disrupting the pregnancy to prison pipeline
However you prefer to plug in, there are people organizing and resources to help you get started.
Keeping ourselves and our communities safe
Ways to plug in
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Distribute information and help set the norm that everyone in your community knows their rights
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Create opportunities for community-led decriminalization work that could include mutual aid, learning together, and culture shift work. Start with Interrupting Criminalization’s Toolkit for Mapping community ecosystems of collective care and find the ways and actions that inspire you.
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Use this guide to support someone close to you experiencing Pregnancy Criminalization
Apply to be a Clinic Escort or Volunteer with Feminist Center for Reproductive Liberation
Make and distribute post-abortion care packages (Abortion Access Front)
Set up a community info station (Shout Your Abortion)
Share this hub for abortion resources (You Always Have Options)
Learn about the legal risks of supporting people seeking abortions (I need an A, If/When/How)
Resources
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Report on the fight to reimagine support for pregnant people who use drugs (Movement for Family Power)
A harm reduction toolkit on pregnancy and substance use (Academy of Perinatal Harm Reduction)
A young mother’s guide to surviving the system (Young Women’s Freedom Center)
The Informed Consent Act (Informed Consent NY Coalition)
Immigrant Family Preparedness Guide for Georgia Families
Birth Rights Resource (Pregnancy Justice)
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Seeking reproductive healthcare: advice, links, and information
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The Repro Legal Helpline
The M+A (Miscarriage and Abortion) Hotline
ARC-Southeast Healthline
Repro Legal Defense Fund: donate, learn more, or get funding
Demanding more from our government
Ways to plug in
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Demand your representatives support the Reproductive Freedom Act
Hold your local electeds accountable to improving access, making conditions better for incarcerated Georgians, combatting disinformation, and ensuring the community knows their rights
Ask your representatives to defund Anti-Abortion Centers: learn more about the Fake Clinics Suck campaign
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Understand how bad bills start with stigma and criminalization with this Unpunish Pregnancy Policy tool from Patient Forward
Learn more about emerging campaigns and calls to action in Georgia: sign up to get Amplify’s Action Alerts
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Find your repro advocacy home while plugging into statewide campaigns
SisterSong (Atlanta)
SisterLove (Atlanta)
SPARK Reproductive Justice Now (Atlanta)
Middle Georgia for Choice (Macon)
Find your Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity (URGE) campus chapter
ARC -Southeast (Georgia)
Resources
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Find and reach out to your Elected Officials
Track bills in the Georgia legislature
Track bills directly impacting Reproductive and Sexual Health
Use and share these Georgia Legislator RJ score cards (coming in 2026)
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Alliance for Justice’s The Advocacy Playbook for Gender and Reproductive Justice
If/When/How’s online course Lobbying and Administrative Advocacy
Interrupting Criminalization’s zine Block & Build But Make it Abolitionist
ending a culture of punishment
Ways to plug in
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Share out the messaging from Movement for Family Power on family policing as a reproductive injustice
Check out Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity’s (URGE) Culture Shift work
Share You Always Have Options social posts
Sign on and share the Drug Policy Alliance’s call to uproot the drug war from the child welfare system
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Heart to heart conversations (National Network of Abortion Funds)
Make a new zine or print and share one (Shout Your Abortion)
Make some stickers or distribute these (Plan C)
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RSVP to the next Breaking Silos in RJ Teaching Series on disrupting pregnancy criminalization (and watch the rest!)
Choose your own adventure from Movement for Family Power
Engage in ongoing Political education with Critical Resistance
Plug-in meetings with SPARK Reproductive Justice
Discover Activism 101 with Reproductive Freedom for All
Become a fellow with Feminist Center for Reproductive Liberation
Resources
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An affirming language guide from Transgender Law Center
When Fetuses Gain Personhood: Understanding the Impact from Pregnancy Justice
A resource for media and organizers aimed at transforming the narrative about migration from Interrupting Criminalization
Teaching RJ in the classroom
Proactive abortion messaging from Reproductive Freedom for All
Narrative guide for advocates on communicating about abortion criminalization
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Learn about storytelling projects or share your own story:
Abortion Storytelling Project Feminist Center for Reproductive Liberation
Emerging Voices URGE
#MyStoryOutLoud Advocates for Youth
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The intersecting politics of abortion, pregnancy, and family policing (A Keynote Address by Dorothy Roberts)
Learnings from national examples of organizing for Informed Consent laws (Movement for Family Power)
Abortion, Activism, and RJ Field Guides (Shout Your Abortion)
Introduction to Family Policing Abolition (UpEND Movement)
Principles of perinatal harm reduction (Academy of Perinatal Harm Reduction)
Abolition and the Family Regulation System (Critical Resistance & Movement for Family Power)
On Reproductive Justice and Abolition (SPARK RJ)
The Rise of Pregnancy Criminalization (Pregnancy Justice)
Abortion Decriminalization is Part of the Larger Struggle Against Policing and Criminalization (If/When/How)
moving from facilitator to resister
Ways to plug in
For providers and those working within healthcare and social services
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Adopt these basic guidelines for healthcare providers from Pregnancy Justice
Navigate CAPTA reporting requirements for prenatal drug exposure with If/When/How
Learn with Interrupting Criminalization
Understand the connections between information gathering to surveillance and policing
Build community with other providers in Georgia with the Reproductive Health Access Network
Understand Informed Consent with Movement for Family Power
Check out this short overview from Ms. Magazine
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From Interrupting Criminalization:
13 Principles for Health Care Providers to Interrupt Criminalization
Health care strategy consult
Beyond Do No Harm resource documents
“How Leadership Can Combat the Harm of Abortion Bans” from Provide
A Resource on countering criminalization for hospital and health care administrators from National Partnership for Women & Families
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Understanding ACOG’s (American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists) Policy on Abortion
ACOG’s Reproductive Health Care for Incarcerated Pregnant, Postpartum, and Nonpregnant Individuals
Stories from medical providers interrupting criminalization
“Abortion Restrictions Threaten All Reproductive Health Care Clinicians”
“A Different Vision: Centering Love Not Punishment for Families Affected by Substance Use”
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Please see community resources above, and these recommendations from ACOG
Resources
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Unpunish Pregnancy Policy Tool from Patient Forward
Confronting Pregnancy Criminalization: Guidelines for Policymakers
H.B. 481 and what’s possible (Sistersong & ACLU)
Organizing to Decriminalize Healthcare (Movement for Family Power)
Resisting Criminalization of Reproductive Autonomy: Policy Dos and Don’ts (Interrupting Criminalization)
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Resources for Journalists Reporting on Abortion (Physicians for Reproductive Health)
15 Points to Consider When Covering Abortion, the Supreme Court and a Potential “Post-Roe World” (Guttmacher)
Reporting on Abortion Later in Pregnancy
(Who Not When)Stylebook and Coverage Guide: Pregnancy, Contraception, and IVF (Contraceptive Access Initiative)
Fairness Media Guide for Covering Women and People of Color without Bias (Ultraviolet)
Guide to accurate and compassionate communications on drug and alcohol use during pregnancy (Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health)
Resource for Journalists Reporting on Reproductive Health Care & Transgender People (Mabel Wadsworth Center)
A Language Guide for Journalists and Communities: Abortion and Reproductive Care (Transgender Law Center)
**Recent memo (2025) on reporting on pregnancy outcomes in Georgia