| Local Resources: |
| Community Shares of Texas |
| Community Shares of Texas (formerly Another Way Texas Shares) is a cooperative effort of nonprofit organizations that care about Texas. These agencies work to eliminate the root causes of community problems through essential services and advocacy. |
| I Live Here, I Give Here |
The I Live Here, I Give Here campaign strives to boost local giving by educating fellow Austinites about the needs in Central Texas and the organizations working to meet those needs.
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| Jane's Due Process |
| Jane's Due Process is a non-profit organization that serves as an information and advocacy center promoting fair and equal access for Texas teenagers seeking legal services in order to make a reproductive choice. |
| Lilith: A Fund for Reproductive Equity |
| The Lilith Fund assists women in exercising their fundamental right to abortion by removing barriers to access. |
| Texas Equal Access Fund |
| The Texas Equal Access Fund recognizes that many women in North Texas who would choose abortion are unable to because of financial hardship, social pressure, or a lack of local providers. We are dedicated to helping women with a demonstrated need to pay for their abortions. |
| Whole Woman's Health |
| Whole Woman's Health is a patient-centered women's healthcare practice, where the focus is on the whole woman—her head, her heart, and her body. We offer completely comprehensive women’s services, including abortion care, including the abortion pill; annual exams and pap smears; birth control; treatment for Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs); walk-in emergency contraception; and individual and family counseling services. |
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| National Resources: |
| ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project |
| The ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project protects everyone's right to make informed decisions free from government interference about whether and when to become a parent. |
| Abortion Clinics Online |
| Abortion Clinics OnLine (ACOL) is a directory service comprised of websites of over 400 providers of abortion services and other reproductive healthcare. |
| Alan Guttmacher Institute |
| The Guttmacher Institute is a nonprofit organization focused on sexual and reproductive health research, policy analysis and public education. The Institute's mission is to protect the reproductive choices of all women and men in the United States and throughout the world. |
| Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice |
Founded in 1989, Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice (ACRJ) has been at the forefront of building a Reproductive Justice Movement that places the reproductive health and rights of Asian women and girls within a social justice framework. ACRJ promotes and protects reproductive justice through organizing, building leadership capacity, developing alliances, and education to achieve community and systemic change.
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| Back Up Your Birth Control with EC |
| Back Up Your Birth Control is a national campaign to expand access to emergency contraception (EC) by increasing EC education and awareness. |
| Catholics for a Free Choice |
| Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC) was founded in 1973 to serve as a voice for Catholics who believe that the Catholic tradition supports a woman’s moral and legal right to follow her conscience in matters of sexuality and reproductive health. |
| Center for Reproductive Rights |
| The Center for Reproductive Rights uses the law to advance reproductive freedom as a fundamental right that all governments are legally obligated to protect, respect and fulfill. |
| Civil Liberties & Public Policy Program at Hampshire College |
| For over 25 years, CLPP has been engaging young people in reproductive rights activism. Today, we are a growing national organization, and our annual conference, student internship program, and leadership building projects continue to attract increasing numbers of participants. |
| Feminist Women's Health Center |
| The mission of the Feminist Women's Health Center is to achieve reproductive freedom for women by providing woman-centered healthcare and education, and by advocating all options for all women. The organization's services and education expand women's choices and empower women's decisions. |
| Kaiser Family Foundation |
| The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-profit, private operating foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the nation. The Foundation is an independent voice and source of facts and analysis for policymakers, the media, the health care community, and the general public. |
| Law Students for Reproductive Justice |
| At Law Students for Reproductive Justice, we know that mentoring and mobilizing a diverse group of law students is an essential long-term strategy for building additional capacity, vision, and leadership in the reproductive justice movement. LSRJ’s network of student leaders at over 60 law schools, built in less than five years, fills a unique role by educating and organizing future attorneys, scholars, policymakers, and judges. |
| Medical Students for Choice |
| Medical Students for Choice® (MSFC) is dedicated to ensuring that women receive the full range of reproductive healthcare choices. MSFC recognizes that one of the greatest obstacles to safe and legal abortion is the absence of trained providers. As medical students and residents, we work to make reproductive health care, including abortion, a part of standard medical education and residency training. |
| Merger Watch: A Project of the Education Fund of Family Planning Advocates |
| The mission of the MergerWatch project is to advocate for health care policies, practices and delivery systems which ensure that medical care is guided by scientifically-accurate, unbiased medical information and each patient’s own religious or ethical beliefs. We believe that the needs and rights of patients must come first in medical decision-making and in the design of health care delivery systems. |
| Mom, Dad, I'm Pregnant |
| The "Mom, Dad, I'm Pregnant" site includes advice for teens on telling parents about a pregnancy, considering options, information in case of a rape, and special advice for young male partners. Advice for parents highlights how to respond and improve relationships with daughters and sons, as well as special advice for moms and dads. There are sections on Minor's Rights, and what to do if parents may be abusive, as well as spiritual, legal, and additional resources. |
| National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health |
| The mission of NLIRH is to ensure the fundamental human right to reproductive health for Latinas, their families and their communities through public education, policy advocacy and community mobilization. |
| National Network of Abortion Funds |
| The NNAF provides support and technical assistance to local abortion funds, aids in the creation of new abortion funds in areas where they do not exist, and provides visibility and a voice for women facing financial barriers to abortion. |
| Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health |
| The mission of Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health® (PRCH) is to enable concerned physicians to take a more active and visible role in support of universal reproductive health. PRCH is committed to ensuring that all people have the knowledge, access to quality services and freedom of choice to make their own reproductive health decisions. |
| Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice |
| The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice supports access to sex education, family planning and contraception, affordable child care and health care, and adoption services as well as safe, legal, abortion services, regardless of income. The coalition works for public policies that ensure the medical, economic, and educational resources necessary for healthy families and communities that are equipped to nurture children in peace and love. |
| SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective |
SisterSong is building a movement for reproductive justice. We mobilize women of color around our lived experiences by bringing women of color together, encouraging our collective sustainability through mentoring and self-help, providing a framework that resonates with our lived experience, and organizing and mobilizing to affect change. |
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