Learn more, educate others, support our community partners, and advocate to build, rebuild, and restore policies, programs, and systems that ensure access to abortion services.
Learn more
- Department of Health and Human Services Reproductive Rights webpage, which has info on your right to access care and have it covered by your insurance or other health care coverage (and where to go if you don’t have coverage), your right to birth control, your right to access abortion services and other preventive health services, what to do if your or another person’s civil rights or health information privacy rights have been violated, emergency care info, and how to understand your rights to protect your private medical information under federal law.
- Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) webpage on the Minnesota Constitution and Abortion
- Providers of Abortion Care in Minnesota
- University of California, San Fransciso’s Turnaway Study which “examines the effects of unwanted pregnancy on women’s lives…and describes the mental health, physical health, and socioeconomic consequences of receiving an abortion compared to carrying an unwanted pregnancy to term…The main finding of The Turnaway Study is that receiving an abortion does not harm the health and wellbeing of women, but in fact, being denied an abortion results in worse financial, health and family outcomes.”
- University of Minnesota’s (UMN) Humphrey School of Public Affairs Gender Policy Report article on Abortion and Privacy
- UMN Law School recording Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health: Implications and Impact on Reproductive Rights panel
- UMN Women’s Center’s comprehensive Reproductive Justice Resource Guide
Statements
- Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs (AMCHP) statement
- American Public Health Association (APHA) statement
- University of Illinois at Chicago’s Health Collaboratory statement
- UMN Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity’s (CARHE) statement
Be an agent of change, volunteer and support community partners
- Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs
- American Public Health Association
- Our Justice Advancing Reproductive Freedom
- SisterSong
- Find many others in the UMN Women’s Center Reproductive Justice Resource Guide
This list is not comprehensive