The Path Forward on Abortion Resource Guide

July 9, 2024

June 2024 marks the two-year anniversary of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the disastrous Supreme Court decision that ended the constitutional right to abortion and left abortion rights up to the states.

Since the Dobbs decision, over 25 states have significantly restricted access to abortion, with 17 states implementing total bans. Check out the latest updates in the states.

However, attacks on abortion have not stopped there. In 2024, two cases reached the Supreme Court working to further limit access to abortion. In FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, the Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone (one of two common forms of medication abortion) but explicitly left the door open for future challenges to medication abortion. In Idaho v. United States, the Supreme Court temporarily paused Idaho’s near-total abortion ban that lacked a clear exception for emergency abortion care but returned the case to courts for future litigation, allowing states to deny life-saving abortion care. Additionally, numerous state legislatures and courts have attacked IVF and birth control.

Now more than ever, it's necessary to protect reproductive rights in every way we can. Join the Reform Movement in taking action to protect and advance abortion access. 

TOP ACTIONS TO PROTECT ABORTION ACCESS WITH THE RAC AND WRJ: 

  1. Contact Congress and urge them to support
  2. Join RAC-FL's campaign to put reproductive freedom on the ballot in 2024.
  3. Join RAC-NY and Women of Reform Judaism's campaign to protect rights and reproductive freedoms by putting an Equal Rights Amendment in New York state constitution.
  4. Support the RAC and WRJ our efforts to mobilize a Reform Jewish response at the national, state, and local levels.

TO FIND INFORMATION ON RECEIVING ABORTION CARE

TO SUPPORT PROVIDERS AND ABORTION SEEKERS:

  • Donate to Abortion Funds: Funding for patient care. Learn about NNAF's demands for creating a future where all people have access to abortion without shame or stigma.
  • Support/Share Practical Support Organizations (PSO's): PSOs help abortion seekers with travel and logistical support
  • Volunteer with Operation Save Abortion!
  • Adopt-A-Clinic: Abortion Access Front works with clinics across the country to keep track of urgently needed items like underwear, snacks, and gift cards for patients traveling for care. You can select the clinic or fund you want to support and then purchase items that will be shipped to that clinic or funded directly.

TO DESTIGMATIZE ABORTIONS

JEWISH RESOURCES ON ABORTION

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