Upcoming: One Year Since the Implementation of Florida’s Near-Total Abortion Ban
It’s impossible to account for every story and future changed because politicians interfered with the lives of people they’ll never meet. How has your life been impacted since the abortion ban was passed?
Tell your story.
Call for Photos: Denim Day and Sexual Assault Awareness
Denim Day, Wednesday, April 30th, is the longest-running sexual violence prevention and education campaign in history. Across the world, people wear jeans and denim in solidarity with survivors and in protest against the misconceptions that surround sexual violence. Help us amplify this campaign by submitting your photo wearing denim by April 29th to add to our coalition posts for Denim Day later this month. (To learn more about Denim Day, click here.)
Events & Volunteer Opportunities
Intersectionality Teach-Inw/50501 and Voices of Florida
Saturday, April 19th at 6:00pm EST
Click here for more info.
Spiritual Support and Counseling Online Trainingw/All Options and Faith Aloud
April 23rd-May 28th
Learn tools & skills to provide open-hearted, compassionate spiritual support to people in their reproductive decisions and experiences.
Learn more here.
A Call for Resistance in Support of Immigrant Families w/Faith in Public Life
Thursday, April 24th at 2:00pm EST
Orlando
RSVP here.
Virtual Screening of Wadjda w/Planned Parenthood & NAPAWF
Friday, April 25th 6:00pm-8:00pm EST
Click here to register for the virtual event in honor of Arab-American Heritage Month.
News Roundup
Florida
Florida democrats fear new legislation would set the stage for “fetal personhood” ruling
By Jake Stofan, Action News Jax
Expecting parents could soon be able to sue for damages if someone causes them to lose a pregnancy if a bill sailing through the Florida Legislature becomes law.
Reproductive health access is on Florida employees’ minds
By Mahika Kukday, WUSF Tampa
A national study by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research found that one in 10 adults planning to have kids in the next decade has moved or knows someone who’s moved to another state because of abortion restrictions.
Bipartisan support suggests better sex ed in FL schools. It’s the opposite.
By Laura Goodhue, Palm Beach Post
As a Palm Beach County resident, the Executive Director of the Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates, and a mom of two teenagers, I have grave concerns about our young people’s future in Florida.
Advocates rally to keep more Florida babies alive
By Cindy Krischer Goodman, South Florida Sun Sentinel
As birth rates drop and infant deaths rise, Florida women are speaking out to keep more babies alive.
Florida saw the largest decline in abortions last year of any state, new report shows
By McKenna Schueler, Orlando Weekly
After Florida’s restrictive abortion law took effect last May, banning most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, the state saw a dramatic decline in abortions, despite a slight increase nationally.
Senate passes bill allowing safe surrender of infants
By Andrew Powell, Florida Politics
The Senate has passed by a vote of 33-4 a measure that would allow newborn infants to be placed inside boxes at certain locations to prevent them from harm.
National
Republicans plow ahead with anti-abortion agenda in states where voters approved constitutional amendments
By Adam Edelman, NBC News
Even as Republicans swept into power in Washington in last year’s elections, abortion rights supporters found success at the ballot box across the country.
‘We are flying blind’: RFK Jr.’s cuts halt data collection on abortion, cancer, HIV and more
By Alice Miranda Ollstein, Politico
The federal teams that count public health problems are disappearing — putting efforts to solve those problems in jeopardy.
An emboldened anti-abortion faction wants women who have abortions to face criminal charges
By Christine Fernando, Associated Press
As Kristan Hawkins, president of the national anti-abortion group Students for Life, tours college campuses, she has grown accustomed to counterprotests from abortion rights activists.
Far-Right Group That Helped Overturn ‘Roe’ Is Officially Going After Birth Control
By Susan Rinkunas, Jezebel
Far-Right Group That Helped Overturn ‘Roe’ Is Officially Going After Birth Control
Stuffed in the 900-page Project 2025 playbook, among the strategies to ban abortion pills and gut federal agencies, are several proposals to limit access to birth control.
CDC team that updated go-to physician reference on contraceptive science is fired
By Meredith Wadman, Science
The eight-person team behind what’s considered the bible of contraceptive care among physicians was fired as part of the mass job cuts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) earlier this month.
Doulas, midwives and lawmakers challenge erasure of Black women in maternal health care
By Sofia Resnick, States Newsroom
Brandie Bishop-Stacker was absent from school the day her little sister was born 24 years ago. Instead, the then-10-year-old went to a Georgia hospital with her mom, rubbing her feet, getting her water, and comforting her during labor pains.
Stability in the Number of Abortions from 2023 to 2024 in US States Without Total Bans Masks Major Shifts in Access
By Isaac Maddow-Zimet and Kimya Forouzan, Guttmacher Institute
New full-year estimates from Guttmacher Institute’s Monthly Abortion Provision Study show that the total number of abortions provided in all US states without total abortion bans remained relatively stable between 2023 and 2024, increasing by less than 1%, and the proportion of people traveling across state lines to obtain an abortion declined slightly, from 16% to 15%.
New Report Reveals How Abortion, Pregnancy Care, Broadband Internet, and Food Deserts Are Endangering Women Across the U.S.
Staff Report, National Women’s Law Center
A new report from the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) exposes the devastating reality of reproductive health care and resource deserts where abortion care, pregnancy care, broadband internet, and access to healthy food are severely limited or nonexistent.
Job Openings
Florida Access Network is hiring a Digital Organizer.
$50,000-$55,000/year.
Apply by 4/30.
Abortion Access Front is hiring a Social Media Manager.
$60,000-$65,000/year.
Apply here.
The Emerging Leaders Network is accepting applications for their year-long program for organizers.
Learn more and apply by 6/1.
Educate Us is hiring for their Youth Advisory Board.
Apply by 5/23.
ACLU is hiring a Summer Social Media intern.
Stipend available.
Apply here.
Progress Florida is hiring a Digital Organizer.
$38,000-$50,000/year.
Apply here.
Men 4 Choice is hiring a Communications Director.
$70,000-$85,000/year.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
Power to Decide is hiring a Philanthropy Director.
$108,000-$125,000/year, fully remote.
Click here to apply.
Equality Florida & Mukti Fund are hiring a Community Organizing Fellow, Grants Fellow, & Health, Education, and Program Impact fellow.
Learn more here.
The ERA Coalition is hiring Public Policy & Social Media interns.
Class credit available.
Learn more here.
