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What are you waiting for? Check out all our Fund-a-thon resources at the link below, and help us hit that $60K jackpot! 💰
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We’re Raising $60,000 from now until May 31st! This helps WWAF: Fund abortions Distribute emergency contraception Provide practical support Promote pro-abortion policies Sign up to fundraise: Link in bio
Fund·a·thon is an annual peer-to-peer fundraiser for abortion funds across the country 🌵 Through May 31, WWAF will rally our community to raise $60,000 for abortion access in Nevada! This helps us do our work, from abortion funding to policy tracking.
Sign up today: fund.nnaf.org/WWAF2026
Announcing: Fund-a-thon 2026 Fund·a·thon (n): An annual peer-to-peer fundraiser for abortion funds across the country. From March to May, WWAF will rally our community to raise $60,000 for abortion access in Nevada. Learn how to get involved >> Sign up to fundraise: Link in bio
This just in: Fund-a-thon 2026 has officially begun, and we'll need your help to hit the jackpot 🏜️
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Places to Support These Nevada-local organizations uplift, support, and fight for our trans communities. Throw them follows, likes, and dollars today! Silver State Equality Henderson Equality Center Trans Support Reno ACLU Nevada
Policies to Watch NPR: Nevada governor backs ballot initiative restricting transgender athletes in school sports AP News: Nevada board moves to limit transgender athletes in school sports AP News: Judge rules Lombardo's trans athlete ballot initiative can proceed—but with new description ACLU NV: Do LGBTQ+ students have the same rights in private, charter, and public schools? No.
We at WWAF know that bodily autonomy and self-determination are things everyone deserves. We’re proud to join @lambdalegal.org and @aclunv.bsky.social in calling to #lettranskidsplay 🩶 All athletes (and really, all people) have a place in the Silver State.
Transgender Day of Visibility March 31 We honor and love our trans siblings here in the Silver State! However you’re celebrating today: Be loud, be proud, be you. Trans health justice is reproductive justice.
TL;DR Trans health justice is reproductive justice. Abortion isn’t just a cis-sue. Trans athletes deserve more than to be singled out for political gain. Let trans kids play! Trans women are women (duh). Every body deserves autonomy. Check out Silver State Equality, Henderson Equality Center, Trans Support Reno, and ACLU Nevada to learn more.
⚧️ HAPPY TRANS DAY OF VISIBILITY 🏳️⚧️
To our trans siblings across Nevada: We’re celebrating you today 🫂 Be loud, be proud, and be you—wherever you go. WWAF will be right behind you!
Doulas deserve our support. World Doula Week purposefully falls on the equinox and first week of spring, representing the return of fertility in countless cultures. This honors the long history of doulas as community health practitioners, and doulas’ special role in the cycle of life.
Further Reading: Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers (1972) Choice & Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare (2005) When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973 (1996) Babies Are Not Pizzas: They're Born, Not Delivered (2019) Visit wildwestfund.org for help accessing abortion care! Support our work with a donation at the link in bio.
We thank the doulas in our communities for their liberatory work 💐 Check out our sources for further reading, and head to our website to support our work.
To the doulas in our community: We see you. We love you. We're so grateful for all you do. Check out and support these local doula organizations: Doula Co-Op The Birth Collaborative Heart and Sol Collective Follow to get updates on future trainings and opportunities for support!
Want to support Nevada-local doula organizations? Send some love (in the form of follows, likes, and dollars) to our friends below:
💖 The Doula Cooperative
💖 The Birth Collaborative
💖 Heart and Sol Collective
Doulas are patient advocates. Having a doula in a medical setting means having an intermediary between you and your health care provider. Doulas work for you, not a clinic or hospital: they make sure your needs are met, your concerns are heard, and your desires are honored during your reproductive health experience.
Doulas improve health outcomes. Just by being present during birth, doulas have been found to:* INCREASE Rates of breastfeeding Use of safety precautions for the child Education & emotional support Wellbeing & satisfaction in the birthing process DECREASE Cesarean section frequency Low birth weight Premature labor Epidural use during delivery Mental health morbidities (PTSD) *Sobczack et.al., The Effect of Doulas on Maternal and Birth Outcomes: A Scoping Review (2023)
Doulas improve abortion access. Doulas also play a variety of roles* in abortion care: Providing information on how to access abortion Navigating access to care and practical support Physical & emotional support during an in-clinic abortion Example: Warning the patient to look away before viewing a mandatory** ultrasound Physical & emotional support during a self-managed abortion Example: Answering questions about bleeding or clotting while the patient passes the pregnancy *Heggie et.al., The role of doulas and community birth workers in abortion and contraception care: An international scoping review (2024) **In Nevada, we do not have a mandatory ultrasound requirement. However, some callers come to us from states where this is a requirement.
Want to learn more about what doulas do? Check out the below images! 💖
March 22-28 World Doula Week How can doulas impact abortion access? [Image of Pokey McPokeFace, the WWAF mascot cactus, holding a piece of chalk in front of a chalkboard) Learn more with the Wild West Access Fund! wildwestfund.org
World Doula Week began in 2011, and celebrates all doulas and doula organizations around the world. Dou·la (noun): A trained, non-medical professional who provides continuous physical, emotional, and informational support to a person before, during, and after childbirth to ensure a safe and empowering experience. While birth and postpartum doulas are the most common, abortion doulas, adoption doulas, and death doulas also do incredible work!
This week is World Doula Week! Doulas of all kinds (birth, postpartum, abortion, death, and more) make our reproductive health experiences safer, more accessible, and more personalized 💐
Dark blue green backdrop with a rainbow ending in fluffy clouds on both sides, with Pokey in the right cloud. Text reding: Public Service Announcement: Other People's Birth Control Choices Are None of Your F*cking Business. Birth Control is for Everyone.
Can we just stop pretending any of this is about safety or medical health? The ruling class doesn't want you to have birth control because they need a large working class, they don't actually give a shit if birth control is a decision for an individual and their medical professional. The end.
Very good point!
A new @ifwhenhow.bsky.social & @hrw.org report based on 62 interviews across 6 states reveals how state-mandated parental notification laws effectively give parents or judges “veto power over a young person’s abortion decision,” violating young people's human right to bodily autonomy.
Cactus cartoon with on an orange diamond with a witch costume. Magenta border, dark green background with stars and bats. Text reads “Happy Halloween, Nothing’s Scarier than SNAP benefits expiring.”
Food is a human right. The government is quite literally made up and is playing a dangerous game with children’s health.
Cactus cartoon with on an orange diamond with a witch costume. Magenta background, pink border, with stars and bats. Text reads “Happy Halloween, Nothing’s Scarier than an Unfunded Abortion.”
Abortion should be universally covered by insurance, having to find money to pay for abortions is scary!
New Jersey Abortion Access Fund (NJAAF), Northwest Abortion Access Fund (NWAAF), @riabortionfund.bsky.social, and @wildwestfund.bsky.social.
Photo of an ice cube on fire on a light peach/beige background with text in blue: “Fund Abortion, Not Deportation.”
Fuck ICE. That’s all.
They do not!
Yellow T-shirt with green block letters “Fuck the Supreme Court We’re Having Abortions.”
In advance of the upcoming SCOTUS decisions, we’re releasing a new version of our fan-favorite “Fuck the Supreme Court” shirt. Bonfire.com/f-scotus-1/. All proceeds matched!
An administrative stay was just issued for the 1985 parental notification law. It WILL NOT go into effect on April 30. We will update with the new timeline as we know it.
Screenshot of tweet by Dr. Ezzideen, a Palestinian physician in Gaza. IT reads, "Yesterday, they brought in a child, seventeen months old. A boy, though too light, too still, too quiet to carry that word with any truth. His mother held him like one holds a memory, something fading. His limbs hung loose, soft, as if the will to resist gravity had long since been abandoned. He did not cry. He did not speak. He only looked past us with eyes wide open, searching for something that is no longer here. She told us he had been walking. Once. Not long ago. His steps were unsteady, but full of promise. Then, eighteen days ago, he began to stumble. A few days later, he couldn’t stand. Now, he just points to his legs, not in pain, but in bewilderment. As if he knows something has left him. As if his own body has become a stranger."
Screenshot of the final paragraphs of a tweet by Dr. Ezzideen, a Palestinian physician in Gaza: Because the truth is unbearable: this child is not dying from a rare illness, or a sudden wound. He is dying from absence. From the steady erosion of what makes a life livable. From the spaces between explosions where the world forgets to look. And this war, this war is not only in the noise. It is in the silence that follows. In children who forget how to walk. In mothers who run out of stories to tell. In fathers who cannot meet their sons’ eyes. There are no bandages for this. No injections for despair. We wrote his name in our records. We tried not to tremble. But, what medicine heals a world like this?
Our presence is needed.
The absence of attention and action against the genocide and state violence Palestinians endure must be challenged at every turn.
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Parental notification will not and can not create a healthy home environment where one doesn’t already exist.
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Many minors already consult their parents, making this law duplicative. For many others, abuse, incest, safety threats, and a myriad of other concerns keep them from disclosing their abortion. Minors can make these decisions for themselves.
This is based solely on control and not on safety. Minors deserve bodily autonomy.
Parental notification laws generally require written notification from the provider 24-48 hours before the minor can receive care.
Nothing changes today. It’s possible something will change before 4/30/25
On April 30, Nevada’s decades-old parental notification law will go into effect, requiring parents & guardians of minors be involved in their abortion decisions.
New York just became the first state to use their shield law.
Shield laws protect abortion providers who provide care to patients in other states via telehealth.
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