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Topic: Reproductive Health

$380,000 to 6 Organizations Advancing Reproductive Justice

Photo: Puerto Rico Transgender Wellness Center WDN’s Abortion Bridge Collaborative (ABC) Fund supports organizations that center reproductive justice in their mission, values, and work as they navigate this new rapidly changing landscape. Using an open, grantee-centered nominations network our Grantmaking Advisory Council seeks out organizations that: Respond to the moment by meeting immediate needs or critical gaps in the existing abortion access ecosystem or by building needed foundational structures.
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The ABC Fund One Year After Dobbs

One year after the Dobbs decision, a patchwork of laws and an uncertain future for abortion access continue to characterize post-Roe America. Service providers, movement leaders, and abortion defenders on the frontlines continue to push back against restrictive policies to deliver abortion care, defend abortion access, and advance reproductive justice nationwide.
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We Just Directed $2.4M to 27 Movement Organizations

In our most recent round of grants, we sent $2.4M to 27 organizations dedicated to creating safer, healthier, and more just communities for all. This latest round of support maintains our commitment to existing partnerships, explores new catalytic opportunities, and meaningfully backs a wide ecosystem of change-builders.
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As Reproductive Justice Organizations Chart Stormy Waters, ABC Sends $320K to the Field

Today, patients who need an abortion must face a rapidly changing and complex legal landscape and potentially juggle high costs and extensive travel just to obtain basic health care. Providers must operate amidst constantly shifting laws, and states with access are overwhelmed with patients in need of care.
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Texas Ruling & What You Can Do

Graphic: @liberaljanee Since Roe v. Wade ended, much of the battle over legal abortion has focused on access to medication abortion pills. Opponents of abortion have long wanted to block the use of mifepristone not only in states with abortion bans but also nationwide.
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ABC Funds the First Women of Color-Led, Employee-Owned Abortion Clinic in the U.S.

Photo: Annie Spratt / Unsplash Valley Abortion Group (VAG) is a women of color-led group of local providers opening a clinic in Albuquerque, New Mexico that will focus on providing patient-centered abortion care later in pregnancy. Providing Abortion Care in Late Stage Alaska, New Jersey, New Mexico, Colorado, Vermont, and Oregon are the six states where abortion is technically legal at any point in pregnancy – plus the District of Columbia.
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“We Can’t Go Away” Alabama Clinic Continues to Provide Critical Care Post-Roe

Photo: West Alabama Women’s Center, the day they re-opened after the passage of Dobbs. There haven’t been any active abortion clinics in Alabama since June 24, 2022. Alabama is a trigger state so a near-total abortion ban went into effect hours after the reversal of Roe v.
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Funding Where Democracy-Building, Grassroots Power, and Reproductive Rights Intersect

How do we continue sustaining long-term strategies and capacity-building while meeting the needs of the moment? In our final funding round for 2022, we granted $300,000 to three organizations at the intersection of civic empowerment, grassroots base-building, and reproductive rights (either because they have a reproductive justice strategy or because they’re building progressive power within a state most impacted by abortion restrictions).
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Abortion Bridge Collaborative Sends $1.21M to the Repro Movement

Image: Manny Becerra / Unsplash Resourcing the Right People, Funding the Right Solutions The Abortion Bridge Collaborative (ABC) Fund sent out $1.21M to the reproductive health and justice landscape in our latest round of grantmaking. To date, this brings our grants to $2.6M.
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Photo of several people standing in front of a building. They hold signs that say, among other things, "I love someone who had an abortion. #MyRightMyDecision"

Abortion Bridge Collaborative Announces Grantees

Image credit: We Testify Resourcing the Right People, Funding the Right Solutions With the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the Abortion Bridge Collaborative Fund was created to ensure enduring access to abortion care across the United States, move money rapidly to build critical and emergent infrastructure, and protect and advance reproductive justice.
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