Medication Abortion Access in Flux
Just hours after this newsletter hit your inbox last week, access to medication abortion in the United States shifted. By Monday, it shifted again. By next week, it may change again.
Let’s be clear: people across the United States have turned to medication abortion through telehealth as a trusted, safe, and effective method of care for years. The attacks we’re seeing now are entirely based in politics, not science, and could have a sweeping effect on abortion care, miscarriage management, and emergency treatment.
As we wait to see what the Supreme Court will do next, here’s what folks need to remember:
- People who need abortions, regardless of where they live, still have options:
- Patients are using ineedana.com to find clinics near them.
- People across the world have read information about self-managed abortion and abortion pills by mail from resources like PlanCPills.org, which isn’t going anywhere.
- The Repro Legal Helpline is available for people to understand their legal options and risk, regardless of where they live.
- Politicians and judges have no place in families’ personal medical decisions around pregnancy.
- Medication abortion care is a safe, effective, FDA-approved option for ending a pregnancy and is used for more than 60% of abortions in the United States. It has a 20+-year track record and hundreds of studies showing its safety.
Remember, when changes to abortion access hit the news, it causes immense confusion and panic for patients who need care right now. It is our responsibility to counter that with the facts and resources our communities need.
Events & Volunteer Opportunities
Community Vote By Mail Postcarding
w/Greater Orlando NOW
Saturday, May 9th, 12:00pm – 5:00pm
Quaker Meeting House, Orlando
May Diaper Packing Party
w/Florida Access Network (FAN)
Sunday, May 10th, 11:00am – 1:00pm
A Mother’s Day Conversation on Black Maternal Health Equity (Webinar)
Monday, May 11th at 11:30am
An evening exploring Liberating Abortion, with author Renee Bracey Sherman
w/Tampa Bay Abortion Fund
Monday, May 11th, 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Black English Bookstore, Tampa
AAC Review-A-Thon!/Reseñatón de Clinicas Falsas
w/National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice
Wednesday, May 13th at 1:00pm & Wednesday, May 20th at 7:30pm
Unmuted: Storytelling for Liberating Abortion
w/Emergency Medical Assistance (EMA) and author Renee Bracey Sherman
Wednesday, May 13th, 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Garden District Taproom, West Palm Beach
Motherhood Under State Control
w/ACLU Florida
Thursday, May 14th, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Orlando
Orlando “I’m For Planned Parenthood” Community Canvass
w/Planned Parenthood Florida
Saturday, May 16th, 10:00am – 12:00pm
Orlando (RSVP for Exact Location)
Karaoke + Movie Night!
w/TBAFund
Saturday, May 16th, 6:30pm – 10:00pm
Corner Club in Tampa
Nonviolent Communication and De-Escalation
w/ReproAction
Wednesday, May 27th at 1:00pm
Orlando-Midterm Election Year & Volunteer Recruitment Event
w/Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Orlando
Friday, May 22nd, 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Orlando, FL
Training Southern 2026
w/Abortion Access Now
May 29th-May 31st, 2026
Raleigh, NC
All expenses covered!
Registration Deadline: May 13, 2026.
News Roundup
Florida
By Romy Ellenbogen, Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau
By Elena Barrera, Tallahassee Democrat
By Keitha Nelson, First Coast News
By Cindy Krischer Goodman, South Florida Sun Sentinel
By Jacob Ogles, Florida Politics
By Mary Ziegler, State Court Report
By Selene San Felice, Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
National
By Mark Sherman and Geoff Mulvihill, Associated Press
By Kelcie Moseley-Morris and Sofia Resnick, States Newsroom
By Jessica Valenti and Kylie Cheung, Abortion, Every Day
By Cody McDevitt, Rewire