Bridge Collective

Our hearts are with all affected by today's decision, and we will update when we have more information. In solidarity, TBC.

While continuing to be focused on reproductive justice & access to important care for Texans, we are also undertaking substantial consideration to ensure the organization & our volunteers are safe from punitive legal action in this new landscape for abortion rights.

With very heavy spirits this morning, we are pausing our abortion support services & taking time to evaluate our operations in light of Jackson Women’s Health v. Dobbs changing almost 50 years of settled law related to reproductive and constitutional rights.

Hi! Hello! Let's talk about this Mifepristone REMS news! If this is your first time hearing about what a REMS is, well, I've got your explainer here: twitter.com/DrDGrossman/st…

Give us the fucking pills. And say abortion, Joe! We compromised for 50 years. I’m over it!

BREAKING --> the FDA just announced they’re lifting the outdated and unnecessary in-person dispensing requirements on #medicationabortioncare. This is a great first step towards ensuring equitable access to care. 🧵

🚨 I'm getting reports from pharmacists across #Texas -they are being directed to not fill prescriptions for misoprostol, mifepristone, or methotrexate until they verify that the meds are not for induced #abortion. #SB4 is harmful to ALL of us, even w/ #SB8 still in effect 1/

I talked to soooo many people on the @TEAFund helpline who said they’d *just* left their abuser and needed an abortion because without one, they’d be tied to them for the rest of their life.

Rest in Power, Bell Hooks. You inspired so many, including our own team. "No level of individual self-actualization alone can sustain the marginalized and oppressed. We must be linked to collective struggle, to communities of resistance that move us outward, into the world.”

Nonbinary people and trans men need abortion care, and they deserve to be a part of the abortion rights conversation. Every abortion story is valid. 🏳️‍⚧️ lambdalegal.org/blog/us_202112…

White women benefitted from slavery and benefit from racism. Abortion bans are racist and disproportionately harm Black women. Co-opting the language around slavery is Not A Good Look when the abortion bans we experience now are a residual result of slavery and structural racism.

Abortion care providers and activists have been preparing for this moment for years, and they're certainly not giving up now. mashable.com/article/aborti…

Despite 2021 being a challenging year, we’re proud to say that we’ve funded more abortions than ever. Check out our 2021 year in review to learn more about our impact!

The holidays are a time to get together with loved ones. #SexEdforSocialChange

9) get over yourselves and that fucking handmaid symbolism. 10) seriously, look around. Your idea isn’t new, it’s one white women have every time something happens, and many people have been working on this SINCE ROE & HYDE! rewirenewsgroup.com/article/2019/0… truthout.org/articles/the-a…

8) take a look around you to see what’s happening in your local community. NY, for example, isn’t perfect on access. I house and drive people coming to DC for later abortion care they can’t get in NY. NYC gives money to @NYAAF because people can’t afford abortions. Look around.

5) use your platform and reach to elevate local abortion funds and people doing the work rather than opining about the catastrophe of losing Roe. 6) know that there are safe ways to have an abortion without traveling, such as medication abortion (1 Mife + 4 Miso) 7) read & learn

3) people in “Blue states” have to travel too. The “red state liberal saviorism” is tiring to organizers and providers on the ground. 4) if this is the first time you’re having a convo on traveling for abortions, please don’t lead it. Listen to those who have been doing it.

Reminder that abortion funds already exists and are not underground!