Hi john,

Friday – finally! And time for your weekly Abortion AF check-in… are you taking care of yourself, friend?? Drinking water, unclenching your jaw, reading up on guillotine construction? Self-care is important, especially as we go through the abortion news of the week.

Grab your knock-off Stanley, and let’s get through it together!

Georgia On My Mind But Full of Rage
This week serves a rotted peach as yet another horrifying pregnancy case emerges. A woman was found unconscious and bleeding out from a miscarriage, and instead of helping… THEY ARRESTED HER. She almost died, but the state has clearly shown that they don’t give a single fuck about pregnant people of color, especially when its their own dangerous laws that caused this to begin with. We’re over the trend of states charging people who dispose of their miscarriage with improper “handling of a corpse” just because they can’t get the abortion charges they actually want, stemming from problems they created. And the icing on this triple layer shit-fuck? The monsters who keep creating the laws that continue to kill women are trying to pass AN EVEN STRICTER ABORTION BAN. Depravity is the point. 

Pennsylvania: We See You!
With the awful comes some good, too – Pennsylvania is the latest state to jump on the “shield law” bandwagon! Shield laws protect or “shield” abortion providers in states where abortion is legal from being prosecuted by out-of-state snatch snitches for helping patients living in abortion ban states access pills through the mail. As anti-abortion states try to extend their reach where they’re not wanted (which is here, there, everywhere, and especially in your underwear), we love to see more places like PA step up and tell them to GTFO. Keep it up, Pennsylvania!!

Feminist Buzzkills Are OFF This week!

Our illustrious Buzzkills are taking this week off to prep for the BIG LIVE SHOW in Washington, DC On April 3rd. Lizz and Moji are meeting fire with FIRE by teaming up with Imani Gandy and Jess Pieklo of the Boom! Lawyered podcast for a LIVE taping at THE famous Black Cat. This 4-headed hilarious hydra will break down the first repro SCOTUS case of the Turd Reich, and fill you in on the current reproductive rights landscape and how we should be gearing up for the fight! Join us live if you can, or catch the pod when it drops on April 4th!  

If you are in DC – don’t miss it… grab your tickets now!

PS–It’s Not Just The Podcast Live In DC! The Whole Damn AAF Crew is Getting Into Some Good Trouble At SCOTUS! JOIN US!
Not only will we be covering the SCOTUS case on the live pod, BUT we’ll also be there rallying and shutting down the anti-abortion protesters! This case could decimate abortion access – so AAF will be joining abortion comrades from across the country to Rally for Patient Rights outside of SCOTUS in Washington, DC, on April 2nd, the morning of oral arguments. We’ve got plenty of signs, plus fun and joyful chants to share with our favorite folks! If you’ll be in DC on the 2nd and are down to clown with our scrappy crew, sign up here and we’ll share all the deets!

CAN’T MAKE IT? HERE ARE SOME OTHER WAYS YOU CAN FIGHT BACK!
Check out the Activist Calendar below to find more ways to get involved!

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

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 by clicking below and help us build up our network to support abortion and the badass folks fighting the good fight!!

HIGHLIGHTS OF SOME DOPE EVENTS THIS WEEK

There’s No Age Limit to Righteous Rage
The fight for abortion access and Reproductive Justice isn’t new, and we have so much still to learn from the different generations in the fight! Join ARC-Southeast for their Across Generations, Across Movements Panel focusing on generational lessons on Friday, March 28th at 6:30pm ET – registration link here!

Reproductive Justice is For Us ALL
Abortion isn’t accessible unless everyone can get the care they need – and disability justice is so often left out of the conversation. The Reproductive Rights Law Initiative (RRLI) at Case Western Reserve University's School of Law is holding a daylong conference to explore disability access during ‘Radical Inclusion at the DisCo: Reproductive Justice is Disability Justice’ on Friday, April 4th from 8am to 5pm ET – registration link here!

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 DC!

Ready for some good trouble,
XO Team Abortion AF