Resources

Abortion Funds and Practical Support Organizations:

National Network of Abortion Funds: There are many local funds providing assistance to help pay for the costs of abortions. This map provides links to over 80 funds nationally: https://abortionfunds.org/need-abortion/#map

Abortion Access Dashboard: The Abortion Access Dashboard is intended to assist policy makers and the public in understanding changes in abortion access resulting from state-level abortion bans.

The Brigid Alliance: Confidential logisitical and financial support to access abortion care. "Wherever someone needs to get to abortion care in the U.S., we find a way to get them there"  https://brigidalliance.org/

Abortion Bridge Collaborative Fund: This fund has dual purposes: building capacity in targeted areas in which abortion care will continue, and working towards legal access and legal protections in areas where it will not.  https://womendonors.org/funded-projects/abortion-bridge/

MidWest Access Coalition: MAC helps people traveling to, from, and within the Midwest access a safe, legal abortion with support in the following areas: travel coordination and costs, lodging, food, medicine, and emotional support. https://www.midwestaccesscoalition.org/

The Apiary Collective is the organization that practical support groups can lean on to stabilize, scale and grow their operations to reach more people that need abortion care. https://apiaryps.org/

ARC Southeast helps Southerners and their families navigate the pathways to access safe, compassionate, and affordable reproductive care by providing financial and logistical support and building power in our communities through advocacy, education, and leadership development. https://arc-southeast.org/ 

The Abortion Pill (Plan C):

To access a medical abortion in the first trimester, you can go to these organizations' websites to learn about how to access the Abortion Pill.  In the USA, you are legally required to get a prescription from a physician to receive the pills needed to do an abortion medically at home.  However, many women are accessing the information, and the pills, without a prescription, called Self Managed Abortion. 

SASS (Self Managed Abortion, Safe and Supported) provides info on how to use the abortion pill https://abortionpillinfo.org/

 Plan C provides info on how to use the abortion pill https://www.plancpills.org/

Las Libres is a Mexican non-profit which provides abortion pills by mail to those in need, both in Mexico and in the USA. For more information on Las Libres in English, see: https://eltecolote.org/content/en/the-mexican-network-guaranteeing-free-safe-abortions-in-the-u-s-q-a-with-las-libres-veronica-cruz/

Their website, currently only in Spanish is: https://laslibres.org/es/Sobre-Nosotras/

Whole Women's Health can provide legal abortion pills via telemedicine (by video) if you live in, or can travel to: Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Mexico or Virginia.  https://www.wholewomanshealth.com/abortion-care/abortion-medication-by-mail/ 

Women on Waves makes sure that women have access to medical abortion and information through innovative strategies

https://www.womenonwaves.org/en/page/2588/sex-abortion-birth

Trusted Independent Clinics: 

Abortion Care Network: Independent abortion clinics provide the majority of abortion care in the United States, serving three out of every five people who has an abortion. These clinics provide care when and where others do not — operating in the most hostile states and compassionately providing care as pregnancy progresses. The Abortion Care Network provides support and coordination/trainings for independent clinics. https://abortioncarenetwork.org/

Trust Women, Wichita KS.: Abortion is still legal in Kansas! In 2019, the state's highest court ruled that a pregnant person's right to personal autonomy is protected in the Kansas constitution and, in 2022, voters overwhelming opposed a constitutional amendment to remove that protection.  https://trustwomen.org/

Whole Woman's Health: WWH and WWHA (their non-profit) have clinics open in South Bend Indiana, Baltimore MD, Alexandria VA, Bloomington MN, and Charlottesville, VA. https://www.wholewomanshealth.com/donate/

WAWC Health Care (formerly West Alabama Women's Center): Although abortion care is illegal in Alabama, WAWC provides contraceptives, miscarriage care, and gender affirming care and PrEp. They accept MediCaid. https://alabortionclinic.com/clinic-services/