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your work is enough
you are needed
your work is sacred
you are here
and I am grateful.”
Events & Volunteer Opportunities
Diaper Packing Party w/Florida Access Network and Partners
Sunday, September 14th at 2:00pm EST
Orlando
RSVP to volunteer here.
What Happened to our Hospitals? w/Florida Voices for Health
Monday, September 15th at 6:00pm-8:00pm EST
Lake City
RSVP here to attend.
Abortion Storytelling 101 w/With Testify
Tuesday, September 16th at 6:00pm EST
This training is specific to people who have had abortions.
Click here to register for the Zoom training.
Plan C Virtual Movie Screening & Discussion
Tuesday, September 16th 7:00pm-9:30pm EST
Click here to register for the Zoom.
Abortion Values Messaging Briefing w/National Women’s Law Center
Wednesday, September 17th at 1:00pm EST
Click here to register for the webinar.
Let’s Talk About Abortion Pills w/National Women’s Liberation
Wednesday, September 17th 6:30pm-8:00pm EST
Click here to sign up for the Zoom.
National Assembly w/National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice
Wednesday, September 17th 7:30pm-9:00pm EST
Click here to sign up.
Building Healthy Futures: Palm Beach State Tabling w/Planned Parenthood
Thursday, September 18th 9:00am-11:00am EST
Palm Beach State College
Click here to sign up to volunteer.
Menopause, a Free Virtual Workshop w/Planned Parenthood
Wednesday, September 24th 10:00am-11:00am EST
RSVP here.
Policing Pregnancy w/Pregnancy Justice
Thursday, September 25th at 3:00pm EST
Click here to sign up for the webinar.
Supporting Queen & Trans Folks through Abortion Experiences w/Exhale Pro-Voice
Friday, September 26th at 12:00pm-1:30pm EST
Click here to register.
Tacos y Lotería w/EMA Abortion Fund
Sunday, September 28th 3:00pm-6:00pm EST
West Palm Beach
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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.
Click here to register.
Support the Medicaid Expansion Campaign – It needs all hands on deck to qualify for the ballot!
- 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.
News Roundup
Florid
Florida flunks sex ed in national report
By Danielle Prieur, Central Florida Public Media
A national nonprofit has flunked Florida when it comes to sex education for K-12 students.
Florida’s Anti-Vax Misogyny and Trump’s Hypocrisy
By Steven Harper, Common Dreams
On September 3, Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo made news again.
Appeals court upholds Florida law restricting non-citizens from collecting petitions
By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida
Saying the restrictions don’t implicate speech, a sharply divided appeals-court panel has put on hold a judge’s ruling that blocked parts of a law prohibiting non-Florida residents and non-U.S. citizens from collecting signatures for ballot proposals.
North Central Florida congresswoman Kat Cammack supports bill to expand prenatal screenings
Staff Report, WCJB Gainesville
North Central Florida congresswoman Kat Cammack is supporting a bipartisan bill she says will help pregnant women.
National
Appeals court allows Trump’s administration to block Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood
Staff Report, Associated Press
A U.S. appeals court panel on Thursday allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to block Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood while legal challenges continue.
By Jeanna Smialek, Stephanie Nolen, and Edward Wong, NY Times
Contraceptives bought by U.S.A.I.D. have been in limbo in a Belgian warehouse. The U.S. government said the products were destroyed, but local authorities found them.
Abortion may prove a landmine in ACA subsidy push
By Peter Sullivan, Axios
Abortion politics are colliding with ongoing efforts in Congress to extend enhanced subsidies for Affordable Care Act coverage.
Attacks on Shield Laws Are the Next Step in Criminalizing Abortion Care
By Anna Bernstein, Kimya Forouzan, and Emma Stoskopf-Ehrlich, Guttmacher Institute
After overturning Roe v. Wade and imposing total abortion bans currently in 12 states, anti-abortion politicians have now set their sights on shield laws—a critical innovation that has helped preserve some measure of access to reproductive health care across the United States.
States Heading Toward Constitutional Showdown Over Abortion Shield Laws
By Pam Belluck, New York Times
America’s battle over abortion has entered an intense phase of legal maneuvering over a deeply fraught issue of states’ rights: Whether states must honor one another’s abortion laws.
Texas’ medication abortion ban could achieve a top conservative goal
By Shefali Luthra, The 19th
The passage of a major bill in Texas threatens the national safety net that has allowed tens of thousands of Americans to get around abortion bans.
NY attorney general will intervene in Texas abortion pill access lawsuit
By Alex Nguyen, States Newsroom
New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday said she will intervene in a legal fight over Texas’ ban on abortion pills, escalating a national showdown between states that have restricted abortion access and others that are defending practitioners who offer services to out-of-state women.
Abortion Bans Can Make Birth Control A Tricky Topic for Medical Providers—Study
By Yasaman Zia, Rewire
Analysis: Contraception is increasingly in demand post-Roe, especially long-acting methods like the IUD and emergency contraception like Plan B.
Pregnant people already had few options for pain. Doctors worry about ripple effects of RFK Jr. linking Tylenol to autism
By Shefali Luthra and Barbara Rodriguez, The 19th
The federal government’s reported plans to link pregnant people’s use of acetaminophen — the pain-relief drug sold under the brand name Tylenol — as a cause of autism could worsen their health and stigmatize one of the few treatments pregnant people have for reducing pain and fever, doctors warn.
Who Gets a Third-Trimester Abortion and Why? Doctor’s New Book Unpacks Politicized Procedure
By Rachel Somerstein, Rewire News Group
Third-trimester abortions are a frequent target of anti-abortion activists. Yet abortions that occur at 28 weeks and beyond are rare.
Telehealth Abortion Could End Up in Front of The Supreme Court With This Latest Move
By Shefali Luthra, The 19th
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced on Sept. 8 that she will defend her state’s abortion protections in a lawsuit brought by the state of Texas.