The State of Repro
73% of Americans believe current restrictions on this medical procedure have gone too far.
What is abortion?
When abortion is on the ballot, it wins voter approval more often than any other type of ballot measure, any party or any candidate.
John James (R), who has promised to make abortion illegal even in cases of rape or incest, is running against Jocelyn Benson for this Michigan office.
What is Governor?
Benson has been open about how her own experience with miscarriage informs her fierce advocacy for reproductive freedom.
Joining this organization (formerly known as NARAL) gives folx the chance to fight back against attacks on repro freedom, wherever they live.
What is Reproductive Freedom for All?
The first two folx to sign up for a Repro Freedom Action Council today will recieve CampIt gift cards!
This is the name of the SCOTUS decision that protected the right to abortion in all 50 states (overturned in 2022).
What is Roe v Wade?
This decision, highly irregular and unprecedented, was made possible by Trump's appointment of three highly conservative judges to the court, who joined three other religious idealogues. This has provided a 6-3 supermajority.
In Michigan, this agency is the largest provider of health care to patients on a limited income, including those on Medicaid and Title X.
What is Planned Parenthood?
Repro Freedom For All works in coalition with PP and other repro justice agencies to ensure safe access to health care.
This percentage of Americans believes in the right to abortion: 40%, 58% or 80%.
What is 80%?
That percentage reflects the general public, including Republicans, men, residents of Southern states and all other demographic groups.
Mike Rogers (R), who has repeatedly promised to pass a national abortion ban, is running against which candidate for U.S. Senate in Mich.?
Who is Abdul El-Sayed?
In the House, Rogers co-sponsored bills that would have said life begins at conception and effectively prohibited medication abortion.
This is a direct action that reaches voters, family and friends through SMS messages.
What is Text Banking?
During election season Repro Freedom hosts weekly text banks! Sign up for a local Action Council to learn more.
This term is defined as: the right to bodily autonomy, to have children, to not have children and to parent children in safe, sustainable communities.
What is reproductive justice?
While repro freedom is the legal right to access care, repro justice is the ability to access that care, which has traditionally been inequitable for people of color or people who live in underresourced communities.
In addition to abortion, this is one of the critical health care services that Planned Parenthood provides.
What is birth control pills, contraceptives, STI treatment, neonatal care, cancer screening, vaccines and hormone therapy?
Many menopausal folx get their HRT from PP, as well as those seeking gender-affirming care.
This is one of the 13 states where the right to abortion is banned entirely and enforced with criminal penalties.
What are Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia?
Public health experts estimate that abortion bans have led to the deaths of at least 59 women after doctors denied them life-saving care.
This Lt. Governor is a Repro Freedom-endorsed candidate running for Michigan Secretary of State.
Who is Garlin Gilchrist Jr.?
SOSs play a critical role in enforcing protections for abortion access. Extremists in the legislature continue to push laws restricting access, despite Michiganders’ decisive votes to protect abortion care.
This direct action involves calling voters to promote repro freedom candidates before an election.
What is Phone Banking?
During election season, Repro volunteers call voters every week from their own homes. Sign up for an Action Council to join!
Some states have attempted to revive the federal Comstock Act, which criminalized the mailing of "obscene" information and abortion medication, enacted in the year: 1873, 1935 or 1985.
What is 1873?
Anthony Comstock was a moral crusader who championed the patriarchal values of white cis men in the wake of the Civil War.
Due to pressure from conservative anti-choice groups, only two pharmacy chains in the U.S. will dispense abortion medication when prescribed by a doctor. Name them.
What are CVS and Walgreens?
Costco recently bent to pressure from conservative investors in refusing to dispense this life-saving med to customers. Making matters worse, there are no grocery store pharmacies that will fill these scripts either.
22 states have established a constitutional right to abortion by bringing the issues to voters this way.
What is a ballot initiative?
In 2022, Michigan voters approved Prop 3 with 57% of the vote. This added the right to abortion and contraceptive use to the state Constitution.
Eli Savit is a repro freedom champion running to succeed Dana Nessel for this job.
What is Attorney General?
Eli worked under the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. He served as a civil-rights and public-interest attorney, started his career as a public school teacher, and is now Washtenaw County Prosecuting Attorney.
This direct action is a door-to-door method of engaging with local voters.
What is Canvassing?
See Tina if you'd like to learn more about this as a paid or volunteer position.
This collective of 12 Black women coined the term "reproductive justice" in 1994 in Atlanta.
What is SisterSong Women of Color Collective?
Dr. Toni M. Bond Leonard, Reverend Alma Crawford, Evelyn S. Field, Terri James, Bisola Marignay, Cassandra McConnell, Cynthia Newbille, Lorretta Ross, Elizabeth Terry, ‘Able’ Mable Thomas, Winnette P. Willis, and Kim Youngblood
Recently, Planned Parenthood closed this number of clinics in Michigan, after the U.S. Congress voted to defund the agency.
What is 7?
Lansing, Livonia, Warren, Jackson, Petoskey, Marquette and Ann Arbor. (1 clinic remains in Ann Arbor)
10 states have protected providers, patients, and helpers who provide abortion care with this type of legislation.
What is an interstate shield law or a governor's executive order?
Privacy watchdogs have recently warned that Flock cameras and other ALPRs may be used to track people traveling out of state for abortion care.
This candidate is running against Rep. Tom Barrett (R) to represent the Lansing area (CD-7) in U.S. Congress.
Who is William Lawrence?
Barrett's votes to defund Planned Parenthood have led to the closure of nearly half of the clinics across Michigan in the last two years.
Repro Freedom For All supports these people to host their own "Rights Night" parties — a fun way to educate and mobilize friends and family.
Who is EVERYONE?
If you'd like to do an event like this customized for your own district or state, see Tina!
In the 2024 case, FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, SCOTUS ruled unanimously to maintain access to this abortion pill.
What is mifepristone ("mife")?
Louisiana's AG, Liz Murrill, has revived the lawsuit to end telehealth prescriptions of mife, which would bring this same issue back to SCOTUS.
By 2023, the number of out-of-state patients seeking abortion care in Michigan increased by this percentage: 10%, 100%, or 200%.
What is 200%?
Michigan's clinics often serve folx in nearby states that have restricted or outlawed abortion (Indiana, Ohio) as well as those from more distant locations, such as Texas or Georgia.