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15 things to do in light of Roe v. Wade being overturned

These are in addition to my much longer post. Please add to it.

  1. If you live in a state that has protected abortion rights, contact your governor to urge them to say that your state will not cooperate with other states' investigations into those seeking and those providing abortions (I know that at least the New Jersey and California governors have already made such statements). Here's how to know if your state has protected abortions rights. Here's how to contact your governor.
  2. If you live in a state that does not have protected abortion rights, contat your state reps and governor to urge them to protect abortion rights and strike down restrictive legislation. Here's how to know if your state has protected abortions rights. Here's how to contact your state rep. Here's how to contact your governor.
  3. Find a protest or other event here or here
  4. Contact your representative and senators and encourage them to: 
    1. Restrain judicial review
    2. Expand the court
    3. Build clinics on federal lands
    4. Expand education and access to Plan C
    5. Repeal the Hyde Amendment
    6. Hold floor votes codifying Griswold, Obergefell, Lawrence, and Loving
    7. Vote on Escobar’s bill protecting clinics
    8. Impeach the justices who lied under oath
    9. Vote YES for the Women’s Health Protection Act (senators only)
  5. Contact Biden and encourage him to:
    1. Restrain judicial review
    2. Expand the court
    3. Build clinics on federal lands
    4. Expand education and access to Plan C
    5. Repeal the Hyde Amendment
    6. Establish a reproductive health ombudsman at the Department of Health and Human Services (more info here)
    7. Enforce “Free Choice of Provider” requirements (more info here)
    8. Clarify protections for sensitive health and location data (more info here)
  6. Share posts by the Center for Reproductive Rights and others
  7. Share how to get Plan C
  8. Feel open to sharing your abortion story? Share it to spread awareness and decrease stigma
  9. Encourage people to delete their period tracking apps as the data in them could be used against them if they obtain an abortion
  10. Sign up to get action information from the ACLU
  11. Read and share these facts from Amnesty International
  12. If you're in California, contact your state reps to support the package of 13 bills designed to ease access to abortion and reduce the costs. Here's how to contact your state rep.
  13. If you don't live in California, encourage your state reps to introduce similar bills. Here's how to contact your state rep.
  14. Keep your eyes open for large actions like strikes
  15. Share this post, my long post, and other actions I have missed

(Prompt by me)

"Rally after the leaked Supreme Court opinion" by Victoria Pickering. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). 


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