Resources
Links
- Reproductive Options & Support
- Abortion Information & Resources
- Reproductive Health Resources
- Sexuality & Sexual Health
- Pregnancy & Parenting Resources
- Organizations By and For Women of Color
- For Young Women & Girls
- Reproductive Rights & Freedom
- International Organizations
- Fight the Right-Wing Groups
Reproductive Options & Support
- Pregnancy Options: Online resources to help you make a decision about pregnancy, including nonjudgmental and supportive information on abortion, adoption and parenting. There are online exercises, a workbook you can order, and many useful links.
Abortion Information And Resources
- Abortion Clinics Online: Abortion Clinics OnLine (ACOL) is a directory service comprised of websites of over 400 providers of abortion services and other reproductive healthcare. They may be private physician's offices, state licensed abortion clinics, private abortion clinics, or hospital abortion services. Abortion clinics listed are in 40 states, as well as international countries.
- National Network of Abortion Funds: Abortion funds are community-based, often all-volunteer, organizations that help women and girls who want to terminate a pregnancy but cannot afford the cost of a safe, legal abortion. On the NNAF website, you can contact an abortion fund in your area, find information about the need for abortion funds, or get ideas for starting your own abortion fund to help women in your community.
- National Abortion Federation (NAF): NAF is the professional association of abortion providers in the United States and Canada. NAF offers quality training and services to abortion providers and unbiased information and referral services to women, including many online resources and a national toll-free hotline at 1-800-772-9100.
- The Abortion Access Project: The Abortion Access Project seeks to ensure access to abortion for all women by increasing abortion services, training new abortion providers, and raising awareness about the critical importance of abortion access to women's lives.
Reproductive Health Resources
- Emergency Contraception NOT-TOO-LATE.com: Find a provider in your area that dispenses Emergency Contraception (EC), which can be taken to prevent pregnancy up to 5 days AFTER unprotected sexual intercourse.
- Emergency Contraception Pharmacy Program: In California and seven other states (Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Washington) women can get EC directly from a pharmacy without visiting a doctor or clinic first. Find a pharmacy here!
- Feminist Women's Health Center: The Feminist Women's Health Center provides woman-centered healthcare and education, and advocates all options for all women. Their website is full of amazing information on every reproductive health topic, women's personal stories, and ideas for activism.
- National Women's Health Network: The National Women's Health Network was founded in 1975 to give women a greater voice within the healthcare system. The Network believes that with the right information, all women can make informed health decisions, and they provide clear, well researched, and independent women's health information on their website, through email, phone, and mail.
- Women Organized to Respond to Life-threatening Disease (WORLD): WORLD is an information & support network by, for and about Women with HIV/AIDS. Their programs include a quarterly newsletter, peer advocacy and outreach, perinatal support for pregnant women with HIV/AIDS, information and referrals, and trainings and retreats for HIV+ women.
Sexuality & Sexual Health
- Good Vibrations: Good Vibrations is a worker-owned, women-owned cooperative that offers sex toys, sex education, erotic and informative books, adult videos and more. Good Vibes believes that sexual pleasure is everyone's birthright, and that access to sexual materials and accurate sex information promotes health and happiness.
- Toys in Babeland: A sex toy store run by women whose mission is to promote and celebrate sexual vitality by providing an honest, open and fun environment, encouraging personal empowerment, educating our community, and supporting a more passionate world for all of us.
Pregnancy & Parenting Resources
- Low Income Families' Empowerment Through Education (LIFETIME): LIFETIME's mission is to empower low-income parents to determine, pursue and achieve their goals for education, employment and economic security. Low-income parents can find information and resources on welfare reform, financial aid, or childcare, and get involved in advocacy campaigns.
- Single Mothers Online: Official site of the National Organization of Single Mothers, Inc., dedicated to helping single moms by choice or chance face the daily challenges of life with wisdom, wit, dignity, confidence and courage since 1991.
- California Paid Family Leave: California workers can now get up to six weeks of partial pay a year while taking time off from work to care for a sick family member or bond with a new baby, adopted or foster child. Both parents can take bonding leave. Most people get just over half (55%) of their usual pay, up to a maximum, while on leave. The payments are distributed by the EDD, a state agency, not the employer.
Organizations by and for Women of Color
- Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice: ACRJ is a social, political and economic justice organization working for the liberation of Asian women and girls through the lens of reproductive justice. They play a pioneering role in defining a progressive women's reproductive rights agenda through grassroots organizing and advocacy work.
- Black Women's Health Imperative: Black Women's Health Imperative's mission is to promote optimum health for Black women across the life span ? physically, mentally and spiritually. The organization's aim is to deepen the public's resolve to invest in health prevention strategies and research that contribute to Black women leading healthier, longer lives.
- National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health: The mission of NLIRH is to ensure the fundamental human right to reproductive health for Latinas, their families and their communities through public education, policy advocacy, and community mobilization. NLIRH is the only national Latina health and reproductive rights organization representing an increasingly diverse and growing Latina population.
- Indigenous Women's Reproductive Rights and Pro-Choice Page: The purpose of this page is to provide information concerning Indigenous women's reproductive health and their perspectives on pro-choice issues. The Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center also distributes brochures and investigative reports on the use and effects of Depo-Provera and Norplant on Native American women, the impact of AIDS in the Native American community, and the causes and risks of various sexually transmitted diseases.
- Women of Color Resource Center: Founded in 1990, the Women of Color Resource Center (WCRC) is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and promotes the political, economic, social and cultural well being of women and girls of color in the United States.
For Young Women & Girls
- Coalition for Positive Sexuality: CPS has a quick and easy online tour through the most important topics for teens who are sexually active now or just thinking about having sex. It's called "Just Say Yes" because "we're tired of people telling us what we can and can't do." There's no preaching. No moralizing. Just the facts.
- Health Initiatives For Youth (HIFY): HIFY's mission is to improve the health and well-being of young people by empowering them through education, advocacy and leadership opportunities. They offer a variety of workshops and publications for youth and the adults who work with them, including the Young Woman's Survival Guide.
- Girl-Mom: Support, Community & Education for Young Mamas: GirlMom.com is designed and moderated BY and FOR young mothers. It is a politically progressive, left-aligned, pro-choice, feminist website. Girlmom.com intends to support young mothers, of all backgrounds, in their struggles for reproductive freedom and social support.
- Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center (LYRIC): A Community Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning youth 23 & under.
- SexETC by Teens for Teens: A website by teens, for teens, about sex and sexuality.
- Pro-Choice Public Education Project: PEP's goal is to educate young women about reproductive freedom & choice, energizing a new generation of pro-choice leaders.
- Choice USA: Choice USA mobilizes and provides ongoing support to the diverse, upcoming generation of leaders who promote and protect reproductive choice both now and in the future.
- Third Wave Foundation: The goal of Third Wave is to harness the energy of young feminists nationwide by sharing information and resources, thereby creating a community in which members can coalesce, network, strategize, and ultimately take action around issues that affect us all.
Reproductive Rights
- California Coalition for Reproductive Freedom: CCRF is a coalition of more than 40 organizations working to affect state policy and promote women's health and well-being.
- The Alan Guttmacher Institute: The Guttmacher Institute is a nonprofit organization focused on sexual and reproductive health research, policy analysis and public education.
- Kaiser Family Foundation's Reproductive Health Page: The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation is an independent voice and source of facts and analysis on national health issues for policymakers, the media, the health care community, and the general public.
- ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project: The ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project protects everyone's right to make informed decisions free from government interference about whether and when to become a parent.
- NARAL Pro-Choice California: NARAL is the political arm of the pro-choice movement. They educate voters on reproductive rights issues and provide people with the tools they need to participate more fully in the democratic processes that affect their reproductive choices.
- Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California: PPAC represents nine separately incorporated Planned Parenthood affiliates throughout California on statewide governmental issues.
- Center for Reproductive Rights: CRLP is an independent, non-profit legal organization dedicated to ensuring that all women have access to appropriate and freely chosen reproductive health services.
- Medical Students for Choice: Medical students and residents working to make reproductive health education a standard part of medical training. "The biggest obstacle to safe, legal abortion today is not the law. It is the absence of trained providers."
- Pro-Choice Public Education Project: PEP's goal is to educate young women about reproductive freedom & choice, energizing a new generation of pro-choice leaders.
- California NOW: The California National Organization for Women (CA NOW) is the largest state organization of feminists, both women and men, in the United States. It is made up of 40 chapters throughout the state, representing over 80,000 members and supporters.
- Feminist Majority Foundation:Working for social, political and economic equality for women by using research and education to improve women's lives. FMF Online features daily feminist news, action items, domestic violence and sexual assault hotlines, a feminist career center, feminist research resources, information on women and girls in sports, and more.
International Organizations
- Engender Health: Works worldwide to improve the lives of individuals by making reproductive health services safe, available, and sustainable. EngenderHealth provides technical assistance, training, and information, with a focus on practical solutions that improve services where resources are scarce.
- International Women's Heath Coalition: A nonprofit organization based in New York City that works with individuals and groups in Africa, Asia, and Latin America to promote women's reproductive and sexual health and rights.
- Ipas: Works globally to improve women's lives through a focus on reproductive health. Our work is based on the principle that every woman has a right to the highest attainable standard of health, to safe reproductive choices, and to high quality health care.
- Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH): Improving the health of women and children in low-resource settings.
Fight the Right Organizations
- Biblical America Resistance Front (BARF):A resource for all who work to monitor and counter the Biblical America movement.
- Refuse & Resist!: The organization for everyone who refuses to go along with today's national agenda of repression and cruelty, poverty and punishment.