Resources

The Abortion Care Network – ACN supports abortion care providers to ensure they are able to provide exceptional care to the individuals, families and communities they serve.

Abortion Clinics On-Line – ACOL is a directory service comprised of websites of over 400 providers of abortion services and other reproductive healthcare.

The Abortion Conversation Project Committed to eliminating the stigma of abortion by creating new ways and opportunities to talk about abortion honestly and publicly.

Access Women’s Health Rights Coalition – ACCESS exists to make reproductive health and freedom a concrete reality for all women. Their programs bridge the gaps between reproductive rights and the reality of access to reproductive health care.

Alan Guttmacher Institute  AGI is a nonprofit organization focused on sexual and reproductive health research, policy analysis and public education.

All* Above All  All* Above All unites organizations and individuals to build support for lifting the bans that deny abortion coverage.Their vision is to restore public insurance coverage so that every woman, however much she makes, can get affordable, safe abortion care when she needs it.

American Civil Liberties Union – Through litigation, advocacy, and public education, the ACLU aims to protect access to the full spectrum of reproductive health care, from sexuality education and family planning services, to prenatal care and childbearing assistance, to abortion counseling and services.

American Medical Women’s Association – AMWA is an organization that functions at the local, national, and international level to advance women in medicine and improve women’s health. We achieve this by providing and developing leadership, advocacy, education, expertise, mentoring, and strategic alliances.

American Society for Reproductive Medicine  ASRM is a multidisciplinary organization for the advancement of the art, science, and practice of reproductive medicine. The Society accomplishes its mission through the pursuit of excellence in education and research and through advocacy on behalf of patients, physicians, and affiliated health care providers.

Association of Reproductive Health Professionals ARHP members and staff are committed to keeping patients informed about reproductive options, to supporting the science that informs the advocacy community and to bringing together reproductive health community partners on timely issues.

Black Women’s Health Imperative  BWHI’s mission is to promote optimum health for Black women across the life span physically, mentally and spiritually.

Catholics for Choice – CFFC is engaged in research, policy analysis, education and advocates on issues of gender equality and reproductive health.

Center for Reproductive Rights (Formerly the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy <CRLP>) – CRR is a non-profit legal advocacy organization dedicated to promoting and defending women’s reproductive rights worldwide.

The Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program CLPP is a reproductive rights organization that trains, educates, and inspires new leaders, organizers, and supporters nationwide.

Engender Health – Engender Health is an international nonprofit organization that has been working for 60 years to make reproductive health services safe, available, and sustainable for women and men worldwide.

Feminist – Feminist.com is a ten-year-old activist community and portal of resources and information that supports women’s equality, justice, wellness and safety. The Feminist.com web site was founded to initiate and facilitate grassroots mobilization, networking and communication around important political, health and educational issues related to women. Their web site is dedicated to promoting and sustaining women’s well being through the principles embodied in their motto: “Awareness, Education, Activism and Empowerment”.

Feminist Campus – The world’s largest pro-choice student network. FeministCampus.org is a community where you don’t have to waste time defending your pro-choice position or your feminism. You can get right down to the good stuff – sharing ideas, experiences and strategies.

Feminist Majority Foundation – FMF utilizes research and action to empower women economically, socially, and politically. Their organization believes that feminists – both women and men, girls and boys – are the majority, but this majority must be empowered.

Feminist Women’s Health Center – Feminist Women’s Health Center is a social change organization dedicated to women’s reproductive freedom, health and equality. We combine direct services (abortion, birth control, reproductive healthcare), with activism (to preserve and expand access to choice and to strengthen the pro-choice movement) and community education (to demystify health information and empower women’s health choices.)

Ibis Reproductive Health – Ibis’s goal is to produce stronger consumers of reproductive health products, services, and policies, along with more responsive health personnel and systems. We hope to increase the reproductive health choices open to women, and to enhance women’s autonomy in exercising these choices.

International Planned Parenthood Federation – Through their Member Associations and partners IPPF works around the world in over 180 countries, providing sexual and reproductive health information and services.

Ipas – Ipas has worked for three decades to increase women’s ability to exercise their sexual and reproductive rights and to reduce deaths and injuries of women from unsafe abortion. Ipas’s global and country programs include training, research, advocacy, distribution of equipment and supplies for reproductive-health care, and information dissemination.

International Women’s Health Coalition – IWHC works to generate health and population policies, programs, and funding that promote and protect the rights and health of girls and women worldwide, particularly in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and countries in post-socialist transition. The IWHC is committed to these critical themes: Adolescent Health & Rights; Sexual Rights; and Access to Safe Abortion.

Kaiser Family Foundation – Kaiser Family Foundation is an independent, national health philanthropy dedicated to providing information and analysis on health issues to policy makers, the media and the general public.

Marie Stopes International – The Marie Stopes International Global Partnership provides sexual and reproductive health information and services to 4.3 million people worldwide in 39 countries.

Medical Students for Choice – MSFC is dedicated to ensuring that women receive the full range of reproductive healthcare choices.

MergerWatch – MergerWatch works directly with community coalitions across the nation to protect hospital-based services that are threatened by proposed business partnerships between nonsectarian community hospitals and religiously sponsored health systems. We seek to preserve patients’ access to threatened services at the historically nonsectarian facilities through such means as public education, community organizing and regulatory intervention.

NARAL Pro-Choice America “ National Abortion Rights Action League works to support and protect a woman’s freedom to make personal decisions regarding the full range of reproductive choices through education, training, organizing, legal action and public policy.

National Abortion Federation – NAF is the professional association of abortion providers in the United States. We believe that women should be trusted to make private medical decisions in consultation with their health care providers. NAF currently offers quality training and services to abortion providers and unbiased information and referral services to women.

National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum – NAPAWF is a community of Asian American/Pacific Islander women who are dedicated to advocating for the advancement and wellness of AAPI women in the US through the provision of multi-issue resources and a robust support network.

National Council of Jewish Women – NCJW supports the protection of every woman’s right to reproductive choice, including safe and legal abortion, and the elimination of obstacles that limit reproductive freedom. For decades, NCJW has advocated for abortion rights and access to the full range of family planning options in this country and internationally.

National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association – NFPRHA represents virtually the entire domestic family planning field, including clinicians, administrators, researchers, educators, advocates and consumers.

National Health Law Program – The National Health Law Program is a national public interest law firm that seeks to improve health care for America’s working and unemployed poor, minorities, the elderly and people with disabilities.

National Institute for Reproductive Health – NIRH builds power at the state and local level to change public policy, galvanize public support, and normalize women’s decisions about abortion and contraception.

National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health – The mission of NLIRH is to ensure the fundamental human right to reproductive health for Latinas, their families and their communities through public education, policy advocacy, and community mobilization.

National Network of Abortion Funds NNAF facilitates networking and provides mutual support for existing funds, provides support for the creation of new abortion funds in unserved areas, explores new ways to meet the immediate funding needs of women, advocates on the national level on issues of access to abortion, reproductive freedom and healthcare, with a special emphasis on funding.

National Organization for Women – NOW’s goal is to take action to bring about equality for all women.

National Partnership for Women & Families – National Partnership works to promote fairness in the workplace, access to quality affordable healthcare, and policies that help women meet the dual demands of work and family.

National Women’s Health Network  NWHN improves the health of all women by developing and promoting a critical analysis of health issues in order to affect policy and support consumer decision-making. The Network aspires to a health care system that is guided by social justice and reflects the needs of diverse women.

National Women’s Law Center – For more than three decades, NWLC has worked to advance and protect women’s health and reproductive rights especially on behalf of low-income women, women of color, and other women who face additional barriers to health care access.

Pacific Institute for Women’s Health  PIWH works to guarantee access to safe reproductive technology and abortion, improve protection against STIs and HIV, and eliminate gender-based violations of human rights. PIWH conducts action research, education and advocacy in collaboration with activists, scholars, policy-makers and health providers to strengthen grassroots organizations and promote change around the world.

People for the American Way  PFAW is an energetic advocate for the values and institutions that sustain a diverse democratic society. Many of these are now threatened by the influence of the radical right and its allies who have risen to positions of political power. Our most fundamental rights and freedoms-and even our basic constitutional framework-are at risk. PFAW works in close collaboration with other leading national and state progressive organizations to mobilize Americans at this defining moment in our history.

Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health – PRCH works to enable concerned physicians to take a more active and visible role in support of universal reproductive health.

Planned Parenthood – PPFA is the world’s largest voluntary reproductive health care organization. PPFA offers extensive information on all aspects of sexual and reproductive health.

Planned Parenthood Empire State Acts – PPESA defends reproductive rights and promotes progressive family planning policies in New York State through political advocacy. They work in Albany, and across the state with our elected officials, policy makers, and other state and federal agencies.

Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic – PPHP has 14 medical centers in Suffolk, Westchester, Rockland and Putnam Counties (New York). One of 132 Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) affiliates in the United States, PPHP provides confidential, quality medical services, and counseling and accurate information on family planning, contraception, and reproductive health.

Political Research Associates (Public Eye) PRA works to facilitate public understanding of the threat posed to human rights by oppressive and authoritarian right-wing movements in the United States. Founded in 1981, we are the premier national organization studying the full spectrum of the US Political Right – from ultraconservatives in the electoral arena to paramilitary organizations to supremacist groups.

Population Action International PAI is an independent policy advocacy group working to strengthen public awareness and political and financial support worldwide for population programs grounded in individual rights.

Power of Choice Project – Power of Choice Project is a group of concerned citizens who share the goal of activating supporters of reproductive freedom and educating the public through film.

Pro-Choice Public Education Project – PPEP’s mission is to educate young women ages 16-25 about reproductive freedom and choice, thereby developing a new generation of pro-choice leaders and supporters.

Provide – Provide is a nonprofit that works in partnership with health and social service providers to build a health system that is equipped to respond to women’s health care needs around unintended pregnancy and abortion.

Refuse & Resist – Refuse & Resist is the organization for everyone who refuses to go along with today’s national agenda of repression and cruelty, poverty and punishment.

Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice – RCRC was founded in 1973 to safeguard the newly won constitutional right to abortion.

Reproductive Health Access Project  RHAP is dedicated to expanding access to high quality, comprehensive reproductive health services in primary care settings.

Reproductive Health Technologies Project – The mission of the RHTP is to advance the ability of every woman to achieve full reproductive freedom with access to the safest, most effective, and preferred methods for controlling her fertility and protecting her health.

Republican Majority for Choice – RMC supports the protection of Roe v. Wade and wants to ensure that the right to choose is personal and NOT political.

Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States – SIECUS affirms that sexuality is a fundamental part of being human, one that is worthy of dignity and respect. We advocate for the right of all people to accurate information, comprehensive education about sexuality, and sexual health services. SIECUS works to create a world that ensures social justice and sexual rights.

Southern Poverty Law Center – Throughout its history, the Center has worked to make the nation’s Constitutional ideals a reality. The Center’s fights all forms of discrimination and works to protect society’s most vulnerable members, handling innovative cases that few lawyers are willing to take. Over three decades, it has achieved significant legal victories, including landmark Supreme Court decisions and crushing jury verdicts against hate groups.

Unite for Reproductive and Gender Equity  URGE envisions a world where all people have agency over their own bodies and relationships, and the power, knowledge, and tools to exercise that agency. URGE builds this vision by engaging young people in creating and leading the way to sexual and reproductive justice for all by providing training, field mobilization, and national leadership for a youth-driven agenda.

United Nations Population Fund UNFPA is an international development agency that promotes the right of every woman, man and child to enjoy a life of health and equal opportunity. UNFPA supports countries in using population data for policies and programs to reduce poverty and to ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe, every young person is free of HIV/AIDS, and every girl and woman is treated with dignity and respect.

Vote Smart VS is comprised of volunteers working together, spending endless hours researching the backgrounds and records of thousands of political candidates and elected officials to discover their voting records, campaign contributions, public statements, biographical data (including their work history) and evaluations of them generated by over 100 competing special interest groups. Every election these volunteers test each candidate’s willingness to provide citizens with their positions on the issues they will most likely face if elected through the National Political Awareness Test (NPAT).

World Health Organization – WHO’s objective is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. Health is defined in WHO’s Constitution as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

Women On Waves – Women on Waves operates a mobile clinic on a ship that sails to countries where abortion is illegal.

Women’s Law Project – WLP is a nonprofit public interest legal advocacy organization that seeks to advance the legal, social, and economic status of women through litigation, public policy advocacy, public education, and individual counseling.

Women’s Reproductive Rights Assistance Program – WRRAP raises money for low-income women of all ages, ethnicities and cultural backgrounds who are unable to pay for either emergency contraception or a safe and legal abortion. Their services are provided free of charge to clinics all over this nation.

Young Women’s Christian Association – The YWCA who strives to create opportunities for women’s growth, leadership, and power in order to attain a common vision: peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all people.