KEY ISSUES
Legal, safe, + accessible abortion
Access to contraception, STD testing, + treatment
Advance care for Black mamas
Decriminalize sex work
End discrimation against people living with HIV
End sexual violence
Fight pregnancy discrimination
Funding for reproductive health care
Gender affirming care
Honest sex education
Paid family leave
PROCEEDS BENEFIT ORGS FIGHTING FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE PROCEEDS BENEFIT ORGS FIGHTING FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE
DIVE DEEPER + ACT NOW
Immediate Actions To Take+
- Call your reps and tell them to Codify Abortion Rights
- Call your reps to Oppose a National Ban on Abortion
- Go to this Abortion Criminal Defense Initiative page to donate and learn more from the ACLU.
- Find a verified abortion provider — abortionfinder.org
- Tell Congress to Support the Swift Passage of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act — script here
- Share your story on social media using #BansOffOurBodies or with We Testify
- Take Action on Reproductive Freedom: Access to Abortion
- Use this toolkit from Avow to talk about Abortion
- Use this tool to understand what rights to abortion access look like state by state when Roe falls
- Donate to Abortion Funds, Independent Clinics, and Practical Support Providers
- Get support finding a clinic, funding an abortion, hotline for SMA, and legal advice
Organizations to support + follow+
- Abortion Care Network
- Advocates For Youth
- All Above All
- All-Options
- Apiary for Practical Support
- Black Mamas Matter Alliance
- Black Women for Wellness
- Black Women’s Health Imperative
- Center For Reproductive Rights
- DC Abortion Fund (DCAF)
- DECRIMNOW
- Desiree Alliance
- Dupont Clinic
- Forward Together
- If/When/How's Repro Legal Defense Fund
- ineedana.com
- IPAS
- INCITE!
- Liberate Abortion
- M + A HOTLINE
- Metro Area Advanced Practice Healthcare
- NARAL
- National Abortion Federation
- National Advocates for Pregnant Women
- National Black Network for Reproductive Justice
- National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
- National Pro-Choice Adoption Collaborative - National Pro-Choice Adoption Collaborative
- National Women’s Health Network
- National Women's Law Center (NWLC)
- Native Youth Sexual Health Network
- PERIOD Movement
- Planned Parenthood
- Positive Women’s Network – USA
- Shout Your Abortion
- SisterLove, Inc.
- SisterReach
- SisterSong
- SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW
- Surge NW
- Third Wave Fund
- TIME’S UP Legal Defense Fund
- UNITE For Reproductive + Gender Equity (URGE)
- We Testify
- Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project (WRRAP)
Educate yourself + Keep showing up+
- Articles —
- Abortion Comics — We Testify
- Abortion Decriminalization is Part of the Larger Struggle Against Policing and Criminalization — Interrupting Criminalization
- All About Abortion — WE TESTIFY
- Data Points to How GOP Has Built a Lasting Edge in State Governments by Reid Wilson — The Hill
- Democratic senators ask Biden admin to create office focusing on reproductive health and wellbeing — The 19th
- How Black Feminists Defined Abortion Rights by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor — The New Yorker
- How False Narrative of Margaret Sanger Are Being Used to Shame Black Women by Imani Gandy — Rewire News Group
- How Not To Outlaw Abortion by Mary Ziegler — NYTimes
- How the Next President Can Expand Reproductive Freedom by Ilyse Hogue — The Nation
- I Can't Focus on Abortion Access If My People Are Dying by Emma Goldberg — NYTimes
- Let’s Talk About My Abortion (and Yours) by Cindi Leive — The New York Times
- Medical Racism Was Mean to Hurt Black Women — And It Does by Juan Michael Porter II — The Body
- New Research Proves Restricting Abortion Harms Women by Carrie N. Baker — Ms. Magazine
- Recent abortion bans will impact poor people and people of color most by Renee Bracy Sherman — Vox
- Rethinking the Mantra that Abortion Should be "Safe, Legal, and Rare" by Tracy Weitz
- The Color of Choice: White Supremacy and Reproductive Justice by Loretta J. Ross — SisterSong
- The Covid Crisis Reveals the Need to Abolish Abortion Restrictions by Renee Bracey Sherman — The Nation
- The Mainstream Abortion Rights Movement Failed to Prevent the End of Roe by Marian Jones — TeenVogue
- The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm by Anne Koedt
- The Future of Reproductive Choice for Poor Women + Women of Color by D. Roberts
- The Right to (Black) Life by Renee Bracy Sherman — The New York Times
- The Supreme Court Stopped Anti-Abortion Momentum. For Now. by Sabrian Tavernise and Elizabeth Dias — NYTimes
- We Don’t Need an ‘Abortion Underground Railroad’—Black and brown people already lead the most powerful abortion fund network in the country by Jessica Pinckney — Prism
- What if Roe Fell? by Center For Reproductive Rights
- What My Life-Threatening Experience Taught Me About Giving Birth by Serena Williams — CNN
- Who Should You Listen to on Abortion? People Who’ve Had Them by Renee Bracey Sherman — The New York Times
- Learn more and amplify the Reintroduction of the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act in U.S. Congress — Center for Reproductive Rights
- Books —
- Bad Fat Black Feminist: Notes from a Trap Feminist by Sesali Bowen
- Battling Over Birth: Black Women and the Maternal Health Care Crisis by Dantia Hudson, Helen Arega, and Linda Jones
- Choice Words: Writers on Abortion edited by Annie Finch
- Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
- Killing The Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy E. Roberts
- Luster by Raven Leilani
- Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Book Collective
- Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood by Michele Goodwin
- Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care by Jennifer Block
- Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the 21st Century by Loretta J. Ross and Rickie Solinger
- Reproductive Rights and Wrongs by Betsey Hartmann
- The Lie that Binds by Ilyse Hogue and Ellie Langford
- The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World by Michelle Goldberg
- The Mothers by Brit Bennett
- The New Handbook for a Post-Roe America: The Complete Guide to Abortion Legality, Access, and Practical Support by Robin Marty
- The Politics of Women's Bodies: Sexuality, Appearance, and Behavior by Rose Weitz and Samantha Kwan
- The Seed: Infertility Is a Feminist Issue by Alexandra Kimball
- The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having-or Being Denied-an Abortion by Diana Greene Foster
- Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice by Jael Silliman, Marlene Gerber Fried, and Loretta Ross
- When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973 by Leslie J. Reagan
- Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now by Jenny Brown
- Watch —
- AKA Jane Roe — Hulu
- Cider House Rules — Netflix
- Dear White People: Chapter IV — Netflix
- Dirty Dancing — Hulu and Netflix
- For Colored Girls (2010) — Hulu
- Grey's Anatomy: Free Falling — Netflix
- How To Survive a Plague — Available for Rent
- If These Walls Could Talk — HBO
- Little Woods (2019) — Hulu
- Mrs. America — Hulu
- Orange Is The New Black — Netflix
- Ours to Tell — Planned Parenthood + We Testify
- Philadelphia — Netflix
- Scandal: Baby, It's Cold Outside — Netflix
- Shrill — Hulu
- The Bleeding Edge — Netflix
- The Janes — HBO
- The Obvious Child — Netflix
- When Abortion Was Illegal: Untold Stories — Youtube
- Films with abortion depictions are catalogued here: abortiononscreen.org
NOTE: Our focus areas are informed by community input. If there is an issue you'd like to see included or would like to share input, please email us at info@the-outrage.com with questions, comments, or concerns on our focus areas. We'd love to hear from you.
This is an incomplete and growing list. Last updated Jan 2024.