Organizations That Surmount Barriers to Direct Service
Clinics and providers [1]
carafem: As a national provider of abortion care and birth control, carafem offers clients access to care and resources online, via video, or in medical offices, with additional 24/7 support from Cara, a text-based information platform. It operates in 20 states, adapts to changing US regulations, and is working to expand compassionate care to more states.
CHOICES-Center for Reproductive Health: The clinic offers comprehensive reproductive care, including medication and procedural abortions, gynecological wellness care, gender-affirming hormone therapy, HIV testing and referrals, no-cost birth control, midwife-led prenatal care and births, and more. CHOICES recently opened an Illinois location after Tennessee—where its original clinic remains open—banned abortions.
Feminist Center for Reproductive Liberation: From its base in Atlanta, the center provides direct reproductive care services, education, advocacy, leadership development, and movement building. Clinic services include abortion care, birth control, emergency contraception, HIV testing and counseling, sexually transmitted disease infection testing and treatment, pregnancy testing, and gender-affirming care.
Just the Pill: The organization provides equitable access to abortion, contraception, and other sexual and reproductive health services by combining telemedicine and mobile clinics. Just the Pill currently serves people in Minnesota, Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming, including those who travel to receive care.
The Massachusetts Medication Abortion Access Project (The MAP): Part of Cambridge Reproductive Health Consultants, The MAP uses an asynchronous telemedicine platform to provide medication abortion care to abortion seekers throughout the United States. For patients who need abortion pills immediately, The MAP offers a pay-as-much-as-you-can-afford-to-pay model, aligned with the organization’s belief that abortion care should be available and accessible to everyone.
Planned Parenthood: Planned Parenthood affiliate health centers provide comprehensive reproductive health care services, including family planning, testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections, cancer screenings, gender affirming care for transgender and non-binary patients, and abortion. Nationally, Planned Parenthood Federation of America supports access to care through direct patient assistance funds, digital wayfinding, and other resources to support affiliates.
Regrantors and networks that fund abortion care clinics
Keep Our Clinics: A campaign of the Abortion Care Network, Keep Our Clinics supports independent clinics with the resources they need to cover expenses such as increased security, building repairs, legal fees, staff, and community education and advocacy. The Abortion Care Network is a membership organization committed to supporting the roughly 350 independent abortion clinics that provide the majority of abortion care in the United States.
National Network of Abortion Funds (NNAF): The network of 100 independent abortion funds supports member abortion funds by providing grants, leadership development, infrastructure support, and technical assistance. Because this article’s list is not comprehensive, you can also refer to NNAF’s list of funds to find other funds, searchable by geographies served. The list indicates when a fund is “paused”—that is when the fund has no available support.
Resources for Abortion Delivery: The organization promotes the resilience of US abortion service providers so that abortion seekers have timely and equitable access to quality care. It distributes resources—including grants and loans, technical support, and free legal compliance advice—to abortion providers to maximize abortion access. It also assists funders in making grant decisions.
Other abortion funds:
- Access Reproductive Care-Southeast, or ARC Southeast
- Holler Health Justice
- Indigenous Women Rising
- Mountain Access Brigade
- Northwest Abortion Access Fund
- The Pink House Fund
- Tampa Bay Abortion Fund
- TEA Fund (Texas Equal Access Fund)
- WRRAP (Women’s Reproductive Rights Assistance Project)
- Yellowhammer Fund
Travel and expense support funds
Apiary for Practical Support: This is a national hub for groups that provide logistical assistance—transportation, lodging, childcare, and more—to people seeking abortions. Apiary provides tactical tools, trainings, resources, and community spaces to make it easier for new and existing practical support organizations to grow sustainably.
The Brigid Alliance: This referral-based service arranges and pays for local and long-distance travel, lodging, meals, childcare, and other logistical needs for those who travel long distances for abortion care. Two-thirds of its clients are BIPOC, and one-third are already parents. They travel an average of 1,218 miles for care, and the average cost per itinerary is $2,300.
Fund Texas Choice: This practical support abortion fund provides financial, logistical, and emotional support to Texans traveling an average of over 1,500 miles round trip to safely and legally access abortion care in other states. They pay for flights, hotel accommodations, gas, ride shares, food, childcare, and a variety of other expenses Texans encounter on their journey to the abortion clinic.
Jane's Due Process: This organization helps young people in Texas navigate parental consent laws and abortion bans to confidentially access abortion and birth control. This includes providing funding for abortion and practical/travel support, free emergency contraception, and stigma-free information on sexual and reproductive health.
Midwest Access Coalition: The coalition helps people traveling to, from, and within the Midwest to access a safe abortion by assisting with travel coordination and costs, lodging, food, medicine, childcare, and emotional support.
National Abortion Hotline: This is the largest national, toll-free, multi-lingual Hotline that helps people find accurate information about abortion, referrals, and financial assistance in the U.S. and Canada. The National Abortion Hotline helps people find a provider and plan their care no matter where they live. The Hotline provides comprehensive case management services and financial assistance to help patients afford the cost of their care and travel-related expenses. In 2023, the National Abortion Hotline provided financial assistance to over 106,000 people seeking abortion care nationwide and provided nearly $2 million in travel assistance support to 1,200 patients through its travel assistance fund.
Information infrastructure organizations
Aya Contigo: Aya Contigo is an award-winning, privacy-first, bilingual digital platform. It provides informational, emotional, and navigational support for abortion, contraception, and miscarriage journeys through a web app and chat-based companion to people in the United States and Latin America. To ensure it would be responsive to its users’ needs, Aya Contigo was co-created with thousands of Latinas and over a dozen grassroots organizations, in partnership with leading international sexual and reproductive health organizations.
Charley: Charley is a text-based chatbot that offers secure, accurate, and up-to-date information about abortion access across the United States. It helps users anonymously explore their abortion options, which is especially important for people living in states where abortion is banned or restricted. The tool also provides users with resources for financial, medical, legal, and emotional support.
ineedana.com: This easy-to-use, up-to-date information resource allows users to enter non-personally identifiable information to get a list of the closest clinics, relevant laws, and local support resources, such as abortion funds.
M+A Hotline: The M+A (Miscarriage and Abortion) Hotline helps people seeking information and support before, during, and after a miscarriage or abortion. The free, confidential hotline is staffed by volunteer clinicians who provide accurate medical information no matter where someone lives. The M+A Hotline is open 365 days a year, and individuals who call or text the Hotline are connected with volunteer clinicians, giving them access to tailored and compassionate support throughout their journeys.
Mayday Health: This reproductive health education nonprofit helps people make informed decisions about their own bodies by sharing information on reproductive health care options in any state. Mayday has compiled a robust set of resources to help users learn about their options for accessing different forms of reproductive health care, including abortion, gender-affirming care, birth control, and morning after pills.
Online Abortion Resource Squad: The organization uses Reddit to fight disinformation, counter myths and misinformation, and ensure that people have the information and support they need to access safe abortion care no matter where they live. The Online Abortion Resource Squad recruits, trains, supports, and coordinates an international team of abortion experts to provide information and individualized navigational support to the 80,000-plus individuals from the United States and around the world who visit the abortion subreddit each month.
Plan C: This national public health organization provides practical information about how to access abortion pills by mail in every state. Plan C’s website offers a research-based guide to abortion pill access. It works with technology innovators, artists, and media providers to promote information on medication abortion.
Right By You: This free and confidential text service provides teens in Missouri with information on abortion care, birthing care, adoption and parenting supports, birth control, and legal rights.
SASS-Self-Managed Abortion; Safe & Supported: The US project of Women Help Women, a global nonprofit organization that supports the rights of people to have information about and access to safe abortion with pills. The project provides information and support regarding self-managed abortion to empower people to have reproductive choices, regardless of income or zip code.
Provider infrastructure organizations
Abortion Care Network: The Abortion Care Network (ACN) is the professional association for independent abortion care providers (Indies), who provide the majority of abortion care in the United States. ACN’s programs support independent clinics and their staffs’ resilience and sustainability. ACN offers virtual and in-person financial and technical assistance, leadership development, media training and placements, and therapeutic and wellness supports. ACN is a network of clinics and allied organizations, and the core of its work is building connections between Indies and movement allies to create space to dream and build a more equitable abortion ecosystem. In 2024, 91 percent of surveyed clinic members reported increased clinic sustainability directly due to their ACN membership.
Digital Defense Fund: The organization provides digital security and technology support to organizations and individuals working in the abortion access movement. It works to support and expand the capacity of abortion rights and provider organizations, and individual organizers.
National Abortion Federation (NAF): The professional association of abortion providers, NAF supports abortion providers in delivering patient-centered, evidence-based care. The federation also operates the National Abortion Hotline and the nation’s largest patient assistance fund, which pays for roughly 100,000 abortion procedures and related travel expenses each year.
Nurses for Sexual and Reproductive Health: The organization provides students, nurses, and midwives with education and resources to become skilled care providers and social change agents in sexual and reproductive health and justice.
Reproductive Health Access Project: The project trains, supports, and mobilizes primary care clinicians to ensure equitable access to sexual and reproductive health care, including abortion. By centering communities most impacted by barriers to care, it fills critical gaps in clinical education and care delivery.
SHARE Equity: Building the gold standard for equitable reproductive health care with direct support and digital infrastructure, SHARE Equity is leading the transformation to uphold health care as a human right. This national Black-led, community-rooted nonprofit is building a digital platform to help improve abortion access for people nationwide, regardless of location, income, or circumstances. The platform helps coordinate all aspects of the care experience for users. It helps users find abortion care that centers their needs and provides seamless financial and logistical support, all while prioritizing privacy and respect for bodily autonomy and choice.
Collaborative funds focused on reproductive well-being, including abortion
Abortion Bridge Collaborative Fund: This philanthropic fund supports organizations that provide, fund, and facilitate abortion access across the United States. An advisory council comprising leaders in the reproductive health, rights, and justice movements makes the collaborative’s grant decisions.
Collaborative for Gender + Reproductive Equity: This collaborative and funder community creates space for donors to learn together, amplify the impact of their giving, and accelerate change in five-year increments by funding organizations led by and for those most impacted by gender, reproductive, and racial inequities. It invests in state power-building, state courts, and new alliances that expand the tent of supporters working across abortion and contraception access, as well as gender and racial equity.
Women’s Funding Network: This global alliance provides strategies, research, and resources to support women’s foundations and gender-justice funders in the movement for equality, justice, and power for all. The network promotes a broad approach to reproductive justice that entails funding abortion access, birth justice, climate and economic justice, as well as freedom from state violence.
Organizations That Advance Reproductive Rights, Justice, and Field Building
Legal action and assistance
The Center for Reproductive Rights: As a global human rights organization of lawyers and advocates, the center works to ensure reproductive rights are protected in law as fundamental human rights for the dignity, equality, health, and well-being of every person.
If/When/How: This organization aims to transform the law and policy landscape so all people have the power to determine if, when, and how to define, create, and sustain families. If/When/How runs the Repro Legal Defense Fund to provide financial support for people investigated for or fighting charges related to their pregnancy or abortion.
The Lawyering Project: The project seeks to improve abortion access and uphold the rights and dignity of people seeking and providing abortion care. It offers pro bono legal assistance to abortion providers, abortion funds, practical support organizations, and researchers investigating access to medication abortion via telemedicine. The project also engages with courts to eliminate barriers to health services.
National Women's Law Center: The center fights for gender justice in the courts, in public policy, and in our society across the issues that are central to the lives of women and girls—especially women of color, LGBTQ people, and low-income women and families. Its Abortion Access Legal Defense Fund is designed to help people pay for certain legal expenses they are facing because they are abortion patients or supporters. That is, they are individuals who sought abortions or individuals and entities that helped someone obtain an abortion or information about abortion care.
Policy advocacy and research
Avow: The organization works to secure unrestricted abortion care and reproductive rights for every Texan by pursuing community building, education, and political advocacy.
Guttmacher Institute: The institute combines rigorous scientific investigation with sophisticated advocacy and communications to bring about evidence-based policies and programs. It has played an essential role in fortifying a facts-based foundation critical to the sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice movement.
Gynuity Health Projects: This organization develops and advocates for the use of scientific, clinical, and programmatic evidence in reproductive and maternal health. It works to make medication abortion care more attainable and economical without diminishing safety and efficacy.
National Institute for Reproductive Health: This advocacy organization fights for just and equitable access to reproductive health care nationwide. It works with state and local reproductive health, rights, and justice organizations, and other groups invested in the fight to pass laws that expand access to abortion and contraception and advance health equity.
Planned Parenthood Federation of America: The organization works with 49 Planned Parenthood affiliates and 19 million Planned Parenthood supporters nationwide to secure access to abortion and other sexual and reproductive health services. PPFA does this through organizing and advocacy to defend and expand reproductive rights and access at the state and federal levels; outreach and leadership development to engage Black and Latinx supporters, young people, and Planned Parenthood patients in the movement; and by supporting Planned Parenthood affiliates in litigation to block bans and restrictions on care.
Reproductive Freedom Alliance: Reproductive Freedom Alliance is a nonpartisan coalition of 23 Governors committed to protecting and expanding reproductive freedom across the United States, with the support of GovAct, a fiscally sponsored nonpartisan nonprofit organization. With the organization’s support, members of the Alliance share best practices, coordinate responses to threats and attacks on reproductive rights, and advance affirmative strategies to protect, strengthen, and expand access to abortion, contraception, and other forms of reproductive health care.
Reproductive Freedom Leadership Council: The Reproductive Freedom Leadership Council, a project of the State Innovation Exchange, is a national network of over 600 state legislators working to advance reproductive health, rights, and justice policy. The Council equips state legislators with research, technical assistance, strategy support, and connections as they fight to protect bodily autonomy and reproductive rights in state houses across the United States.
Society of Family Planning: The society advances just and equitable access to abortion and contraception by working to ensure practices and policies are grounded in science and center people whose access to care is constrained by systems of oppression. It seeks to cultivate a diverse and inclusive community to foster scholarly activity and leadership in family planning.
Community organizing and movement building
Americans For.: Americans For. (AF) is a national organization that reaches and cultivates untapped audiences to show them the overreach of extreme policymakers and offer them alternative solutions that disrupt and divert media silos and online radicalization pipelines (including the radicalization of women). AF is taking the model it previously used for Americans for Contraception and scaling it to respond to new values-based opportunities, including those in the reproductive space like contraception, IVF, and menstrual data privacy.
Galvanize USA: This national nonprofit supports women to use their civic power to create an America that works for everyone. Galvanize USA has created a unique digital community where women can learn about and engage on key issues. Additionally, Galvanize USA conducts research to understand where women are seeing disinformation and then provides targeted issue education to interrupt harmful, fear-based narratives.
In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda: This national/state partnership focused on lifting the voices of Black women leaders to secure reproductive justice for all women, girls, and gender-expansive individuals. It involves eight strategic partners: Black Women for Wellness; Black Women’s Health Imperative; New Voices for Reproductive Justice, Pittsburgh; SisterLove; SisterReach; SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW; The Afiya Center; and Women With A Vision.
Red Wine & Blue: Red Wine & Blue is a national community of 750,000 diverse suburban women mobilizing around key issues, including reproductive freedom. The organization offers training and resources to position women as organizers within their social circles. It also provides a community where members can share ideas and learn about what’s working for others. The organization has over 800 local affiliate groups nationwide, and it has year-round organizing teams in five states—Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
Religious Community for Reproductive Choice: A multi-faith, intersectional movement, the coalition seeks to remove barriers that impede individuals, especially those in marginalized communities, from accessing comprehensive reproductive health care with respect and dignity. It works through spiritual companionship, curating frameworks for faith leaders, and training the next generation of activists.
Reproductive Freedom for All (formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America): Reproductive Freedom for All organizes and mobilizes its four million members to fight for access to abortion, birth control, paid parental leave, and protections from pregnancy discrimination. It works at both the state and national levels to enact policies for reproductive freedom and hold anti-abortion extremists accountable.
Shout Your Abortion: Shout Your Abortion organizes campaigns, provides resources, and supports creative projects to help normalize abortion. The organization mobilizes people as advocates for abortion access, fostering collective participation in abortion access all over the country. As part of this, Shout Your Abortion encourages people to share their abortion stories, which is key to eradicating stigma.
UltraViolet: This feminist cultural and political change organization works to protect abortion freedom and destabilize the anti-abortion movement by countering abortion disinformation online, holding corporations and media accountable for misinformation and bias, and organizing to defeat abortion bans. Ultraviolet leverages education, advocacy, policy change, cultural campaigning, and mobilization of its one-million-member community.
We Testify: This Black-led organization works with people who have had an abortion to share their stories and campaign to address abortion stigma by changing the conversation about who has abortions and why. We Testify is dedicated to leading and representing people who have abortions, increasing the spectrum of abortion storytellers in the public sphere, and shifting the way the media understands the context and complexity of accessing abortion care.