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Healthcare and Support Resources

  • Planned Parenthood Federation of America (Planned Parenthood Federation of America is a nonprofit organization that provides sexual health care in the United States and globally)
  • National Abortion Federation (The National Abortion Federation (NAF) is the professional association of abortion providers. We unite, represent, serve, and support abortion providers in delivering patient-centered, evidence-based care)
  • National Network of Abortion Funds (The National Network of Abortion Funds builds power with members to remove financial and logistical barriers to abortion access by centering people who have abortions and organizing at the intersections of racial, economic, and reproductive justice)
  • Abortion On Demand (Physician-supported medication abortion care online. 60% of profits donated to Keep Our Clinics)
  • Keep Our Clinics (The Keep Our Clinics campaign provides funding to independent clinics to cover tangible expenses like increased security, building repairs, PPE and hazard pay for staff working during the pandemic, legal fees, and community education and advocacy)
  • Aid Access (Aid Access supports women, girls, trans men, nonbinary and all people with an unwanted pregnancy to access an abortion or miscarriage treatment)
  • Midwest Access Coalition (As a practical abortion fund, MAC helps people traveling to, from, and within the Midwest access a safe, legal abortion with support in the following areas: travel coordination and costs, lodging, food, medicine, and emotional support)
  • Apiary Collective (We provide operational, programmatic, and community support tailored to the particularities, complexities, and concerns of abortion access practical support organizations)

Law and Policy Resources

  • If/When/How (Lawyering for Reproductive Justice)
  • Guttmacher Institute (Good reproductive health policy starts with credible research)
  • ACLU (Focus: Abortion, Birth Control, Abstinence-Only Curricula, Religion & Reproductive Rights)
  • Intersections of Our Lives – Intersections of Our Lives is a Reproductive Justice collaborative of three women-of-color led national Reproductive Justice organizations with both federal and statewide presence:
    • National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice (Latina Institute)
    • In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda (In Our Own Voice)
    • National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF)
  • NARAL Pro-Choice America (The 2.5 million members of NARAL Pro-Choice America fight for reproductive freedom for every body. Each day, we organize and mobilize to protect that freedom by fighting for access to abortion care, birth control, paid parental leave, and protections from pregnancy discrimination)
  • NOW: National Organization for Women (NOW is a multi-issue, multi-strategy organization that takes a holistic approach to women’s rights. Our priorities are winning economic equality and securing it with an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that will guarantee equal rights for women; championing abortion rights, reproductive freedom and other women’s health issues; opposing racism; fighting bigotry against the LGBTQIA community; and ending violence against women)
  • Center for Reproductive Rights (The Center for Reproductive Rights is the only global legal advocacy organization dedicated to advancing reproductive rights)
  • Grandmothers for Reproductive Rights (GRR!) (Grandmothers for Reproductive Rights (GRR!) works through education and advocacy to secure for younger generations access to the reproductive rights, justice, and health care for which our generation fought so hard)
  • Political Research Associates (Political Research Associates is a social justice think tank devoted to supporting movements that are building a more just and inclusive democratic society. We expose movements, institutions, and ideologies that undermine human rights)

Books – Reproductive Rights, Law, Morality, and History

  • Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood by Kristin Luker (1984)
    • “Based on extensive interviews with both prochoice and prolife activists, Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood demonstrates beyond any reasonable doubt that the controversy derives its intensity not from differences of ideology or religion but from the radically antithetical social circumstances of the combatants.”)
    • Luker “argues that moral positions on abortion are intimately tied to views on sexual behavior, the care of children, family life, technology, and the importance of the individual.”
  • The Means of Reproduction by Michelle Goldberg (2009)
    • “Reproductive rights are the place where many of the crucial forces shaping and changing women’s lives – religious authority, globalization, patriarchal tradition, demographics, American foreign policy, international law, environmentalism, and feminism – intersect. They are the ground on which major battles about women’s status are being fought. And a woman’s right to control her own body, to make her own decisions about childbearing, is closely bound up with other rights in myriad ways, as we’ll see throughout this book.”
  • Beyond Choice: Reproductive Freedom in the 21st Century by Alexander Sanger (2004)
    • “The pro-choice movement will make political progress when it demonstrates that it has an ethical core and a moral perspective that can guide men and women on their reproductive journey through life. The pro-choice movement will make progress when its ideas are shown to be of more benefit to both individuals and humanity than pro-life ideas.
    • “I believe that the traditional pro-choice arguments are right and moral. … But a new framework is needed in order to bring along the 50 percent of the public that is nominally pro-choice but which may believe abortion immoral and accepts restrictions on abortion access.”
  • The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having—or Being Denied—an Abortion by Diana Greene Foster (2020)
    • “The main finding of The Turnaway Study is that receiving an abortion does not harm the health and wellbeing of women, but in fact, being denied an abortion results in worse financial, health and family outcomes.”
  • Sacred Choices: The Right to Contraception and Abortion in Ten World Religions by Daniel C. Maguire (2001)
    • “Ethicist Daniel Maguire discusses the views of major world religions – Roman Catholicism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Judaism, Islam, Protestant Christianity, and Native American – to show their openness to positive views on sexual pleasure and flexibility on birth control and even abortion.”
  • Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion, and Law from America’s Origins to the Twenty-First Century by Geoffrey R. Stone (2017)
    • How contraception, abortion, and sexual orientation came to be legislated in America, written by one of America’s most prominent constitutional law scholars.
  • Abortion Wars: A Half Century of Struggle, 1950-2000 edited by Rickie Solinger (1998)
    • “In the past half century, we have moved from full criminalization of abortion to full legalization, although unequal access to services and violent protest continue. A diverse group of essayists – journalists, scholars, activists, physicians, philosophers – chronicle the evolution of one of the most debated issues of our time. Abortion Wars places key issues such as medical practice, activism, legal strategies, and the meaning of choice in the deeply complex historical context of the past half century.”
  • The Abortion Myth: Feminism, Morality, and the Hard Choices Women Make by Leslie Cannold (1998)
    • “Cannold argues that feminists must abandon the sterile rhetoric of rights, instead basing their defense of abortion rights on the nuanced, practical calculus women actually apply in making these moral decisions.”
  • Articles of Faith: A Frontline History of the Abortion Wars by Cynthia Gorney (2000)
    • “Nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Articles of Faith is a powerful exploration of one of the most divisive issues in our recent political history, and the only book to portray the passion of both sides of the abortion conflict.”
  • A Question of Choice by Sarah Weddington (2013)
    • “On December 13, 1971, a young woman lawyer from Austin, Texas, appeared before the Supreme Court and successfully argued a case that radically changed the political landscape of the country. The lawyer was Sarah Weddington; the issue was abortion; and the case was Roe v. Wade.”
  • When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973 by Leslie J. Reagan (1997)
    • “The linking of the words ‘abortion’ and ‘crime’ emphasizes the difficult and painful history that is the focus of Reagan’s important book. Although illegal, millions of abortions were provided during these years to women of every class, race, and marital status. The experiences and perspectives of these women, as well as their physicians and midwives, are movingly portrayed.”

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