Be rePROACTIVE.

Stay 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.

Subscribe 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.

Follow 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.

Tell your members of Congress that you want to see the Helms amendment repealed.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.

Follow 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.

Follow 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.

Follow 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. 

Follow 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.