If 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.
Read MoreFollow the Institute for Women’s Policy Research on X and Facebook to keep up to date on new research and publications. If you’d like to learn more about economics and reproductive health and rights, find resources in the ‘Links’ section on the podcast episode’s page.
Engage with state and local politics, particularly if you are in a state that attacks reproductive rights!
If you can, donate to abortion funds—particularly a recurring donation that they can depend on. You can find your local funds here.
Read MoreFollow the Center for American Progress’ Women’s Initiative on X and Facebook.
Learn more about the ERA in CAP’s new piece here. Contact both your national- and state-level lawmakers. Reach the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121. If your state has not ratified the ERA into the state constitution, join the fight to make that a reality!
Talk to people you know about the ERA. Tell them or remind them that the Constitution can be changed to protect and expand equality. If you want to learn more about the ERA, find Kate’s Ordinary Equality podcast here.
Read MoreFollow Garnet Henderson on X and find her on Rewire News Group.
Familiarize yourself with abortion laws in your state, as well as how accessible abortion is in your area. You can do this through ineedana.com and abortionfinder.org.
When donating to a nonprofit, research whether the organization is connected to the community, as well as how much funding goes to service provision and programs.
Texans concerned about the update preventing and surveilling those attempting to change their gender-markers on state IDs can follow Equality Texas and the Trans Legal Aid Clinic of Texas.
Read MoreFollow UNFPA on X and Facebook and stay up-to-date on their critical work. You can also find UNFPA’s 2024 state of world population report, Interwoven Lives, Threads of Hope: Ending Inequalities in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights.
Learn everything you can about how sex ed is being taught in your community. Who is designing those curricula? Are they medically accurate? Are they inclusive? For a deeper look into myths and facts of sex education, find this resource from Advocates for Youth here.
Read MoreFollow the National Women’s Law Center on X and Facebook. You can also find Shiwali Patel’s X here.
Call your Senator and urge them to oppose the Congressional Review Act. You can reach the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121. You can also submit your comments trough NWLC’s site here.
Continue to advocate for Title IX. Just because it’s under fire does not mean protections are gone. Push schools to have clear protections against sex discrimination and implement the policy, even with an injunction in the state.
Read MoreFirst, 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.
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