• Dr. Vivian Lewis:
• Hold your lawmakers accountable for their decisions regarding reproductive rights. Know who they are, pick up the phone, and tell them what you think.
• Dr. Jamila Perritt:
• Realize that our liberation is bound together. Abortion, reproductive rights, immigration, the militarization of our cities, all these things are deeply interconnected.
• As an abortion provider, I urge you to donate to abortion funds in your communities.
• Learn more about Physicians for Reproductive Health’s work here
• In particular, check out the Leadership Training Academy
• Karen Thompson:
• Learn more about Pregnancy Justice’s work here (produced by Natalie Jowett of JusticeAid). 
• Sign up for Pregnancy Justice’s newsletter
• If you or those you know live in South Carolina, call your lawmaker and tell them to vote no on Senate Bill 323, which would make abortion a homicide in that state. The vote is coming up on October 1st.
• Donate at justiceaid.org to support Pregnancy Justice, their 2025 grantee partner
• Dr. Jenna Tosh
• Find and support your local Planned Parenthood affiliate here
• Call your member of Congress to make it clear that you support Planned Parenthood and want to see the defund provision reversed.
• ClassACT HR73:
• Be informed. Share the very real health care and medical risks currently facing people who are pregnant and the medical professionals who take care of them. With everything going on in our country right now, we must return focus to this issue.
• Support and volunteer for reproductive justice organizations in your community, such as your local Planned Parenthood, Pregnancy Justice and community based abortion funds that are engaged in the fight for reproductive rights.
• As an example, Planned Parenthood is looking for volunteers to escort patients safely into and out of clinics, especially when protesters are present.
• Share this forum with others around you – it is a powerful tool for education.

ACT NOW - If You Are a Physician:

• Resources for Providers to Prepare for ICE Presence at Health Care Facilities, from Physicians for Reproductive Health 

• 13 Principles for Healthcare Providers to Interrupt Criminalization, from Beyond Do No Harm 

• Explainer: It’s Time to End Test and Report Practices, from Physicians for Reproductive Health

A POST-ROE LANDSCAPE

• After Roe Fell: Abortion Laws by State interactive map, from the Center for Reproductive Rights

• Pre-Dobbs pregnancy criminalization report, Pregnancy Justice 

• Post Dobbs pregnancy criminalization report, Pregnancy Justice 

• Medication Abortion Accounted for 63% of All US Abortions in 2023—An Increase from 53% in 2020, guttmacher

THE PERSONAL EFFECT OF REPRODUCTIVE CRIMINALIZATION

• Settlement Reached in Civil Rights Lawsuit for Woman Who Gave Birth Without Medical Help in Alabama Jail, from Pregnancy Justice

• Investigating the controversial practice of drug testing pregnant patients in hospitals, CBS Sunday Mornings Report 

• More pregnant women face life-threatening sepsis in wake of strict abortion laws, PBS News Hour 

• Texas Judge Fines New York Doctor and Orders Her to Stop Sending Abortion Pills to Texas, The New York Times 

• Texas' Newest Abortion Restriction Tells Us What We Already Knew: It Was Never About States’ Rights, from Ms. Magazine

THE CONCEPTS OF FETAL PERSONHOOD AND FETAL VIABILITY:

• Unpacking Fetal Personhood: The Radical Tool That Undermines Reproductive Justice, from Pregnancy Justice

• The Role of the Viability Line in Pregnancy Criminalization, from Pregnancy Justice 

A SHAKY FUTURE

• Laws that would make abortion homicide in nine US states, from the bmj

• Planned Parenthood is Defunded: What does this mean, and where do we go from here?, from Planned Parenthood

• Kennedy says FDA is reviewing safety of abortion pill mifepristone, CBS News

• Recent Policy Proposals Could Weaken the Reproductive Health Safety Net as More People Become Uninsured, KKF 

• US health department hands over Medicaid personal data to ICE, from Reuters 

• H.R 1 “Big Bill” Even Worse Than Expected from the Center for Medicare Advocacy

• Defunding Planned Parenthood is an Attack on Women’s Health, Human Rights Watch