Abortion funds show up for patients emotionally and financially, and the need for their services keeps increasing. Each year, they participate in fund-a-thon, an opportunity to not only fundraise to support their work, but to be matched financially to double their impact. As May closes out, so does fund-a-thon; if you haven’t already donated or have the means to do so again, please consider giving an amount that’s meaningful to you.
They are SO close to reaching their goals but they need our help:
- Access Reproductive Care – Southeast
- Broward Women’s Emergency Fund
- Emergency Medical Assistance – West Palm Beach
- Florida Access Network
- Tampa Bay Abortion Fund
- Women’s Emergency Network
Whether we were the ones to donate or to ask for a little help affording a ride or staying overnight, our collective support and use of abortion funds connects us, even through impossible circumstances, because we take care of us.
Call to Action: Send a Sex Ed Guide to your School Board
Every young person deserves quality sex education. You can help make sure they get it. Join advocates across the country in sending the EducateUS Sex Ed 101 Guide to your local school board members to tell them you need them to champion sex ed in your district!
2. Share the call to action on Facebook and Instagram.
Events & Volunteer Opportunities
Tabling at Kissimmee PrideFest w/Planned Parenthood
Saturday, May 31st with shifts 1:00pm-7:00pm EST
Kissimmee
Click here to volunteer.
Florida Access Network is helping to train a new generation of leaders for abortion access!
Support their fundraising events this weekend:
- Saturday, May 31st 6:00pm-7:30pm EST, virtual event about Las Libres and networks of accessing abortion care.
- Sunday, June 1st 6:00pm-8:00pm EST, virtual film screening of Belly of the Beast
Unity in Movement Benefit Concert for Florida Access Network & Neighborhood Fridge
Saturday, May 31st 8:00pm-1:00am EST
Will’s Pub, Orlando
Click here to register.
Rainbow Room Summer Series w/Planned Parenthood
Every week, June 1st – August 24th, Sundays at 4:00pm EST
A virtual LGBTQ+ Centered Sex Education Series
Click here to register. (The PDF is clickable)
Power & Purpose Training w/ACLU
Saturday, June 7th 9:00am-4:30pm EST
Miami
Click here to register.
The Florida Anne Braden Program is accepting applications for the fall/winter program.
The program develops white anti-racist leaders as part of an overall multiracial movement-building strategy.
Apply by 6/8 to join the training program.
No Kings #Resistance Day of Action w/Pinellas NOW
Saturday, June 14th 10:30am-12:00pm EST
Tyrone Square, St. Pete
Click here for more info.
The A Word, Film Screening & Panel Discussion w/RBG Fund
Tuesday, June 24th 5:30pm-8:00pm EST
Tallahassee
Click here to sign up.
Volunteer Training Calls for The Medicaid Expansion Amendment
Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays
Learn about how collectively, we could ensure 1.4 million Floridians get access to health care.
Register here for the virtual training.
Keep up the pressure to protect Medicaid.
Use this form from National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice to contact legislators today!
News Roundup
Florida
How a Florida court took unusual steps to limit abortion access for minors
By Romy Ellenbogen, Tampa Bay Times
A Florida appeals court took an unusual legal step when it earlier this month struck down as unconstitutional a law allowing minors to get abortions without parental consent.
Florida Republicans Came Up With a New Lie About History to Support Extreme Abortion Bans
By Naomi Cahn, Maxine Eichner, and Mary Ziegler, Slate
A new case in Florida is set to undermine what little abortion access remains in the state, and it’s all based on a lie.
Dispute over Abortion for Florida Teen Could Have Far-Reaching Consequences
By Mary Ziegler, State Court Report
An intermediate appellate court in Florida teed up a major constitutional clash that could reshape abortion access and state law on parental and fetal rights.
Planned Parenthood won’t back down in Florida
By Barbara A. Zdravecky, Tampa Bay Times
By any measure, the past three years have been among the most difficult in the history of reproductive rights in Florida.
National
Even where abortion is still legal, many brick-and-mortar clinics are closing
By Kate Wells, Michigan Public + KFF
On the last day of patient care at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Marquette, Michigan, a port town on the shore of Lake Superior, dozens of people crowded into the parking lot and alley, holding pink homemade signs that read “Thank You!” and “Forever Grateful.”
House Republicans vote to defund hundreds of Planned Parenthood clinics (video)
By Lawrence O’Donnell, MSNBC
Donald Trump and the Republicans’ budget bill could take reproductive health care access away from more than 1.1 million Planned Parenthood patients.
After CDC cuts, doctors fear women will lose access to contraception research
By Katia Riddle, NPR
To most people, the eight-person team was indistinguishable from the hundreds of other scientists and researchers cut in April during the mass firings at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
RFK Jr. ends COVID vaccine recommendation for healthy children, pregnant people
By Jennifer Shutt, States Newsroom
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. changed the federal government’s recommendation for the coronavirus vaccine on Tuesday, saying healthy children and healthy pregnant people no longer need to get it.
What Top IVF Advocates Want From the White House Fertility Care Plan
By Elisha Brown, Rewire
Republican President Donald Trump, who called himself the “father of IVF” on the campaign trail, issued an executive order in February directing policy advisers to create a report on how to make in vitro fertilization more accessible for Americans.
Advocates, lawmakers rally for legislative clarity on Georgia’s abortion law amid Adriana Smith’s case
By Rarione Maniece, WXIA Atlanta
Georgia Democrats are calling on Gov. Brian Kemp to clarify what care is legally allowed under the state’s abortion law after a pregnant woman declared brain dead in February remains on life support.
Libraries: the Frontline in the Fight for Abortion Access—and Against Misinformation
By Leslie Lopez, Common Dreams
Robert Francis Prevost was recently named as Pope Francis’ successor to one of the leading religions in the world, which makes the fact that 60% of U.S. Catholics think abortion should be legal in all or some cases even more powerful.
‘How we ended up here’: Authors on effects of abortion bans
By Sofia Resnick, States Newsroom
During the pandemic, when many people were reevaluating their life goals, Colleen Long texted her childhood best friend and fellow journalist Rebecca Little to see if, together, they could write a relatable, even funny, book about pregnancy loss.
2 Of Trump’s Court Picks Argued Abortion Pill ‘Starves The Baby To Death’ In Womb
By Alanna Vagianos, HuffPost
Two of President Donald Trump’s nominees for lifetime federal judgeships co-authored a major challenge to the abortion pill on behalf of Missouri.