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The Defenders Resource Page

Here are some of the resources mentioned in The Defenders podcast.

Episode 1

 

Episode 2

  • Abortion Care Tennessee
      • https://www.abortioncaretn.org/ 
      • ACT funds procedural costs for Tennesseans traveling to access abortion. They provide block grants to partner clinics, who distribute the funds to patients.  
      • Donate
  • Beyond Roe Collective 

 

Episode 3

  • OUTMemphis (https://www.outmemphis.org/) 
    • OUTMemphis empowers, connects, educates, and advocates for the LGBT community of the Mid-South. They offer a weekly teen youth group called PRYSM.
    • Donate 
    • Volunteer
    • Buy some swag
  • ACLU (https://www.aclu.org/) 
    • The ACLU works tirelessly in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend the Constitution. Today it is the nation’s largest public interest law firm, with a 50-state network of staffed, autonomous affiliate offices.
    • Donate
  • CHOICES for Reproductive Health (https://yourchoices.org/) 
    • CHOICES provides patient-centered medical care and champions sexual and reproductive rights. With locations in both Memphis, TN and Carbondale, IL, CHOICES serves as an access point for reproductive and sexual health services for patients from across the Southeast and Midwest. 
    • Donate
    • Volunteer
    • Buy merch

 

Episode 4

  • Register to vote! 
    • Google your State and “voter registration” to make sure you’re ready to vote in November!
  • Look up the upcoming ballot initiatives in your state here: 
  • Renee Bracey Sherman and We Testify
    • We Testify is an organization dedicated to the leadership and representation of people who have abortions, increasing the spectrum of abortion storytellers in the public sphere, and shifting the way the media understands the context and complexity of accessing abortion care.
    • Donate
    • Share Your Story

 

Episode 5

    • Faith in Public Life (https://www.faithinpubliclife.org/)
      • Faith in Public Life is a coalition of faith leaders focused on building inclusive spaces of belonging. 
      • Donate
      • Explore faith leader cohorts in Ohio, Florida, and Georgia
      • Learn how to join fellow faith leaders in community and further conversation about faith for abortion access here
    • The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC) is a multifaith, intersectional, and antiracist movement for reproductive freedom and dignity leading in spiritual companionship, curating frameworks for faith leaders, and training the next generation of activists.
    • Donate
    • Clinic blessing program and contact information for organizing a blessing at your clinic

Episode 6

      • SisterSong is the largest national women of color reproductive justice collective, based in Atlanta. Their purpose is to build an effective network of individuals and organizations to improve institutional policies and systems that impact the reproductive lives of marginalized communities.
      • Donate
      • Become a member
      • Learn about SisterSong and Reproductive Justice
  • Cascades Abortion Support Collective (https://www.cascadesabortionsupport.org/)
    • Cascades Abortion Supportive Collective is a practical support organization serving Oregon and provides support with travel, housing, child care, hot meals, and aftercare supplies. 
    • Donate
    • Volunteer

 

Episode 7

      • Frontera Fund provides financial support for people in the Rio Grande Valley looking to get an abortion. They want to help people in the Valley plan their futures and raise families safely and with dignity, in a culture cultivated by the community.
      • Volunteer
      • Donate
      • South Texans for Reproductive Justice mail free emergency contraception and birth control packages free of charge to counties across South Texas. 
      • Donate
    • For a while, Whole Woman’s Health ran the only abortion clinic in the Rio Grande Valley in Downtown McAllen before being forced to shut down after Dobbs. They reopened a new clinic in Albuquerque, New Mexico, which continues to serve Texans. Including New Mexico, they have five locations across the country and offer pills by mail in Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Mexico, or Virginia. 
    • Donate
    • Share your abortion story 
    • Buy merch

Episode 8

    • Subscribers get emails every weekday tracking anything and everything happening with abortion: from anti-choice legislation and court battles to analysis of conservative strategy and stories of women denied care. 
    • Abortion Every Day also publishes columns, explainers, investigations, interviews, TikTok roundups and more.
    • Subscribe 

 

Episode 9

      • An intersectional, abolitionist, socialist-feminist collective of activists who believe NYC needs an unapologetic grassroots movement to fight for full abortion and reproductive justice.
      • Student advocates for reproductive justice with an intersectional focus organizing across New York. RJC was behind the organizing effort to get medication abortion access on Barnard’s campus.
      • Advocacy guides
      • Merch: NYC For Abortion Rights x Reproductive Justice Collective for New York Abortion Access Fund 
  • National sexual assault hotline (https://www.rainn.org/)
  • Boulder Abortion Clinic (https://www.drhern.com/)
    • Dr. Warren Hern’s abortion clinic has been providing abortion services full-time at the Boulder Abortion Clinic since 1975. The clinic is a private medical practice specializing in abortions later in pregnancy and is dedicated to people making their own choices about their own lives, bodies, and family needs. 

General Resources

  • Abortion Finder (abortionfinder.org) features a comprehensive directory of abortion providers
  • Ineedana.org is another site that provides a simple, up-to-date, source of information for people seeking abortions.
  • Plan C (plancpills.org) includes options for medication abortion through telemedicine, and also self-managed abortion.
Check out OARS at https://www.abortionsquad.org/ and go to reddit.com/r/abortion.

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