May 30th, 2012

Sharing your hopes and dreams for the future

"Abortion is about women's hopes and dreams. Abortion is a matter of survival for women." - George Tiller, M.D., 1941-2009

Thursday, May 31st is the third anniversary of Dr. George Tiller’s murder in Wichita, Kansas. It is a somber day, a day of reflection. Dr. Tiller risked his life for women because he knew that it’s not just about abortion. 

It's about self-detemination.
It's about treating women with dignity.
It's about control over our own bodies.

These should not be privileges. Every woman deserves the opportunity to determine the path of her own life, and no woman is less deserving of that simply because she has less money. 

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Categories: abortion providers, Funds, George Tiller Memorial Fund

September 7th, 2011

Do Idaho's abortion laws discriminate against the poor?

Jennie Linn McCormack is a mother of three living on less than $250 a month in southeastern Idaho, hundreds of miles from the nearest abortion provider. Arrested for terminating a pregnancy with pills she bought online last year, now she's fighting back: she has filed a lawsuit saying that Idaho's 1972 law against self-induced abortion discriminates against low-income women who are left with no other options.

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Categories: abortion providers, abortion restrictions, economic justice, unfair laws

January 25th, 2011

The Hyde Amendment, poor women, and unsafe abortion

Last week an unlicensed practitioner performing abortions in one of the poorest neighborhoods of Philadelphia was arrested and charged with the murder of seven infants and one woman who died in his custody.

As details come to light, we at the National Network of Abortion Funds are horrified at the news, and I wanted to let you know where we stand on this situation.

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Categories: abortion providers, Funds, Hyde Amendment, Medicaid, TakeAction, unfair laws

December 22nd, 2010

Recognition and love for heroic acts of 2010!

Thank you to RH Reality Check for putting together one of the best end-of-year lists out there--it's not a contest, but an arena for some well-deserved recognition and love for many of 2010's most passionate and righteous activists who work hard every day to create real change and "promote sexual and reproductive justice, environmental justice, women's human rights and the rights of LGBT persons."

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Categories: abortion providers, abortion restrictions, economic justice, Funds, health care reform, Hyde Amendment, Medicaid, unfair laws

December 2nd, 2010

Join abortion fund Women's Medical Fund in Philly for two special forums!

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Categories: abortion providers, Funds, health care reform

November 10th, 2010

Dr. Carhart to open three new clinics

[Photo: The Chicago Abortion Fund poses with Dr. Carhart during their trip to defend his clinic.]

Dr. Carhart refuses to allow a new restrictive law in Nebraska to stop him from serving women. 

In late October, a new Nebraska law took effect which bans abortion after 20 weeks.  As a result, Dr. Carhart will be opening two new clinics in Iowa and Maryland and will expand an exisiting clinic in Indiana.

Read the newspaper account.

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Categories: abortion providers, abortion restrictions