What is an abortion?

Abortion is an outpatient medical procedure, performed using medication or as a minimally invasive surgical procedure, to terminate a pregnancy. Read more…

State restrictions for accessing abortion and Your Rights

Direct Legal Services

  • Repro Legal Helpline provides free and confidential legal advice and information on self-managed abortion to people anywhere in the states or U.S. territories (also on parental involvement laws and judicial bypass for young people under 18). Website materials are available in Spanish, simplified Chinese, and English. They work with callers who speak nearly any language. 
    • Repro Legal Helpline serves as an intake point, through which people who have been threatened with investigation, arrest, or prosecution can access If/When/How’s Litigation Team (counsel, representation) and the Repro Legal Defense Fund (financial assistance), or be referred to an attorney in our RJ Lawyers Network (attorney referrals). 
  • Repro Legal Defense Fund provides financial assistance to people criminalized for self-managed abortion and pregnancy loss by assisting with bail, attorney fees, and defense costs. Full financial assistance is available to: (1) people who end their own pregnancies; (2) loved ones who assist them; (3) community-based abortion providers and distributors of methods; (4) activists engaging in SMA civil disobedience. 
    • The RLDF now provides bail support only for people jailed for providing, assisting, or receiving clinic-based or telehealth abortion care (not only self-managed abortion).
    • In order to ensure that the RLDF’s limited funds go to those with the greatest need, recipients must meet eligibility criteria.
    • Fundraising

Movement Resources (links)

Health Myths, Statistics, Crisis Pregnancy Centers

  • Crisis Pregnancy Centers. Fake women’s health centers, also known as crisis pregnancy centers or CPCs, are anti-abortion counseling centers that often use deceptive advertising practices to lure in people facing unplanned pregnancies. These fake clinics are unlicensed and unregulated by the state and often give out false medical information and biased counseling under the guise of being a real healthcare provider. There are more than 4,000 fake health centers across the country. In at least 12 states, fake health centers receive direct state funding to mislead women. Government support for these anti-choice organizations creates the false impression that fake health centers are part of the mainstream medical community. They are not. Learn more here. And here.

Reproductive Justice

  • SisterSong defines Reproductive Justice as the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities.

Sexual Health

Charlotte Community Resources

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