Fund Abortion - It's a Human Right.

Abortion is healthcare. Join me in making abortions more accessible to Tennesseans.

A donation of any amount will go a long way! If you are able to setup a recurring monthly donation, it would make a real difference for the organization's ability to plan on future funding.

Abortion Care for Tennessee is a non-profit organization that is working to remove barriers and increase access to reproductive and sexual health care including safe abortion for all people.

We envision a Tennessee where everyone, regardless of race, gender, class/income, language, ability, documentation, and sexual identity are free from reproductive control, oppression, and stigma. We envision a Tennessee where everyone’s human right to bodily autonomy is honored and protected. We envision a Tennessee where sexual and reproductive care, including abortion, is deemed health care and is accessible.

Tennessean's Current Legal Landscape:

• Tennessee began enforces a trigger ban, which prohibits abortion at all stages of pregnancy with limited medical emergency exceptions.
• Tennessee law retains gestational bans at six-weeks, twenty weeks LMP (late menstrual period), and after viability. It also prohibits D&X procedures (intact dilation and extraction- The procedure is used both after miscarriages and for abortions in the second and third trimesters of pregnancy) and abortions sought for reasons of sex, race, or Down syndrome, a provision that a Sixth Circuit panel allowed to go into effect. Tennessee law continues to include requirements that pregnant people must undergo a mandatory forty-eight-hour waiting period, a requirement that was reinstated by the Sixth Circuit; biased counseling; an ultrasound; and prohibitions on public funding, and private insurance coverage. The state prohibits local governments from expending funds to assist someone in accessing abortion, specifically targeting funding for out-of-state travel. It continues to require that a parent, legal guardian, or judge consent to a minor’s abortion.
• Tennessee retains targeted regulation of abortion providers (TRAP) laws related to facilities and admitting privileges, which are both permanently enjoined, and reporting. Tennessee law continues to restrict the provision of abortion care to licensed physicians and explicitly prohibits physician assistants from providing medication abortion. Tennessee also restricts providers from using telemedicine for the provision of abortion care. Providers who violate Tennessee’s abortion restrictions may face civil and criminal penalties. The Hyde Amendment is strengthened by the funneling of public resources to anti-abortion fake clinics, Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs), medication abortion is over regulated.

Every abortion restriction, and every barrier and delay, adds cost to an abortion process that is already way too dicult. Those extra costs are hardships that fall hardest on the people who are already struggling to pay for an unexpected abortion.

No one is expendable. Access to abortion shouldn’t be determined by your race, your zip code, the size of your bank account, your documentation status, or your gender identity.

Abortion has always existed and will continue to exist. It is pivotal healthcare that cannot be delayed. It is not in the shadows. Abortion care is healthcare that needs to be accessible, funded, and recognized.

It is time to be loud and support the people that have abortions and the medical professionals that ensure abortion access happens every day. Fund local abortion clinics to keep our clinics open, donate to your local abortion funds to ensure people have access, support and funding, tell your own abortion story, and listen deeply to the stories of people you love.

Whether you live in Texas, New York, Ohio, or California, we all need access to abortions in our communities. Bans in states like Tennessee target communities that have survived systemic oppression. All people deserve access to the abortion care they need, when they need it, in the community they live in and trust.