Hi john,

We wish December could be a time to slow down and rest up to fend off anti-abortion attacks in the new year, but turns out evil never rests and neither does the fight to defeat it! It can be difficult to keep up with all of the fuckery in court and beyond, but we’re here to keep you up-to-date and up-to-enraged; stick with us, friend, because we’ve got your back.

Who Needs Law And Order Reruns When There Are So Many “Special Victims” In The Anti-Abortion Movement?

Ida-Hoes Before Embryos, Got It??The federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) is back in the courts as Idaho fights to lift an injunction preventing them from…letting someone die rather than give them an abortion if it will save their life?? We wish we made that up, but Idaho officials would rather sacrifice pregnant people to their ideology than listen to actual medical professionals who claim the ban creates uncertainty, potentially delaying critical emergency care. Why listen to medical professionals who went to medical school when you can listen to politicians who have, idk, probably at least heard of a medical school at some point in their lives? Tomato, tomahtoe.

New Jersey: Bitch Better Have Their Donor Lists
And in New Jersey, a super “special victim” AKA a sketchy fake clinic is under a consumer safety investigation for pushing the medically-dubious "Abortion Pill Reversal", arguing that it shouldn't have to release their donor lists. Why, you ask? Because it might betray their donors' confidence and discourage future donations. Nevermind that the list would only be reviewed by the court and not publicly released – how ever will they bring in more money to push bad science and mislead abortion seekers? That’s the REAL problem here!

We’ll Tell You Where to Stick That Data…
Here’s a fun one: Fog Data Science, a location tracking company, offered law enforcement agencies access to smartphone-derived location data to assist in tracking individuals, including addresses of doctors' offices they may visit. In our post-Roe world where 14 states have made abortion illegal, this invasion of privacy has frightening implications for abortion criminalization, particularly for already vulnerable groups of people, and the inherent danger if the data is misused or falls into the wrong anti-abortion hands. Horrible schemes by horrible people are totally normal – nothing to see here. 

HOW YOU CAN FIGHT BACK!
If they’re gonna track us, let’s make them work for it! Check out our Activist Calendar below to find all the different ways to get in the fight!

Not feeling like you wanna dig around a calendar? Here are this week’s highlights!

SOMETHING TO DO RIGHT NOW 

BONUS ACTION ITEM!
Michigan is actually doing something about making sure we get justice for SA survivors with the Justice for Survivors package, a series of bills aimed at protecting and supporting sexual assault survivors. The package expands the statute of limitations, includes a revival statute for folks who missed their window to seek justice, and a Survivor’s Bill of Rights. THERE IS ACTION YOU CAN TAKE TO HELP GET IT PASSED! AAF’s own Emily Bice is spearheading an email campaign to make sure our voices are heard. Whether or not you’re from Michigan, you can email state reps and senators to let them know that this bill matters and should be voted on ASAP! She’s put together copy and paste email templates for you to get started and get emailing! It’ll take less than five minutes – find the templates here and help make change!

HIGHLIGHTS OF SOME DOPE EVENTS THIS WEEK

They Can’t Ban Book Clubs!
To defeat the enemy, we must know thy enemy, and Gender Justice is here to drop that knowledge! Join their final meeting of the Rights, Faith, and Democracy Book Club as they read about the extremism of white Christian nationalism on Tuesday, December 17th from 6pm to 7:30pm CST – registration link here!

What About Banning Fake Clinics??
If we can’t ban fake clinics, at least we can expose them and their dangerous practices! Join Expose Fake Clinics to learn all about what fake clinics are and how to fight back against the ones in your own community on Wednesday, December 18th from 7pm to 8pm ET – registration link here!

Volunteer Skill Share!
You have the skills, we’ve got the clinics – let’s put them together! Fill out our Volunteer Skill Share form, and if the time comes where a clinic could use that support, we’ll hook y’all up! Trust us…everybody has skills to share. Baking, landscaping, graphic design, video editing accounting, painting…whatever you’re good at and would love to help with, put it down.

We can all help out in our own ways – fill out the form now and help us build up our network to support abortion!!

'No One Asked You’ is now STREAMING AND YOU CAN FINALLY SEE IT! 
BREAKING NEWS: ‘No One Asked You’, the Lizz Winstead & Abortion Access Front documentary all about AAF’s work for the last seven years, is now available everywhere in the world through the new platform JOLT.FILM!

From October 25th through January 31st, ‘No One Asked You’ is available to watch from home from anywhere in the world – click below to get started!

Now more than ever Abortion Access Front could use your support. If we made you smarter or helped you engage with fellow do-gooders, please consider dropping a few dollars in the coffers to help us keep the work going

See you in the new year,
Xo Team Abortion AF