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July 6th, 2011

Chicago Abortion Fund in the News

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Nicole Goss speaks out against the racist billboards that have cropped up in Chicago. Click on the image to watch the news clip in a new window.

Recently, CUNY TV's Independent Sources went to Chicago to talk with reproductive justice leaders from the Chicago Abortion Fund about the community response to the racist, antichoice billboards targeting predominately black and low-income neighborhoods on the South side of Chicago:

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Categories: economic justice, Funds

April 22nd, 2011

When public funding covers abortion: how's that working out?

Massachusetts is one of just 15 states that permits state-subsidized insurance to cover abortion care. It leads the country in insuring its citizens and enacted health care reform in 2006. Theoretically, all women in Massachusetts who need an abortion should be able to get one without delay.

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Categories: economic justice, Funds, health care reform, Medicaid

April 16th, 2011

What's that deafening rumbling sound?

We're heading into the biggest weekend yet for the Bowl-a-Thon as we barrel towards Tax Day--with over a thousand activists signed up to bowl coast to coast, the Second Annual Bowl-a-Thon is striking Hyde nationwide!

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Categories: Bowl-a-Thon , Funds, TakeAction

March 8th, 2011

GOING BALLS OUT for abortion access!

We're lacing up our bowling shoes, getting ready to strike Hyde nationwide, and we want you to join us for the Second Annual National Bowl-a-Thon for Abortion Access! Because when the going gets tough, the tough GO BALLS OUT!

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Categories: Bowl-a-Thon , economic justice, Funds, Hyde Amendment, Medicaid, TakeAction

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

January 7th, 2011

Thanks to you, we met our goal!

Thank you so much to everyone who donated and spread the word about our year-end matching donation!

To the generous donor and long-time friend to the Network who presented a matching gift of $30,000, to everyone who blogged, tweeted, and spread the word, and to all who stretched their budgets at the end of the year to help ensure that women like Leila have the funds to get the abortion they need: THANK YOU. With your help, we raised over $60,000!

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December 30th, 2010

What would you sell?

What would you do if $100 was standing between you and the abortion you needed?

By the time Leila made it to her appointment, she had already spent a few terrified weeks scraping together the money: she had siphoned off the grocery and rent money, borrowed everything she could from her friends, sold her television on Craigslist.

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Categories: Funds, TakeAction