December 21st, 2010

Make a gift for abortion access today and double your donation!

As our website excitedly proclaims, a generous donor and long-time friend to the National Network of Abortion Funds has agreed to match your gift dollar for dollar until December 31st.  

This is an incredible opportunity to have double the impact with your generous gift.  But, I also want to take a moment to tell you a bit more about what your gift really means to thousands of women across the country.

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December 16th, 2010

Double Your Gift!

Donate today help us reach our goal of $60,000! Every dollar you give will be matched up to $30,000!!!

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January 27th, 2012

Canada's abortion fund: helping women to access care

On January 28, 1988, the Supreme Court of Canada decriminalized abortion in the case of R. v. Morgentaler.

The Court found the country’s restrictive abortion law unconstitutional because it infringed on a woman’s right to “life, liberty, and security of the person” under Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which was adopted in 1982.

Unlike the United States and most countries, Canada has no operative legislation on abortion.

How did Canada get here?

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Categories: abortion restrictions, Funds, unfair laws, TakeAction

January 22nd, 2012

Keep abortion safe and legal? Yes, and make it accessible and affordable!

Sunday, January 22, 2012 marks the 39th anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade court decision that was to guarantee the Constitutional right to determine whether and when to have children. But on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, let's remember that for 35 of the years that abortion has been legal, low-income women have had to struggle to obtain abortion care because Congress denies funding.

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January 13th, 2012

Trust Women Week

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Categories: economic justice, health care reform, Hyde Amendment, TakeAction

October 25th, 2011

New abortion fund in North Carolina seeks board members!

Want to get involved with on-the-ground work helping women with direct assistance for abortion? Activists in North Carolina are in the process of forming a new abortion fund and they're looking for board members who want to help make sure that all women have access to the abortion care they seek.

Could this be you, or someone you know?

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October 12th, 2011

URGENT: House to vote on bill to ban abortion in insurance plans! CALL TODAY!

UPDATE: H.R. 358 passed on a 251-172 vote on Thursday, October 13, 2011. Thank you so much for all your phone calls and support. We will keep you updated on how to ensure that this bill does not pass the Senate!

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Categories: abortion restrictions, economic justice, health care reform, TakeAction

October 3rd, 2011

Remembering Rosie Jiménez, honoring her life through our work

On October 3, 1977, Rosaura Jiménez died in Texas of an illegal abortion, becoming the first known woman to die because of the Hyde Amendment, which eliminated federal Medicaid funding for abortion.

Congress first adopted the Hyde Amendment on September 30, 1976, but it did not go into effect until August 4, 1977. Within just two months, it had driven a woman to take desperate steps that resulted in her death.

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Categories: abortion restrictions, Hyde Amendment, unfair laws, Medicaid, TakeAction

September 26th, 2011

The Hyde Amendment at 35: lessons for activists

Marlene Gerber Fried, founding president of the National Network of Abortion Funds, looks back at 35 years of the Hyde Amendment. What have we learned? Where do we go from here? (Cross-posted at RH Reality Check.)

The Hyde Amendment turns 35 this month. This provision, prohibiting federal Medicaid coverage of abortion in almost all circumstances, was the beginning of the anti-abortion movement’s post-Roe, all-out effort to ban abortion. It was a gateway bill, opening the door to the flood of restrictions which today constrict a woman’s ability to obtain an abortion, forcing women to “choose” between paying for other basic necessities and having an abortion, and, in too many cases, making abortion impossible. It became the precedent for all other denials of abortion funding, and reinforces our discriminatory, two-tier health care system in which people without financial resources cannot get the care they need.

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Categories: abortion restrictions, economic justice, Funds, Hyde Amendment, immigrants' rights, unfair laws, Medicaid, TakeAction

September 13th, 2011

TAKE ACTION: Senate Committee meeting THIS WEEK!

This April, the House of Representatives balanced the budget on the backs of low-income women in a last-minute backroom deal that abruptly stripped the District of Columbia's ability to use local funds to pay for abortions for poor women. This outrageous new abortion ban overruled the authority of DC's own elected officials, denying Medicaid-eligible women vital reproductive health care and gambling with their lives.

Now the Senate Appropriations Committee is preparing to extend this dangerous ban in the 2012 appropriations bill.

Don't let it happen again!

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Categories: abortion restrictions, economic justice, Funds, health care reform, unfair laws, TakeAction