Be rePROACTIVE.

Follow We Testify on Facebook and Twitter to keep up-to-date on their essential work. You can also sign up to receive We Testify newsletters here.

You can also to get involved with We Testify, find more abortion stories, or share your abortion story.

Love the episode art? Find more of graphic artist Sage M. Coffey’s work here!

To stay up-to-date on their important work, follow NFPRHA on Facebook and X!

Hold your state-level elected officials accountable for minimizing Medicaid coverage losses and push for family planning eligibility expansion. Consider the interconnected nature of healthcare and the far-reaching implications of cuts to Medicaid.

Using the Title X Clinic Locator, look into the Title X clinics near you! Even if you don’t need care, learning about the health centers in your community gives you the ability to advocate for them and generate visibility.

Follow the National Partnership for Women and Families on X and Instagram.

Listen to moms and amplify the stories of BIPOC birthing people. You can find NPWF’s research, Four Years Post-Dobbs, Clinic Closures and Attacks on Medication Abortion Harm Women of Color Nationwide, and OBBBA Is Threatening Women’s Health Care Access here. 

Call on your elected officials to protect care for pregnant people. EMTALA can be enshrined at the state level, so contact your state representatives and urge them to enforce the law of the land. 

Learn more about the closure of rural hospitals in the U.S. in a past podcast featuring Ashley Kurzweil here.

Learn more about the Massachusetts Medication Abortion Access Project here. You can also learn more about Cambridge Reproductive Health Consultants and follow them on LinkedIn and Bluesky.

Post information about medication abortion and shield law providers so that misinformation gets busted. Get the word out! If you are in a state with a total ban or a near-total ban, you can reach out to MAP and request grassroots packets that include stickers, flyers, etc. to place around your community.

Follow Shannon on Instagram at Badass Cross Stitch on Instagram.

Find Shannon’s book, Let's Move the Needle: An Activism Handbook for Artists, Crafters, Creatives, and Makers; Build Community and Make Change! on Bookshop.org.

Adopt an artistic craft. It doesn’t have to be serious; it just needs to be creative and fun time afforded to you every day that makes you feel happy. Find ways to intersect that art with your activism. 

Follow the National Abortion Federation on Facebook and Instagram.

Find the full NAF 2025 Violence & Disruption Report here.

Vote your values and your conscience. Until then, be active in your communities. While the federal government has stepped back from enforcing the FACE Act, states can enforce FACE civilly. Reach out to your state representatives and stress the importance of the act’s civil enforcement.

Reach out to your local abortion fund and figure out ways to get involved, whether that’s volunteering, donating, or something else.

Be aware of the way pronatalism creeps into every space, including climate change, housing, and more.

Play defense. Call your local house reps and senators to take action against any pronatalist bills making their way through state legislatures. Advocate for actual pro-family values in policy, including paid leave, contraception access, housing, and universal pre-k.

Find Dr. Grace Howard’s new book, The Pregnancy Police: Conceiving Crime, Arresting Personhood, on bookshop.org.

Learn more about Dr. Grace Howard’s work on her website.

If you are a health care provider, consider not drug testing your pregnant patients (only a few states require mandated reporters) and be more cautious about what you choose to write down on a chart. If a prosecutor in your jurisdiction is fudging the law, vote them out. Generate outrage—on social media or via protest. If you need follow up care after taking abortion pills, you do not have to tell medical staff that you have previously taken abortion pills.

If you can, donate to and support organizations like If/When/How and Pregnancy Justice, which seek to protect the human and legal rights of those criminalized for their pregnancy outcomes. You can also support the Movement for Family Power and Just Making a Change for Families.

To stay up-to-date on their important work, follow Democracy Forward on Instagram and Bluesky. Skye’s book, Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times, will be released in the late summer. All of the proceeds will go to Democracy Forward in representing clients pro-bono.

Do not give up. You are not alone; advocates and communities come together every single day to fight for everyone’s rights. Exercise your right to vote.

Be mindful about the information you are consuming and sharing. 

Support abortion funds and independent clinics!