Friend,

Registration is now open for the virtual launch of the Youth Abortion Access Table.

Please join URGE: Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity; If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice; and Advocates for Youth on Wednesday, March 11th from 3pm-4pm EST for a colleague specific webinar on the new Youth Abortion Access Table. 

Young people deserve access to quality, confidential abortion care -- without burdens or barriers. Today, forced parental involvement restrictions either cut young people off from care entirely or force them to navigate out-of-state care or an onerous and oftentimes traumatic judicial bypass process. In the last 5 years, proactive strategies to end the Hyde amendment and dismantle some abortion restrictions have advanced considerably. Now is the time for young people’s access to abortion care to be centered.

Let’s do this better, together. We invite you to join a new collaboration to coordinate, co-conspire, and level-up our efforts to end forced parental involvement and clear the path for young people’s access to abortion care. Forced parental involvement restrictions target young people and deny them timely, confidential care. The judicial bypass process does not mitigate the burden created by forced parental involvement and is itself a burden and barrier to abortion access. Let’s work together to support young people navigating these barriers, and ultimately remove them entirely.

If you want to make sure your voice is heard, please register here.

Preston Mitchum, J.D., LL.M.

Pronouns: He/Him

Director of Policy