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Events & Volunteer Opportunities
Support the Medicaid Expansion Campaign
- Sign the petition yourself and ask everyone in your household. You can request a pre-paid envelope that can fit up to 7 signed petitions!
- Help distribute petitions at an upcoming event near you.
- Make calls to voters asking them to sign and return their petition.
Asian American Pacific Islander Hob Nob and Community Resource Fair w/Act Florida
Saturday, August 23rd 2:30pm-4:30pm EST
Orlando
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Solidarity Garage Sale w/Florida Access Network
Saturday, August 23rd at 5:00pm EST
Sunrise
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Central Florida Table Talks (Virtual): Let’s Talk About Abortion w/Planned Parenthood
Tuesday, August 26th at 6:00pm EST
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WTF Just Happened to Sex Ed w/EducateUs
Tuesday, August 26th at 7:00pm EST
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The People’s Legislative Forum w/Digital Democracy Project
Wednesday, August 27th 7:00pm-8:00pm EST
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Repro Kit Packing Party w/Florida Access Network
Saturday, August 30th 10:30am-12:30pm EST
Orlando
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Guest Presentation: Realities of Florida’s Abortion Ban w/Dr. Humphrey
Monday, September 15th 1:00pm-2:00pm EST
Click here to register for the Zoom. (Please do not share on social media)
Let’s Talk About Abortion Pills w/National Women’s Liberation
Wednesday, September 17th 6:30pm-8:00pm EST
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Author Rebecca Grant in Conversation with Diane Roberts w/RBG Fund
Monday, September 29th at 7:00pm
Start reading Rebecca’s book, Access: Inside the Abortion Underground and the Sixty-Year Battle for Reproductive Freedom, now to be ready for this virtual discussion.
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News Roundup
Florida
Florida sees 37.6 percent drop in abortions performed from this time last year
Staff Report, News Service of Florida
The number of abortions reported in Florida during the first seven months of 2025 was about 37.6 percent lower than during the same period in 2024, according to new data posted on the state Agency for Health Care Administration website.
Ad campaign touting availability of abortion pills taking place this month along Pinellas beaches
By Mitch Perry, Florida Phoenix
Abortion pills are safe, FDA-approved, and accessible by mail in Florida.
Extreme heat is increasing health risks for pregnant Floridians
By Jessica Meszaros, WUSF Tampa
Christina Duarte, 43, is cheerful with long brown hair. She’s glowing at more than six months pregnant with her eighth child.
Despite federal shift, state health officials encourage COVID vaccines for pregnant women
By Nada Hassanein, Florida Phoenix
Heading into the respiratory illness season, states and clinicians are working to encourage pregnant patients to get COVID-19 vaccinations, even though the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services no longer recommends that they should.
Doulas on the front lines of climate resilience
By Mireille Louis Charles and Sheena Mathai, The Invading Sea
In July, devastating floods tore through Kerr County, Texas, killing more than 130 people and crippling critical infrastructure — health care, transportation, electricity.
National
Anti-Abortion Playbook, Flipped: Arkansas Abortion Fund Opens Its Own “Crisis Pregnancy Center”
By Laura C. Morel, Mother Jones
For nine years, Karen Musick stood outside the Little Rock Family Planning Services clinic in Arkansas, protecting women arriving for their abortion appointments from anti-abortion protesters who regularly gathered there.
As Trump Weighs I.V.F., Republicans Back New ‘Natural’ Approach to Infertility
By Caroline Kitchener, New York Times
Less than two weeks after an Alabama Supreme Court decision upended in vitro fertilization in the state and prompted a national backlash, over 100 conservative congressional staff members and I.V.F. skeptics crammed into a meeting room a few blocks from the U.S. Capitol.
Costco won’t be selling abortion pills. Here’s why that matters.
By Susan Rinkunas, MSNBC
On Thursday, Costco said it would not begin stocking the abortion medication mifepristone at its more than 500 pharmacies, and conservative groups declared victory following a yearlong pressure campaign.
The States Where It’s Riskier to Have a Baby
By Olga Khazan, The Atlantic
After Kaitlyn Kash delivered her baby daughter at Austin’s Ascension Seton Medical Center in July 2023, she began hemorrhaging.
Vigil held for two Georgia women whose deaths were tied to abortion restrictions
By Akilah Winters, 11 Alive Atlanta
Family members and community leaders gathered Tuesday for a vigil to honor the lives of two Georgia women whose deaths were tied to the state’s strict abortion laws.
Why Conservatives Really Want to Defund Planned Parenthood (audio)
By Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo, Rewire
In this episode of Boom! Lawyered Summer Session, Imani and Jess dig into the Republican efforts to strip federal funding from Planned Parenthood clinics and explain how it fits with their larger attacks on health care and Medicaid.