teach students about reproductive justice. Listen to young people. Expand your reproductive justice education.
If you can, donate to reproductive justice organizations!
Read MoreYou can follow Dr. Dorothy Roberts on X, as well as Pregnancy Justice on Facebook and X.
Understand that criminalization and stigmatization of pregnancy is a surveillance issue. Advocate for policies that reject the creation of fetal personhood legal rights and support policies that center people and their reproductive health decisions. Remember the ways in which these punitive policies intertwine.
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