Fuck Bans Action Plan: The Abortion Access Fund
As of June 24th, 2022, Roe v. Wade is no longer the law of the land.
Millions of people have been forced to travel hundreds of miles to a haven state or face forced pregnancy. Those forced pregnancies have resulted in harmful and expensive complications. And these state-level bans aren't enough for anti-abortion activists: They want a national 15-week abortion ban and are demanding the GOP nominee for president pledge their support for one.
Fuck (and we cannot emphasize this enough) that.
We’ve got a lot to do — and can do a lot — to fight back, but this work always begins and ends with the marginalized people who are disproportionately impacted.
Here’s what you can do right now.
Fund The Legal Defense: The Repro Legal Defense Fund will provide *direct support* for people criminalized for self-managed abortion. The RLDF is a bail fund and more: It works to get people out of jail and to keep them from going to prison by ensuring they can pay for the legal resources necessary to get charges dropped and cases won.
Fund The Patients:
The National Network of Abortion Funds
The National Network of Abortion Funds (NNAF) works with more than 80 local abortion funds across the country and distributes money according to level of threat to abortion access in that area of the country. Every dollar donated to NNAF goes straight to a local fund.
Here are just a few member organizations:
Just The Pill: Just The Pill enables people in Minnesota and Montana to access medication abortion via telemedicine appointments with board certified physicians and receive the pills in the mail.
The Brigid Alliance: The Brigid Alliance is addressing the gap in abortion access in many parts of the country by covering travel and associated expenses for abortion patients with appointments in other states who could not otherwise afford to access abortion care
Midwest Action Fund: MAC helps people travel to, from, and within the Midwest to access safe and legal abortion through financial, logistical, and emotional support
Lilith Fund: The Lilith Fund covers the costs of abortions for Texans who could not otherwise afford it.
Fund The Clinics:
Abortion Care Network: Nearly one third of independent abortion clinics have been forced to close their doors in the last six years. Independent abortion clinics serve approximately 60% of patients, but don’t have access to the level of funding that Planned Parenthood-affiliated clinics do. Every dollar donated to Abortion Care Network’s Keep Our Clinics fund goes directly to independent abortion clinics across the country, enabling them to cover costs and continue to serve their communities.
Thank you for your help in this fight. It’s not over. So to learn about what more you can do, check out votesaveamerica.com/roe.
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