How Abortion Providers Would Like Your Help

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How You Can Help

Befriend and offer support to your own local abortion provider. At least be cognizant of when something big HAPPENS and respond sympathetically.
Call your doctor. Ask him/her if he/she performs abortions. If not, ask why not, and consider finding another practitioner. Only go to doctors who provide abortion care. If she/he does perform abortions, thank them and ask how you can support them.
Look for ways to fund and support independent providers--(this ultimately should be your small town docs) in towns all over the US.
Call your local hospital. Ask if they perform abortions. If not, ask why not, and organize to pressure them to add this vital service. Do not support or go to any facility (certainly do not give money) which does not support/DO abortion.
Be visible with your pro-choice sentiments. Put a bumpersticker on your car, wear a pro-choice button, talk about the women you know - yourself, your sisters, your mothers, your friends - who have had an abortion.
Wear something symbolic on your lapel which makes people ask you about it--and hence share your prochoice sentiment.
Call the media and politicians. Ask them to speak out on the connections between anti-choice rhetoric and violence against women and abortion providers.
Vote early and vote often for prochoice candidates--cultivate and provide funds for prochoice candidates as well.
Clearly question ALL candidates on the position of choice and then let their (and your) sentiment be known.
Read the newspaper everyday for abortion news (it takes about two minutes to do an abortion search).
Write letters to your local newspaper sharing your outrage and concern over abortion issues. List your address and phone number.
Call your insurance company and find out if they cover abortions through the second trimester. If not, consider switching insurance companies. Write them and let them know how you feel.
Speak up for women on welfare, national health care, accessible child care, sexual freedom, and an end to racism, violence against women, and attacks on immigrants.
Attend pro-choice visibility actions.
Raise money and support for the prochoice groups and candidates of your choice.
Join a pro-choice group!
Say in polite company "I don't mean to be single issue BUT..."
Encourage your friends and family to get involved by joining you in one or more of these actions.

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last updated July 20, 1998