An abortion, a common form of healthcare, can be performed safely at a healthcare facility or at home. Before medication abortion was made more readily available through telehealth and the mail, however, the vast majority of abortions took place in a healthcare facility.

The Hyde Amendment, which bans federal insurance coverage of abortion care, is the most far-reaching health insurance coverage ban, hindering access for millions of low-income folks, particularly Black and brown women.

Abortion is a common health experience––one in four people who can get pregnant will have an abortion in their lifetime. Despite this, abortion remains mired in confusion and misinformation. Here, we break down some basic medical facts about abortion, to dispel myths and make abortion easy to understand.

Nearly a year has passed since the Supreme Court made its decision in the Dobbs v. Jackson case; the effects have been devastating for abortion access across the United States.

Without access to clean air or drinking water, protections against and efforts to stop the ongoing effects of climate change, or addressing the real environmental racism that our country continues to be built on, people aren’t able to meet one of the core principles of Reproductive Justice: to raise healthy children.

The goal of Economic Justice is to create opportunities for all to succeed regardless of sex, race, age, disability, color, creed, national origin, religion, or genetic information.

Reproductive Justice (RJ) talks not only about access to abortion, but to all the ways that reproductive freedom is limited in our modern, white supremacist society and the ways a child is or is not brought into this world, from birth control to housing.