OpSave Episode 2: Clinic Advocacy - "Indie"cent Exposure: Ways to Support Independent Clinics

Author: Abortion Access Front
Published: Fri 26 Aug 2022
Episode Link: https://www.aafront.org/fbklive/

Welcome to Episode Two of Operation Save Abortion! Thanks for committing to this pod series and for making a commitment to learn more, act more, fund more, and raise hell more in this fight for abortion and bodily autonomy. This is NOT a pod series you listen to while cleaning out your closet. It’s about listening with friends and utilizing the activity and discussion guide designed for each episode to deepen your knowledge. The goal is helping you discover which part of abortion activism is right for you, so you can help build and grow community.

Each of the five episodes features amazing experts from the reproductive health, rights, and justice movements.

If you haven’t listened to Episode 1 already, please do so first! It’s your “Reproductive Justice 101” crash course. Abortion activism is just one part of this intersectional movement, so this first episode is designed to help ground your experience throughout this series and overall abortion advocacy in a Reproductive Justice Framework, making sure to center those most most effected by these harmful laws, and by following Black, Brown and Indigenous leadership as we fight for bodily autonomy.

Episode 2 is all about clinic advocacy. These providers are doing the work day in and day out to keep abortion access going. Without our love and appreciation, they’ll burn out. What does support look like? From financially supporting them with donations to buying items off of their Amazon Wishlists to escorting patients, helping with clinic repairs, to showing love with a thank you postcard, support can look a variety of ways and is key to keeping these clinics alive! So, throughout this episode, our amazing panelists are going to help you learn about independent providers, AKA the clinics doing most of the work that you may never have heard of. Show them some love below by filling out our vetting form so you can work with them in the future, checking the activist calendar, and buying them some goodies via our Adopt-A-Clinic program.

Questions? [email protected].

English transcript HERE.

Spanish transcript HERE.

GUESTS:

Moderator: Kwajelyn Jackson, Feminist Women’s Health Center / IG: @Feministcenter TW: @FWHC

Amanda Kifferly, The Women’s Center / IG: @thewomenscenters TW: @womenscenters

Kristin Hady, Toledo Abortion Center Escorts & Abortion Access Front / IG: @tac_escorts TW: @CCCEscorts

Jay Thibodeau, Abortion Care Network / IG: @abortioncarenetwork TW: @abortioncare

Dr. DeShawn Taylor, Desert Star Family Planning / IG: @Desertstarfamilyplanning TW: @DesertStarFP

EPISODE LINKS:

Operation Save Abortion Activity Guide [English]

Operation Save Abortion Activity Guide [Español]