#abortion doula

[thesewildreams]

An abortion doula pivots after North Carolina's new 12-week ban : NPR

[rapeculturerealities]

Abortion Doulas: Care Work as a Theory of Change - Ms. Magazine

Writing with remarkable clarity and honesty, Matthews describes the mix of emotions her abortion brought up for her, as well as the ups and downs of undergoing a vacuum aspiration procedure after an ineffective medication abortion.

“The two abortion processes my body went through were absolutely necessary, and they were healthy and safe, and they were made possible and even joyful by my communities. … I’m so grateful for them. They were beautiful and positive experiences,” she wrote. “And also? I grieve them. I have felt deep sadness, physical ache and the deep hollowing of loss. And that’s okay for me to share.”

The rest of the book encompasses a diversity of abortion experiences across race, faith, gender identity and circumstance.

[macbxth-pdf]

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE LISTEN

This meme is a MURDER ATTEMPT.

I am absolutely fucking serious. The original meme, without the big red denial, is someone's attempt to fucking kill people.

There is NO SAFE DOSAGE of pennyroyal oil. Even Mother Earth News says there's no reason to use pennyroyal essential oil for ANYTHING, even topically or as a fragrance, for fuckssake! That should give you some idea about how dangerous it is!

Pennyroyal tea, plant matter in hot water, is a traditional abortifacient. It is *incredibly* dangerous, induces abortion by bringing the body close to organ failure (and frequently pushing the system right over the edge, because dosage is impossible to meter), but I would drink a gallon of it before I took a half-teaspoon of pennyroyal essential oil.

Two teaspoons, taken across 48 hours, has successfully killed someone.

Three teaspoons taken as a single dosage killed the consumer within THREE HOURS.

There is NO SAFE DOSAGE! FOR PENNYROYAL OIL INTERNALLY! NONE!

The person who made this meme is PURPOSEFULLY, ACTIVELY, trying to get desperate people killed!

[schrodingers-fool]

In an MCAT study session with a class, the tutor is painfully white and Mormon and when he asked for people to name 3 good things that are happening someone else responded "Trump's in office" and tutor said "that is good!" kill me now

[hellyeahscarleteen]

Some Important Help Resources for Those in the United States

We want to make sure that you know about -- and share -- some more safe direct help resources available on Scarleteen and elsewhere, as well as some content on our site that might now or soon be particularly relevant to you if you live in the United States:

These images include the following resources:

Direct Help Resources That Don't Call the Police:

Call Blackline: 800.604.5841 (centers BI&POC)

Deaf IGNITE at Willow Domestic Violence Center: 585.348.7233

Domestic Violence Support: thehotline.org

DEHQ: 908.367.3374 (centers the South Asian community)

LGBT National Help Center: 888.843.4564

Scarleteen: Text 206.866.2279 or visit scarleteen.com/ask

StrongHearts Native Helpline: 844.762.8483 (centers Native Americans and Alaska Natives.

Thrive Lifeline: Text “THRIVE” to 313.662.8209 (trans-led text-based support line centering marginalized communities)

Trans Lifeline: 877.565.8860

Abortion Resources:

Pregnancy Support:

All-Options Talkline: 1.888.493.0092

Scarleteen: Text 206.866.2279 or visit scarleteen.com/ask

If You Need an Abortion:

Plan C: www.plancpills.org

Aid Access: aidaccess.org

I Need An A: ineedana.com

Abortion Funds:

National Network of Abortion Funds: abortionfunds.org

Support Before, During, or After Abortion:

Hesperian: The Safe Abortion App

Dopo Co-Op: wearedopo.com (abortion doulas)

Exhale Pro-Voice: Text 617.749.2948 or visit exhaleprovoice.org (focuses on post-abortion support)

Miscarriage & Abortion Hotline: Call or text +1.833.246.2632 or visit mahotline.org

Scarleteen: Text 206.866.2279 or visit scarleteen.com/ask

Legal Support:

Repro Legal Helpline: 844.868.2812

To Identify and Avoid Crisis Pregnancy Centers:

crisispregnancycentermap.com

Content at Scarleteen That May Help:

Rebel Well: A Starter Guide to a Trumped America

The Scarleteen Safety Plan

How to Access a Safe, Self-managed Medical Abortion

Abortion and Digital Privacy: How to Protect Ourselves

Self-care Amidst a Deluge of Anti-trans Legislation

You can also always use Scarleteen’s direct services to get one-on-one, tailored help (always by people, never AI) or to get help finding additional resources. ❤️

[doublydaring]

The Monkees ranked by how well they would handle childbirth

1. Mike - getting pregnant and having a child would solve every problem in his life.

2. Peter - gets pregnant and goes through doula training so he can safely give birth beautifully and naturally at home.

3. Davy - a bit of a struggle with that little frame and he is not a natural mother. maybe a little bit too much of a cool mom.

4. Micky - no matter how old he is this smacks of teen pregnancy. he should not be pregnant he should be in the club. #abortion

[beardedmrbean]

FRANKFORT – Potential mothers could claim child support during pregnancy under a new proposal before the Kentucky legislature.

House Bill 243, filed by Republican Reps. Amy Neighbors of Edmonton and Stephanie Dietz of Edgewood, would change Kentucky law to claim child support "at any time following conception."

The bill is designed to support pregnant mothers, Neighbors said.

"There are a lot of costs associated with a pregnancy and basically getting ready for baby," Neighbors said, pointing to car seats, other needed supplies and lost work time when a pregnant mother has to attend doctor appointments.

But abortion-rights advocates see the bill as part of an attempt to advance an anti-abortion agenda by laying the groundwork for fetal personhood under Kentucky law.

Bills based on the idea that a fetus is a person have been filed across the country after the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022.

Neighbors said her decision to introduce the bill was not directly influenced by Kentucky's ban on most abortions but rather by a desire to support women during pregnancy.

The measure also would allow paternity testing prior to birth, as long as it's safe to do so, Neighbors said.

The bill was sent to the Committee on Committees on Jan. 11. Neighbors said she believes HB 243 will have widespread support from House Republicans.

Critics see bill as attempt at fetal personhood

Abortion-rights advocates told The Courier Journal the measure is an attempt to cement into law the belief that life begins at conception.

Rep. Lisa Willner, D-Louisville, said the measure would create a "slippery slope" for pregnant people.

"What the bill would do would be to grant full personhood to an embryo from the moment of conception," Willner said. "These so-called personhood laws could result in a pregnant woman facing child abuse charges and even incarceration if she seeks treatment for drug or alcohol abuse.”

“The legislature should instead focus on bolstering actual support for pregnancy, such as ensuring insurance access, covering doula and midwifery services, and expanding mental health supports," Willner said.

"This bill is an underhanded attempt to advance an anti-abortion agenda and lay the groundwork for fetal personhood in state law by allowing people to seek child support for a fetus," said Tamarra Wieder, Kentucky state director for the Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates.

Wieder is also concerned the bill would open the door for surveillance of pregnant people because it would require the state to verify their eligibility for child support. She agreed with Willner that the legislature should focus on health care during pregnancy.

Planned Parenthood will ask its supporters to call legislators and express their opposition, Wieder said.

"We may actually be able to stop this because Kentuckians don't want more restrictions to abortion, and this is another abortion restriction that would be codified in law," Wieder said.

But when asked when asked about the comments from abortions-rights supporters, Neighbors said, "I can’t stress enough that my goal is to simply be supportive of mothers, children, and families."

National trend

The bill is the first Kentucky measure Willner has seen that creates a potential personhood definition for a fetus, she said.

But other states and Congress have considered, and in some cases adopted, similar bills around child support.

In 2021, Utah adopted a measure that requires fathers to pay 50% of the mother's pregnancy expenses. Indiana's legislature last year expanded the list of childbirth-related expenses fathers could be held responsible for paying, though the legislature stopped short of categorizing those payments as child support.

Georgia's abortion law applies the state's child support rules to any fetus "with a detectable heartbeat."

Washington Republicans have introduced bills similar to the current proposal in Kentucky. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, in December introduced in their respective chambers the "Supporting Healthy Pregnancy Act," which would require biological fathers to pay child support for medical expenses during pregnancy.

"These bills are often introduced by folks who are pro-life or anti-abortion who believe that a fetus or unborn child is a rights-holding person," said Mary Ziegler, a law professor at the University of California-Davis. She is writing a book about the fetal personhood movement.

"The strategy behind them is to set a precedent that, you know, that life in the womb has rights essentially, which would obviously have extensions to abortion too," Ziegler said. "Essentially it would mean liberal abortion laws would be unconstitutional."

A separate Kentucky bill introduced by Sen. David Yates, D-Louisville, would add exceptions for rape, incest, maternal health, and lethal fetal anomalies to Kentucky's near-total ban on abortions. __________________

I thought this was what they wanted, people keep going after pro life people for fetal child support and now that it's on the docket they're mad for some reason.

[o0katiekins0o]

I was raised by insanely anti-choice evangelicals. My own personal anti-choice dogma, however, died a slow death until taking its final rasping breath when I turned 23.

I was a first time mom to a newborn and a newly minted labor doula besides. I bonded with another young woman my age who had a son a few months older than mine and fell pregnant with her current partner.

I was going to get to be her doula and I was thrilled to bits!

Then one day she messages me- She's not pregnant anymore. She's okay but she doesn't feel like talking about it.

After a few days I send her a message. Something along the lines of my heart goes out to you etc... and she asks to meet.

I come to her house and we sit down on her couch.

She looks me in the eyes and says "it wasn't a miscarriage. You don't have to grieve for me like it was, but I couldn't take it if you judged me for having an abortion. He [her ex] hurt me. He was going to hurt my son."

She tells me he'd been getting getting violent. And after she fell pregnant she learned he'd sabotaged her birth control. He'd made it clear he would use the baby, and his wealthy family's money, to make sure she was chained to him by this baby and no one- not even her first baby from a previous relationship, would be allowed to come between them.

She acted solely for the safety of her first child. And I knew in my bones right then and there I would have done the same thing.

Without the complication of a pregnancy to gum up the works in the legal system she was able to escape with her baby from an abuser with relative ease. She got a VPO and restraining order and, to my knowledge, hasn't heard from him again.

Abortion saved lives that day.

[feminist-furby-freak]

How's that leather boot taste, shitstain terf?

Whose boot am I licking? Like actually. TERFs are alienated from the mainstream left and obviously the mainstream right. Why would we chose such a politically inconvenient position unless we really believed Feminism is that important.

Do you think I’m some conservative puppet as a lesbian, somewhat gnc, Marxist, civilly disobedient, cop-hating abortion doula? Bffr.

[mariacallous]

MEXICO CITY—The details of Esmeralda’s miscarriage sent shock waves throughout Mexican society this October.

The 14-year-old Indigenous girl said she was sexually abused by a family member and hadn’t even known that she was pregnant. But instead of receiving support for what she says was a miscarriage, Esmeralda was hit with intentional homicide charges. She was facing a three-year prison sentence and the prospect of having to pay a roughly $25,000 fine to the baby’s father—her alleged abuser.

The case outraged feminists and abortion rights activists and spurred them into action. They provided legal support, conducted a media campaign, and organized protests. The local prosecutor’s office folded under the pressure, and dropped the charges in late October.

Abortion rights are having a moment in Mexico. The country’s Supreme Court ruled in 2021 that penalizing abortion is unconstitutional, and it reaffirmed the decision in 2023. But the government has been slow to comply, and the procedure remains illegal in many localities, such as Querétaro, Esmeralda’s home state. Her case drives home a difficult reality for activists here in Mexico: Despite recent successes, they will have to maintain a powerful grassroots vigilance against a state and medical system that they can never fully trust.

“We used to have the fantasy that once abortion was legal, we were not going to be necessary,” said Verónica Cruz Sánchez, a pioneering abortion rights activist in Mexico. That fantasy has faded.

A major force in maintaining this grassroots presence is comprised of Mexico’s abortion collectives—groups mostly made up of volunteers who help provide access to abortion services. Cruz Sánchez is the director of Las Libres, or “The Free Ones,” one of the country’s first abortion collectives. The movement has proliferated rapidly since Las Libres was founded in 2000—today, researchers estimate there are 300 to 400 such groups in the country.

Abortion collectives are known for providing self-administered abortion pills—mailing mifepristone and misoprostol to women across the country—as well as guidance on how to use them.

But many volunteers who spoke with The Fuller Project and Foreign Policy say a lot of the support they provide is emotional. The women they work with are often going through one of the most vulnerable moments of their lives—and the treatment that they receive through official channels can be insensitive, even cruel.

Paulina Córdova, who describes herself as an abortion acompañante, or abortion doula, draws from her own experiences when helping the women who choose to come to her instead of going to the hospital.

In 2018, Córdova had a miscarriage at 24 weeks. She arrived at the hospital 6 centimeters dilated, but when her contractions stopped, the doctors didn’t give her any information about what was happening. Afterward, they sat her next to other women who had just given birth.

“I was struggling with the loss and the pain, and the woman in front of me was holding her newborn surrounded by flowers and balloons,��� Córdova recalled.

Abortion collectives exist in many parts of the world, but they have a particularly strong presence in Latin America. Here, they’ve grown with the continent’s feminist “Green Wave” movement and the medical community’s acceptance of self-administered abortion.

When she first started this work, Cruz Sánchez would match women seeking abortions with doctors who were willing to provide them. One day, one of the gynecologists whom she worked with came back from a conference abroad and said: “Vero, I learned to do abortions with medicine.”

Cruz Sánchez started reading up on the World Health Organization’s protocols and realized that she didn’t need doctors anymore. She and her peers would train women on using the pills, and they would go on to teach others.

But the stigma around abortion pills took a long time to go away. For decades, the medical community had emphasized the importance of supervised abortions and warned against clandestine procedures. In Mexico City, first-trimester abortion has been legal since 2007, but guidance stipulated that the procedure had to be done in a clinical setting.

The stigma contributed to the collectives operating in relative secrecy at first—and so did the fact that abortion had been illegal in almost all of Latin America until the 2010s. Organizers wouldn’t publicize the information on how to use abortion pills and would instead talk up the dangers of clandestine abortions.

Cruz Sánchez remembers that feminists would scold her for talking too openly about abortion. But she wouldn’t listen, and she kept training more women. While some organizations recommended that acompañantes never provide their real names or numbers while working, she did not heed their caution. “She said, ‘let’s stop this nonsense. Why won’t you share your name? If we don’t think this is a crime, why are we acting like it is?,” said Ninde MolRe, the president of Abortistas, another abortion collective, while discussing Cruz Sánchez

Gradually, that attitude of secrecy began to change. Other organizations, such as Fondo María in Mexico City, realized that the stigma was hurting women and started talking about abortion as something that could be hard, but also liberating and transformative.

Their work received a further boost from the Green Wave movement. The massive protests organized by Argentinian women in 2018 to demand legal abortion inspired women across Latin America, and Mexico was no exception. The green bandanas worn by Argentinian protesters spread around Mexico like wildfire. Every time that Esmeralda’s lawyer appeared on television, she wore a green bandana on her left hand or neck.

The emboldened movement has made enormous progress in recent years, especially at the federal level. The ground reality is messier—roughly half of Mexico’s 32 states have legalized abortion, meaning that abortion collectives have to navigate a patchwork of conflicting rules, similar to the situation in the United States.

In the process, the collectives have found themselves negotiating an uneasy relationship with the state—part parallel service provider, part watchdog.

For instance, informal abortion providers have long been an open secret in the state of Chiapas, where the local government has been happy to look the other way because they were helping curb the state’s maternal mortality rate, according to Suzanne Veldhuis, a medical doctor and researcher who focuses on abortion collectives.

Sandra Cardona, who heads a collective called Necesito Abortar, or “I need an abortion,” lives in Nuevo León, a state where abortion is only legal in cases of rape, incest, and situations where the mother’s life is at risk. There, pro-choice doctors refer women to her when they need access to abortion services. But Necesito Abortar also provides services to women in states such as Oaxaca, where abortion has been legal since 2019.

“Women prefer having their abortions with us since they [doctors] treat them so badly,” Cardona said.

The widespread mistreatment of women seeking abortions has led some collectives to take on more of a monitoring role. In Hidalgo, where first-trimester abortion was legalized in 2021, the Diramona collective created an abortion hotline through which organizers refer people to local public hospitals and keep an eye on the outcomes— according to data shared by the collective with Foreign Policy and The Fuller Project, 86 percent of the abortions performed in Hidalgo public hospitals this year were referred by them.

Mexican activists are drawing inspiration not just from collectives flourishing across the country and throughout Latin America, but also from historical examples. A few years ago, MolRe saw a documentary about the Jane Collective, an underground abortion service that operated in Chicago in the 1970s. Several of its members were eventually arrested, but the charges were dropped after the Supreme Court passed its Roe v. Wade decision in 1973.

While Roe—overturned in June 2022—was widely seen for many years as a landmark victory for abortion access, MolRe felt oddly sorry about the fate of the collective. She was sad about the structure that it had, which was lost once abortion became legal and the movement lost its momentum.

For MolRe, the lesson to be drawn from the Jane Collective’s story is clear—Mexican collectives will keep demanding abortion access from the state, but that won’t stop them from providing it themselves.

[boy-gender]

I'm scared I'm going to lose my hormones (i may have already) and with abortion rights being overturned dysphoria is hitting me full force but I don't feel part of the conversation because I'm not Women :/

I understand the feeling, which is why instead of "womens health," I think of things by the organ.

I'm a man with a uterus- I need uterine care. I'm a man with ovaries- I need ovarian care. I'm a man with the ability to get pregnant, so I need pregnancy care- that includes access to safe, readily available abortions, but also includes genetic testing, and nutrition information, and access to birth doulas and midwives and doctors. Medical care needs to be less gendered. Not all cis women can get pregnant, so some dont need pregnancy care. Post menopausal cis women don't need the same type of care that a young cis girl undergoing puberty needs. There is no reason to gender this- theyre both womens care, but with entirely different needs. In the medical field we should be as specific as possible- specific to the organ, or the field, or the problem.

And, if I can add some additional perspective, abortion rights effect everybody. Everybody. Yes, even cisgender men who cannot in any way shape or form be at risk of pregnancy, have no need to ever go to a gynecologist, and "have no skin in this fight." They do, in fact. Everyone does. Because abortion rights are just one branch of the right to bodily autonomy. Being able to do what you want with your body without the interference of the government. This includes being able to transition, get an abortion, undergo IVF, choose how you want your body to be handled after you die, get tattoos, dye your hair, get shitty suspicious ear piercings at claires, be fat, do kink, eat a weed gummy, donate organs. All of these things should be decisions between yourself, since it's your body and you decide what goes on/in it, and the professional in that field whose help you are seeking. Your obgyn, your surgeon, your tattoo artist. The government should not be able to infringe on the rights of citizens making informed consensual decisions regarding their own autonomy.

That effects *everyone.* So I urge you to stay in the conversation not just because you may require abortion care, but because you are an autonomous person, and bodily autonomy is on the chopping block for all of us. You are a part of this conversation not because you're a woman, or because you have certain genitalia, but because you are a /person/.

[shirleyjacksonenthusiast]

The deliberate absence of abortions in Gilmore Girls

The philosophy, "Love is hard. One must not give up" permeates through the show. Extravagance (effort) and not extravagance (monetary) is shown to be the key to love. It's present of course in Luke's storyline but also for Dean, Jess, Logan, Jason, Dave, Lane, Richard, Emily, etc. Both platonic and romantic, over and over you see that none of these characters get over their love especially on screen. But this thought process becomes cancerous when it comes to pregnancy.

As I've been going through the seasons, multiple pregnancy plotlines have popped up. Over and over, someone gets pregnant and there is never any mention of abortion. I'm not just talking of people having it but also of taking it under consideration. Emily and Richard suggested marriage to Lorelai over and over but no one ever mentions that Lorelai ever even considered abortion.

With Lane as well, you see her completely panicking over being pregnant, the word abortion is never used. No matter how unprepared anyone is, what their financial circumstances are, or how one got pregnant, no one ever considers getting an abortion. Lorelai tries to convince Sookie that having a third child with Jackson (i won't go into Jackson, it pisses me off too much) would be a good thing. She seems to be in league with her best friend's husband over her best friend here. No mentions of getting rid of the baby, just a load of how they're so angry and how could he do this.

Babies are the hardest part of the "Love is hard. One must not give up" philosophy and the show preaches it. Every single good character seems to overcome the difficulties of childcare. Liz fails as a parent to Jess but ultimately is shown to succeed with Doula because she's "good" now. Her redemption has turned her into a good mother. Lane, Lorelai, Sookie, they're good people so they succeed with their babies.

Sherry and Christopher fail with GG at first but Christopher is never shown to be an evil person, just an irresponsible one so he eventually succeeds. Sherry's redemption is off screen so we never get to see her succeed.

While the show is never shy in its discussions of sex, it is very shy when it comes to the consequences. Everyone chooses to have the child over and over and over no matter what they want in their life. This is the one thing that stood out to me that had no standing in the real world. We fall into the extremes of the love is hard philosophy and take cutting people we love off or aborting babies out of the real life equation. Even if we see certain instances of cutting people out, it gets resolved if the love is strong enough or if they just put in the effort.

Gilmore girls ultimately becomes a show for the romantic where everything works out eventually. We can't live in a utopia, that counteracts the difficulties and the effort to overcome them philosophy. It's about community and help yes, but mostly it is about resilient individuals who happen to be in a community. We also see Rory reading Ayn Rand in one of the seasons. Most of the books mentioned are very intentional and I think we must look closely at why Fountainhead is considered a book that aligns with their ethics.

In the end, these characters will choose to believe in their individual strength and have the child and raise it correctly because they are good people in the narrative. No one ever wants to question their own capability or capacity. In the end, we will see children running around and their parents' finances being sorted BECAUSE they are good and hardworking, there is no other option.

[uwmspeccoll]

A Bodily Autonomy Decorative Sunday

These gorgeous posters are a selection of work from Our Bodies Our Resistance, published by the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative in 2023 in an edition of 150. The collection was curated by Molly Fair, a multidisciplinary artist, member of Justseeds, and a librarian (huzzah!). The thirteen risograph prints, cover sheet, and colophon were printed at Cowboy Press in Richmond, VA. They come wrapped in green hanky, screen-printed by Mary Tremonte at Lavender Estero in Pittsburg, PA. The green bandana is a symbol of the Marea Verde (“Green Wave” or “Green Tide”) an abortion rights movement that began in Argentina in the early 2000s and has since swept across Latin America. The design for the hanky was “cut from one piece of paper” by artist Devon Cohen, and “uplifts grizzly bears and three plants -- tansy, rue, and pennyroyal -- that have documented use over the centuries as abortifacients” (from the colophon). 

Some of the posters are also available as digital download here, for use in organizing work under an Attribution NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. Check out our photo captions for artist attributions.

Featuring art by Devon Cohen, Alec Dunn, Molly Fair, Sarah Farahat, Christeen Francis, Sanya Hyland, Kill Joy, Josh MacPhee, Fernando Martí, Andrea Narno, Saiyare Refaei, Jessica Sabogal, Meredith Stern, and Mary Tremonte.

60% of the proceeds of this portfolio will be donated to the National Network of Abortion Funds’ Collective Power Fund. This fund redistributes “direct abortion funding to 28 member abortion funds across more than 20 states. Funding is concentrated in the South and Midwest, where it’s often hardest to get an abortion. The Collective Power Fund supports the cost of an abortion, transportation to a clinic, childcare. lodging, and abortion doula support.”

-https://justseeds.org/product/our-bodies-our-resistance-portfolio/

Check out more Decorative Sunday posts here.

-Olivia, Special Collections Graduate Intern

[rgr-pop]

TIME SENSITIVE ACTION REQUEST!!: can you my beautiful artists/clever people on tumblr make us some abortion button designs this weekend? To sell to raise money for Mountain Access Brigade, a collective of abortion doulas funding access to abortion in east tennessee?

I’m tabling a week from today at Stoopfest in Lansing, which will be headlined this year by Jhariah, R.A.P Ferreira, Weakened Friends, and Direct Hit!. I’m tabling with the Lansing DSA Women’s Section (working title) as well as a coalition of other women organizing with leftist orgs in Lansing (we don’t have a name yet but we call them “the girlies”). We’re looking to hit $5k on our fundraiser by the end of the month, but equally importantly, I’m tabling to meet people who want to plug into projects we’re getting off the ground to organize to defeat transphobic homophobic and anti-abortion power in Lansing, especially (my baby pet project if you know me irl!) launching our campaign to chase out and shut down the anti-abortion fake clinics in the city.

Here’s our fundraising page, you can donate and share (please!) but you should also read it to get a sense of how we talk about our vision:

https://fund.nnaf.org/team/565397

So I need YOU to design abortion loving buttons for me to make to sell for the fundraiser and start conversations that connect people :). Please help lol. The vibe is queer, mutual aidy, creative! Many of the girls I’m going with are harm reduction activists and passionate about self management and self controlled healthcare.

We have a lot of fun/funny ones made already but we need more sweet/straightforward ones that inspire people and ground the sloganing in our principles. Some wording you can use in your designs (but please feel free to think of others)/some jumping off points/guidance:

- abortion is magic

- abortion access (or just access) saves lives

- we use the term “reproductive freedom” as a matter of practice (pro-choice and reproductive justice are okay, but we love this one)

- “bodily autonomy” is another one we orient around

- pro “repro worker” slogans (“i <3 repro workers” always good)

- “i fund abortion”

- tying in safer sex slogans (would love something like this in an 80s/90s safe sex campaign style)

- harm reduction/mutual aid framing (would looove some good ideas here)

- i REALLY want to come with something about bisexual women being statistically most likely to have an abortion (one of my favorite communist conversation starters irl) - in general messages about queer people getting abortions is a vibe!

- we don’t use “women” when referring to who gets abortions but feminist messaging is great. I’d stay away from body parts as imagery

- the classic, “i love abortion”

- slogan-free imagery that supports the vibe

- Y’allidarity :):):)

- This line from a lead organizer with DSA’s Trans Rights and Bodily Autonomy Campaign has stuck with me as a guide, it really gets at the core of this work for me: “In a political climate characterized by fear and isolation, our voice is steady, loving, direct, and shows courage in our democratic socialist convictions.”

HOW CAN YOU HELP?

- Make me some designs on a 2.25 inch circle button template (im a design idiot and need help) in whatever file format and give me permission to print them and turn them into buttons to sell for the fundraiser. THEY DONT HAVE TO BE AMAZING LOOOKING! email me at rikki.g.reynolds@gmail.com

- reply to this post with specific wording ideas if the above inspires you!

- share this post :) and hit up your designer friends who have time this weekend! abortion fund-a-thon is about making hard asks of your friends who can help, and you’ll be glad you did.

- if you want to help promote this fundraiser on your own socials or somewhere else, feel free but you can also dm me for ideas!

Sorry for the last minute (this is why I’m really calling on tumblr GOATs), but I would loooooove to make buttons next MONDAY or possibly as late as Wednesday— I’ll edit this post when I know for sure. It’s an emergency! But you’ll be saving lives!

What can I do for you?

If you ask, I can post pictures on twitter and tag you if you want some traffic (some of our posts get a little traffic). I can PROBABLY also send you a finished button of your design after fund a thon season (May) is over but I don’t want to make that promise for certain yet.

ty!!!

[marveltrumpshate]

Women's Rights

As the saying goes, women’s rights are human rights. Despite growing threats to autonomy and agency, women are forcefully declaring their place in the world and actively working to ensure equity for themselves and future generations. The following are organizations whose focus is on doing just that. 

For more information on donation methods and accepted currencies, please refer to our list of organizations page.

Center for Reproductive Rights

The Center for Reproductive Rights is the only global legal advocacy organization dedicated to ensuring reproductive rights are protected in law as fundamental human rights for the dignity, equality, health, and well-being of every person. With local partners across five continents, they have secured legal victories before national courts, UN Committees, and regional human rights bodies on issues such as access to life-saving obstetrics care, contraception, maternal health, and safe abortion services and the prevention of forced sterilization and child marriage.

Global Fund for Women

Global Fund for Women is the largest global organization for gender justice. They support grassroots feminist movements and organizations around the world for maximum local impact and have provided over $184 million in grants to 5,000+ women’s funds in 176 countries over the past three decades. Their recent focus has been providing mobilization and networking resources for women and girls in their own communities and amplifying those voices so they’re heard in the global community.

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. They provide their grassroots base of over 100 autonomous, diverse organizations/abortion funds in the U.S. and abroad with leadership development, infrastructure support, and technical assistance. Some fund procedures while others cover abortion pills, transportation, lodging, childcare, doula services, and other forms of support.

The Pad Project

Period stigma and lack of access to affordable, safe, and effective menstrual products are a global problem. The Pad Project partners with local communities internationally to serve people of all genders who menstruate through funding the placement of pad machines and implementing washable pad programs. They also pair menstrual product access with education—workshops on menstrual hygiene management and sexual and reproductive health and their award-winning documentary, Period. End of Sentence.

Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network

RAINN is the largest anti-sexual violence organization in the U.S. and operates a 24-hour national phone/online hotline as well as a DoD Safe Helpline for the Department of Defense that provide support for survivors. They partner with over 1,000 local organizations nationwide and coordinate with state and federal departments to ensure that sexual assault is prevented, perpetrators are held accountable, and survivors get justice. They also educate the public, media, and entertainment industry about sexual assault. While we put RAINN in this post because women and girls experience sexual violence at high rates, people of all genders can be victims and RAINN helps everyone regardless of gender.

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Anyways. The thing abt s12 is that it started off so so strong and then just piddled out. Society if cas’s B plot for the second half of the season was literally like. Cas growing more and more distant as salmondean become more and more enmeshed in the bmol, because cas is well aware that the bmol would kill him if given half the chance. Gay angel on the run with his pregnant anti-abortion bestie and trying to find a way to help her NOT pop like a balloon during the birth. Gay angel sitting there like a guard dog while Kelly naps in a motel room. Gay angel clever plot to kill Dagon (Sam and dean do not appear in this episode). Gay angel in a doula class. Gay angel buying paint at Home Depot and killing a demon in the parking lot. Gay angel buys a coffee, finds himself embroiled in the messy internal politics of a group of monsters hiding out from the bmol. Meanwhile mary is being slowly but surely brainwashed by ketch and tony. She’s losing little chunks of time. She goes to sleep in ketch’s bed and wakes up in her own. She’s a little more brutal than she was before. A little too cruel. And she doesn’t know why. And then, she starts losing whole hunts. She wakes up with blood on her hands and doesn’t remember how it got there. She dreams about being in a chair, electrodes on her head and the smell of burning herbs in her nose. And crucially, it is not just Mary this happens to. Every American hunter that fully commits to the bmol is getting brainwashed just like her. Climax of the season is NOT ooga booga Lucifer is going to steal the baby!!!! It’s dean voice oh my god. My brainwashed mom is going to try and kill my estranged boyfriend, his weird Christian girlbestie, and her evil hellspawn baby. And THEN. just when they think they’re in the clear, because Mary os unbrainwashed and the bmol is pretty thoroughly gutted, Lucifer shows up.