Reproductive Rights

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by Sabrina Gatlin3 views·Updated Dec 6, 2022
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  1. rights and some resources to help you find the cure you need.
  2. After the Supreme Court decision on June 25,
  3. many states enacted trigger bands or move
  4. to restrict or even eliminate abortion completely.
  5. These are some of the more restricted states
  6. west Virginia Kentucky Tennessee Missouri Arkansas
  7. Louisiana Mississippi Alabama texas Oklahoma,
  8. South Dakota and Idaho have all basically eliminated abortion.
  9. With very few exceptions.
  10. Mhm
  11. These states have not completely eliminated abortion.
  12. However, they have so many restrictions in place. It is very difficult to obtain one
  13. the Ohio indiana Wisconsin south Carolina north Carolina Georgia florida,
  14. north Dakota Wyoming Utah and Arizona
  15. and pennsylvania michigan Iowa and Nebraska
  16. still have several restrictions on abortion.
  17. It is fairly difficult to obtain them.
  18. Now there are some states that are still pretty accessible for abortion care,
  19. Virginia Minnesota colorado.
  20. They still have some restrictions but they're very few.
  21. And abortion is mostly accessible here.
  22. Most accessible.
  23. The easiest states to access abortion care are gonna be maine Vermont,
  24. new Hampshire massachusetts, Rhode island Connecticut,
  25. new jersey Delaware Maryland, new york Montana Washington Oregon,
  26. Nevada California, new Mexico Alaska and hawaii.
  27. Now for those of us in states that do not
  28. have easy access to abortion care or any access.
  29. There's still a few options.
  30. Those would be abortion pills like miSOPROStol.
  31. Um that's one that you can get by mail
  32. that's typically for pregnancies no further than 12 weeks along.
  33. Um these websites plan c pills dot org.
  34. Safety choose dot org and planned parenthood dot
  35. org All have more information on miss a postal
  36. and also have resources to help find providers that
  37. are able to provide these pills by mail.
  38. Your other option is if you are able to go out of state,
  39. you can find an abortion provider at I need an A
  40. dot com abortion finder dot org or planned parenthood dot org.
  41. All of these have finding services to help
  42. you locate abortion services out of state,
  43. especially if you are further than 12 weeks along
  44. and
  45. going on. The state is not always
  46. easy for those with low income or limited resources.
  47. So there are some funding options
  48. um as well as
  49. emotional support options. Mountain access brigade dot org.
  50. They offer emotional support information,
  51. financial assistance for things like transportation, hotels and child care.
  52. If you do need to go out of state,
  53. you can find them on facebook mountain access brigade.
  54. Um they're a local organization and they help in any way that they can.
  55. Um, the website abortion funds dot org is a larger search engine
  56. to help find abortion fund assistance.
  57. There are many different options for financial assistance um,
  58. on abortion funds or organ does say that they recommend you find a clinic that
  59. you can get an appointment at and then search for abortion funds at that time.
  60. So there's still,
  61. there are still options for those of us who live in an inaccessible state,
  62. um and may need abortion care or abortion services
  63. and for those of us that may want to volunteer to try to help
  64. promote abortion rides or help people find resources that they need.
  65. There are some volunteer options.
  66. Um, you can volunteer through planned parenthood.
  67. You can go to their website and it will give you information on volunteering.
  68. There's also the local group chat into the health advocacy team.
  69. They are available. They have a facebook page as well as an instagram
  70. and of course, we have our very own generation action here at U. T. C.