Chicago Abortion Fund: The Chicago Abortion Fund (CAF) boldly affirms a person’s right to bodily autonomy. They provide financial, logistical, and emotional support to people seeking abortion care in Chicago, in Illinois, and the Midwest. [Website] [IG]
Chicago For Abortion Rights: Chicago For Abortion Rights (CFAR) is an intersectional coalition of individuals, activist groups and community members united in the fight for abortion rights for every person. [Website] [IG]
Chicago South Side Birth Center: The Chicago South Side Birth Center addresses inequities in birth outcomes by providing culturally centered midwifery care alongside families and within the community to promote wellness and abundance in whole health. [Website] [IG]
Chicago Volunteer Doulas: Chicago Volunteer Doulas (CVD) connects pregnant and birthing people to free and low-cost compassionate labor, postpartum, and pregnancy loss support and information rooted in Black feminist wisdom and healing. Led by principles of birth justice and anti-racism, CVD works to eliminate stigma, shame, fear, morbidity, and mortality among Black women and all those marginalized within pregnancy and birth care. [Website] [IG]
Mamas Activating Movements for Abolition and Solidarity (MAMAS): MAMAS is a fiery feminist of color, abolitionist reproductive justice collective hailing from the heart of Chicago and working to amplify and build power among mother-survivors of state violence. MAMAS are unapologetically confronting and dismantling systems of state violence – including prisons, war, colonization, imperialism, and migrant injustices. One Chicago collective, Mothers of the Kidnapped, is dedicated to caring for those who are caring for survivors of police torture. [Website] [IG]
Midwest Access Coalition: MAC envisions a world in which all people have access to safe, free, legal abortions wherever they live. As a practical abortion fund, MAC helps people traveling to, from, and within the Midwest access a safe abortion by assisting with travel coordination and costs, lodging, food, medicine, and childcare. [Website] [IG]
Midwest Access Project: Midwest Access Project is a nonprofit organization incorporated in Illinois. MAP fills a unique need by offering training in comprehensive reproductive health care including abortion care, contraception, miscarriage management, and pregnancy options counseling. MAP trainees include physicians, nurses, advance practice clinicians, residents, and students who do not have access to full scope reproductive health training through their schools or jobs. [Website] [IG]
NDoula Community Alliance: NDoula Community Alliance is a community building organization addressing quality of life gaps within Chicago communities by increasing access to patient-centered, equitable, integrative healthcare. They approach health equity with a specifically inclusive, trauma-informed, and violence prevention lens. NDoula works to build a Chicago where all patients and birthing people benefit from informed decision making among a culturally reflective care team. [Website] [IG]
Northwest Indiana Anti-Sexist Action: A coalition of groups and individuals in Northwest Indiana that advocates for healthcare access and reproductive justice for all genders, including abortion rights. [Website] [IG]
Reproductive Transparency Now: Reproductive Transparency Now (RTN) advances reproductive justice by raising awareness about anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers through direct action, education, and advocacy. [Website] [IG]
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