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Blue-state doctors launch abortion pill pipeline into states with bans

Caroline Kitchener

July 19, 2023 |

The Washington Post |

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Response Location: United States

Europe-based Aid Access is now allowing U.S. medical professionals in certain democrat-led states with abortion “shield” laws to prescribe and mail abortion pills to patients in anti-abortion states. There are currently seven U.S. providers working with Aid Access under the protection of their state’s shield laws and have since mailed 3,500 doses of abortion pills to those in need.

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In Texas, a rare program offers hope for some of the most vulnerable women and babies

Katia Riddle

June 28, 2023 |

NPR |

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Response Location: United States, San Antonio, Texas

Casa Mía provides housing and support services for pregnant women and new mothers struggling with addiction. The program is run out of an old house and is currently home to nine women. Staff at Casa Mía provide mental health care, recovery resources and work to destigmatize substance abuse to prevent mothers from losing their children to the foster care system.

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Burner phones, aliases, code words: How secret networks help women circumvent Honduras' abortion ban

María Verza Ginnette Riquelme

May 20, 2023 |

Associated Press |

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Response Location: Honduras, Tegucigalpa

Amidst abortion bans, secret networks of volunteers are working to provide those living in areas with strict abortion bans access to abortion pills to ensure safe access to abortion through burner phones, aliases, code words and helplines. Activists ensure those in need get the medication they need at an affordable price, while maintaining confidentiality.

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Reclaiming Safe Abortion Access in Haiti

Jade Prévost-Manuel

April 17, 2023 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Response Location: Haiti, Port Au Prince

Nègès Mawon works to empower women to fight back against violence and oppression through education and advocacy and focuses on access to safe abortion care. Through the organization’s sponsorship program, women who are also survivors of gender-based violence are partnering together to rise above the patriarchal system and advocate for themselves. Since last May, Nègès Mawon has supported more than 300 survivors of gender-based violence through the sponsorship program.

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Two countries, two different approaches to population programs

Sandhya Raman Sawitree Wongketjai

February 22, 2023 |

Roll Call |

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Response Location: Thailand, Bangkok

The Population and Community Development Association was established in 1974 to promote family planning and has since partnered with the local government and other groups to provide family planning services, and resources, like condoms and birth control, as well as education. Widespread promotion and availability of contraceptives thanks to the group has led the uptake among women of reproductive age to go from about 17% in 1970 to 75% in 2022 — as well as a reduction in fertility rates, all of which helps to control the overall population.

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Mississippi Evangelicals Prepare to Welcome Dobbs Babies

Adam MacInnis

February 13, 2023 |

Christianity Today |

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Response Location: United States, Mississippi

Embrace Grace is a 12-week program that supports single parents and women facing unplanned pregnancies and works to coach churches to be more accepting and open their doors and their hearts to those in need, specifically in the wake of the Dobbs. V. Jackson and Roe v. Wade overturn. There are currently about 20 churches across the state involved in the program.

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Many ERs offer minimal care for miscarriage. One group wants that to change

Patrick Adams

January 04, 2023 |

NPR |

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Response Location: United States, Indianapolis, Indiana

TEAMM Project — short for Training, Education and Advocacy in Miscarriage Management — is a nonprofit that hosts workshops for healthcare providers in more than 100 sites in 19 states on everything they need to know about miscarriage care. Miscarriage care is often lacking in emergency rooms, which can be dangerous for the person having a miscarriage. To remedy this, TEAMM Project educates and advocates for the use of manual vacuum aspiration kits, training providers on how to use them.

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In North Carolina, more people are training to support patients through an abortion

Claire Donnelly

December 19, 2022 |

NPR |

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Response Location: United States, North Carolina

Abortion doulas are like traditional birth doulas and provide advice and emotional support to people navigating an abortion. Every three months the Carolina Abortion Fund offers free online classes for aspiring abortion doulas. These sessions used to have 20 signups at most, but now — following the overturn of Roe v. Wade — have 40.

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The South isn't so anti-abortion after all. Kentucky proved it at the polls.

Arwen Donahue Phoebe Wagoner

December 14, 2022 |

Scalawag |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Kentucky

Ahead of a vote on a ballot measure that would have ensured that no right to abortion could ever be added to Kentucky's constitution, pro-choice activists connected with voters via protests and door-knocking campaigns. Their efforts focused on registering new voters and exploring the nuances of reproductive health care, and the amendment was successfully defeated by a margin of nearly 5 percentage points.

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This Group Wants to Teach You How to Get Abortions Even Where They're Banned

Charlotte Alter

December 09, 2022 |

Time Magazine |

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Response Location: United States, Oregon

Mayday Health is a health-education nonprofit that helps patients in states that have banned abortion figure out how to get abortions anyway. For people living in states where abortion is banned, Mayday provides step-by-step instructions for how to obtain abortion pills, as well as medical information about the safety and reliability of medication abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy.

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