#23: Reproductive Rights Are Disability Rights

Shit is bleak in the United States.

I don’t really have words to express the range of emotions I’m feeling right now over the Roe v. Wade news: rage, despair, grief, fear, abject sadness. I’m going to let people who are far more eloquent than me do the talking today.

Please read the joint statement released by the American Association of People with Disabilities, Autistic Self Advocacy Network, Autistic Women and Nonbinary Network, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, Be A Hero Center for American Progress, Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, Little Lobbyists, and Women Enabled International.

Stay well, friends.

-Alex

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Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund @DREDF

Disabled people have the right to self-determination and bodily autonomy. We have the right to make our own decisions. Our human rights include reproductive rights. Abortion rights are disability rights #DisabledAndProChoice #RoeVsWade #Dobbs

not cameron ⛈ @bookishcameron

Disabled pregnant people—esp queer & trans, poor, BIPOC, sick disabled people—WILL die because roe was overturned. The stakes aren’t just politics or economics or quality of life. Some disabled pregnant people just learned that they are going to die. They fucking MATTER.

Kristen Parisi☕️ @Kris10Parisi

Pregnancy is deadly for many disabled people, who are more likely to have complications and to be poor or can’t travel to another state for healthcare. Abortion is a disability rights issue. Abortion is disability health care. #RoeVsWade #dosomething

Black Disability Collective @BlackDisability

Today We are thinking of the disabled folks that this ruling will impact. It’s already difficult for us to receive adequate care and we can’t imagine what this ruling will do to us.

AAPD @AAPD

All disabled people deserve the autonomy and freedom to make the decisions best for ourselves and our lives: about our health care, our families, and how we want to live. Today's Supreme Court decision will rob so many of self-determination. That is devastating.

Charlotte Clymer 🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @cmclymer

Reminders: — Safe abortions will still be sought and had by conservative white women and privately encouraged by conservative white men — Unsafe abortions will still be sought by desperate marginalized people with horrific consequences, leading to needless death and suffering

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Where to Donate

Do not donate directly to politicians. They don’t need your money as much as actual clinics and abortion access funds do. Donate to the National Network of Abortion Funds, Keep Our Clinics, the National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda, the National Abortion Federation, NARAL Pro-Choice America, the Midwest Access Coalition, or any of the funds below. States in bold are states where it’s almost certain that lawmakers will prohibit abortion. Not all 50 states are listed because it was completely dependent on what information I could find online.

You should also check out organizations like If/When/How and National Advocates for Pregnant Women. They’re fighting for people who have been criminalized over their reproductive decisions. RAINN is also a great organization to donate to because we should always be supporting survivors of rape, abuse, and incest.

• Alabama: Yellowhammer Fund, Access Reproductive Care-Southeast

• Alaska: Northwest Abortion Access Fund

• Arizona: Abortion Fund of Arizona, Tuscon Abortion Support Collective 

• Arkansas: Arkansas Abortion Support Network

• Colorado: Cobalt Abortion Fund

• Florida: Florida Access Network, Access Reproductive Care-Southeast, Tampa Bay Abortion Fund

• Georgia: Access Reproductive Care-Southeast

• Idaho: Northwest Abortion Access Fund

• Illinois: Chicago Abortion Fund

• Indiana: All-Options Hoosier Abortion Fund

• Iowa: Iowa Abortion Access Fund

• Kansas: Kansas Abortion Fund

• Kentucky: Kentucky Health Justice Network, A Fund, Inc.

• Louisiana: New Orleans Abortion Fund

• Maryland: Baltimore Abortion Fund

• Massachusetts: Eastern Massachusetts Abortion Fund, The Jane Fund

• Michigan: Fountain Street Church Choice Fund, Reclaim MI WIN Fund

• Minnesota: Our Justice

• Mississippi: Mississippi Reproductive Freedom Fund, Access Reproductive Care-Southeast

• Missouri: Missouri Abortion Fund

• Montana: Susan Wickland Fund

• Nebraska: Abortion Access Fund - Bellevue, NE

• Nevada: Silver State Hope Fund, Wild West Access Fund of Nevada

• New Hampshire: Reproductive Freedom Fund of New Hampshire

• New Jersey: New Jersey Abortion Access Fund

• New Mexico: New Mexico Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, West Fund NM, Mariposa Fund, Indigenous Women Rising

• New York: New York Abortion Access Fund

• North Carolina: Carolina Abortion Fund

• North Dakota: North Dakota Women in Need Abortion Access Fund

• Ohio: Preterm Access Fund, Women Have Options - Ohio

• Oklahoma: Roe Fund

• Oregon: Northwest Abortion Access Fund

• Pennsylvania: Women’s Medical Fund, Western Pennsylvania Fund for Choice

• Rhode Island: Women's Health & Education Fund

• South Carolina: Carolina Abortion Fund, Access Reproductive Care-Southeast

• South Dakota: South Dakota Access for Every Woman

• Tennessee: Abortion Care Tennessee, Access Reproductive Care-Southeast

• Texas: Fund Texas Choice, West Fund, Texas Equal Access Fund, Stigma Relief Fund, Clinic Access Support Network, Lilith Fund, SYS (Support your Sistah), The Bridge Collective, Jane’s Due Process, Buckle Bunnies Fund

• Utah: Utah Abortion Fund

• Vermont: Vermont Access to Reproductive Freedom

• Virginia: Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project, Blue Ridge Abortion Fund, DC Abortion Fund – VA, Stigma Relief Fund – VA

• Washington: Northwest Abortion Access Fund

• West Virginia: Women’s Health Center of West Virginia Choice Fund, Holler Health Justice

• Wisconsin: Women’s Medical Fund

• Wyoming: Chelsea’s Fund

Picture by Emma Guliani