Hey Friend --

Today, the Supreme Court of the United States overturned Roe v. Wade. My whole life, abortion has been a basic right. While it hasn’t been accessible to all who’ve needed it, at least Roe was a floor; now the floor has collapsed underneath us.  

While we are not at all surprised by this harmful decision, we are justifiably outraged, and we offer love and solidarity to all who have had abortions, who might need an abortion one day, and all who provide, fund, and defend abortions. Today is a sad day for us all.  

Anger is getting me through the day, but it’s my belief in us, in community, and in the dream of Reproductive Justice that will get me though the coming years of struggle. It is your voices, your actions, your passion that remind me why I came to this work in the first place. It is your demands for justice that show me and URGE where to invest our energies, namely with young people in the South and Midwest, who the Supreme Court has failed with this decision. We are led by the demands for more from Black, brown, queer, and trans folks for whom Roe was never enough.  

So, the question becomes, what’s next? What can we do in this moment as it seems the world is on fire and our rights are being stripped from us daily? 

• Donate to an abortion fund to support folks who need help paying for or travelling to their abortion. 
• Get the facts and know your rights. Sign up for URGE’s post-Roe townhall in collaboration with If/When/How to learn about what this decision means.   
• Donate to Kansans for Constitutional Freedom. URGE Kansas joins the fight against a measure to ban abortion scheduled to appear on the August 2nd primary ballot. Help us preserve abortion access for Kansans and across the Midwest by urging people to vote ‘NO’ on this amendment.   
• Support URGE as we share essential information with young people, including about safe and effective self-managed abortion. Sign up for our next Self-Managed Abortion training, share our Zine, or donate to URGE to help us train others.  

This is day one of a new phase of our work as Reproductive Justice advocates. We will keep fighting, and we will NEVER give up.  

En solidaridad,  

Kimberly Inez McGuire

she/her/ella

Executive Director

Building Young People Power for Reproductive Justice

1012 14th Street NW, Suite 305, Washington, DC xxxxxx

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