CAF in the News

  • Abortion rights demonstrators march into downtown following a rally in Union Park on May 14, 2022, in Chicago, Illinois.

    Podcast: Abortion Funds Are Preparing for a Storm. To Help, “Get in Where You Fit in.”

    “‘We have to be thinking and dreaming and planning really expansively … because when Roe falls, band-aid solutions are not going to be enough,’ says Meghan Daniel, a support coordinator with the Chicago Abortion Fund. In this episode of Movement Memos, Daniel and host Kelly Hayes talk about the end of Roe, abolishing police and prisons and how funding abortions builds power.”

    TRUTHOUT, MOVEMENT MEMOS – 50 minutes

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  • Article: The Next Major Reproductive Freedom Movement Has Begun—and It’s Creating Something Way More Powerful Than Roe

    “Completely valid if you’re feeling shocked and gutted by the SCOTUS ruling. Just know that abortion activists on the ground—those who’ve spent years funding, facilitating, performing, and agitating in support of abortion—have prepared for this moment. With input from movement leaders in all 50 states, here’s how to find your place in the fiercely hopeful world they’ve been building.”

    COSMOPOLITAN

  • Podcast: One Million Experiments

    On this episode, the 1ME squad talks with Alicia Hurtado of the Chicago Abortion Fund, a movement stalwart that has been funding and supporting abortion access in Illinois and beyond for over 30 years. Alicia breaks down the relationship between abortions and criminalization, the steps we can all take right now to make abortion access possible in our communities, and the ways in which fighting the stigmatization of this necessary health care procedure can impact how we understand care as a whole.

    ONE MILLION EXPERIMENTS

Throughout this year, we advocated for our callers, spoke about the movement, and highlighted the work of abortion funds in articles, podcasts, and news segments. Below, we've featured some of our favorite pieces from 2022

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