Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project (RRFP) is a volunteer-based abortion fund and reproductive rights advocacy group serving Virginia! We provide practical and financial support for abortion services in our own & surrounding communities.
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RRFP Benefit Show April 6th!!
Check out this benefit show tomorrow- a full night of music and stand-up to benefit the RRFP!!
Music by
DJ Insomniacrobats
Proceed The Eye
Machine Chop Inc.
Merrin Karas
Enemy Exorcism
Outlaw Drive In (Members of Cherry Pits)
Jason Kusterer (Of Dirt Merchant)
Bare Thoughts
Comedy by
Patrick Miller
Leo Mairena
Jason Kusterer
Trish Blaine
Clay Shoaf
Benjamin J. Bramen
Jesse Jarvis
Updates on band/comedian time slots will be added later.
Can't make it? Still want to help? No problem!
You can donate here:
http://bowlathon.nnaf.org/rightsensible
Check out the event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/793585587412503/
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If you need Plan B, here’s a printable $10 off coupon.
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Today is the International Day Against Police Brutality.
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Oh Dang!! We're only $26 away from $11k! That would be close to a 3rd of our overall goal of $36,000. Donate to your favorite fundraiser to help push us over today!!
http://bowlathon.nnaf.org/BranchParticipants.asp?BranchID=100
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Tomorrow, Friday March 11th 2016, at 7pm, at Gallery 5 (200 West Marshall Street, Richmond VA), there will be a benefit show featuring Magnus Lush, Doll Baby, Venus Guytrap, and Gray Magic, to benefit the Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project. The cost is $5-10 at the door. From the event description:
“Gallery 5 & Elbow Room RRFP Fundraising Team "The Roomies” present a night of all local indie/alt bands to raise money for the Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project, RVA’s very own all-volunteer, grassroots abortion fund. Every dollar you give goes a long way toward making sure everyone in our community has access to a full spectrum of reproductive choices!“
For more information and to RSVP, see the link.
You can donate directly to the Roomies fundraising team through this link.
#elbow room#rrfpva#rva#abortion#abortion funds#abortion access#reproductive justice#rj#rva shows#bowl16
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Ken Cuccinelli, former Virginia Attorney General, is being considered for state Supreme Court. Tomorrow, March 9th, at 9am, at the Virginia State Capitol (1000 Bank Street, Richmond VA), there will be a protest against his consideration for the position.
During his time as AG, Cuccinelli: filed a lawsuit as an attempt to thwart the Affordable Care Act; attempted to compel law enforcement to investigate the immigration status of anybody they stopped for any reason; sent out a letter telling state universities that non-discrimination policies protecting LGBT individuals were illegal; investigated a climate researcher for fraud because he disliked the researcher’s conclusion that climate change is real; and was one of the strongest anti-abortion figures in Virginia.
For more information and to RSVP, see the link.
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Morning After Pill for HIV
I think that people forget that condoms protect you from more than just pregnancy.
And there is no morning after pill for HIV.
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We have officially Kicked off Bowl-a-thon season!! Register TODAY to support abortion access in VA at bowlathon.nnaf.org/rrfp & if you have any questions, email us at [email protected] !!
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We have officially Kicked off Bowl-a-thon season!! Register TODAY to support abortion access in VA at bowlathon.nnaf.org/rrfp & if you have any questions, email us at [email protected] !!
#rrfpva#rva#va#bowlathon#bat16#abortion funds#abortion access#rj#reproductive justice#pro choice#pro abortion
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Hey, did you know that the Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project organizes a fundraiser every year where you can form a team and raise money directly for people who are unable to afford access to abortion health services? Do you need an excuse to throw a grits wrestling event or a dance party? As reasons go, this is a pretty good one. If youre interested at all please come to the kick off party tomorrow! There's gonna be snacks, y'all. SNACKS.
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Positive Abortion Stories
If you google “abortion stories,” most of the results will be horror stories pushed by pro-life websites. If you’re curious to read stories from people who had positive experiences with abortion, here is a list of positive and heartfelt abortion stories to read.
geeksandmisandry: Abortion story
protego-et-servio: My Abortion
love-pro-choice: Abortion story
provoicesupportblog: My Story (The long version)
proudly-pro-choice: My abortion story
midnight-glamlife: Abortion Story
rottenbrainstuff: I Had An Abortion
herpesandhappy: My Abusive Relationship, Pre Abortion, and Post Abortion
oh-snap-pro-choice: Late-term abortion
My Abortion at 23 Weeks in New York Times
What a 22 ½ Week Abortion Looks Like at Alternet
This Is What My Abortion Was Like at Birdee
My Jewish Abortion at Huffpost Religion
My Abortion Made Me Happy at Slate
I Am Grateful for My Abortion at Feminspire
On Abortion, Race, and the Power of Story at Strong Families
A reddit user writes a letter to the fetus she aborted, explaining why she’s #sorrynotsorry at Blue Nation Review
Reddit: Before I got an abortion, all I could find were horror stories online that terrified me. Here is my story.
Reddit: I had an abortion when I was fifteen years old. I have finally found a safe place to speak of my experience.
Reddit: UPDATE: just found out I’m pregnant, really scared and I’m getting an abortion.
Reddit: My experience with a very late term surgical abortion
Reddit: Sharing my very positive abortion experience.
Reddit: My (positive) surgical abortion story, and a thank you
Reddit: Trust your body, not just a Dr./ My positive abortion experience
Positive medical abortion story 1
Positive medical abortion story 2
Positive surgical abortion story 1
Positive surgical abortion story 2
Woman shares non-graphic video of her positive abortion experience
Collections of stories
#ShoutYourAbortion YouTube channel
My Abortion, My Life
Our Bodies Ouselves
The Abortion Diary Podcast
1 in 3 Campaign
Not Alone
I’m Not Sorry
Project Voice
Thanks, Abortion
NARAL: Stories About Abortion
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As a member fund of the National Network of Abortion Funds, hell yeah.
Trust Black Women Statement of Solidarity with Black Lives Matter
http://www.trustblackwomen.org/solidarity-with-black-lives-matter
Our Mission and History
The mission of the Trust Black Women Partnership is to develop a strong network of Black women’s organizations and individuals mobilized to defend our human right to make abortion and family planning decisions for ourselves. We work to counter the growing anti-abortion movement in the African-American community and defeat race- and gender-based campaigns and legislation that limit abortion access for Black women. We educate our communities, legislators and leaders of color about Reproductive Justice (RJ) issues from Black women’s perspectives. We also stand for the human right of every Black person, regardless of their gender identity or expression, to end a pregnancy, continue a pregnancy, build a family, and raise children with health, dignity, and freedom from violence. After five years of building power and organizing, we are now re-launching Trust Black Women, and we are stronger than ever.
The Reproductive Justice movement, created in 1994, the Trust Black Women Partnership, created in 2010, and the Black Lives Matter movement, created in 2012, were created because the lives of Black people were in peril. All were born out of a demand for the self-determination and liberation of Black people in this country. And all were born because of the leadership of Black women.
Our Shared Struggle
For more than twenty years, Reproductive Justice advocates, grounded by an intersectional power analysis and commitment to centering the most marginalized, have articulated the pressing need to value Black women and families, respect the decisions of Black women, and assure the basic human right to determine our own destinies. This encompasses the ability to prevent or end a pregnancy, to live and build and raise a family with dignity, and to have the resources to do so. Through and through, we have asserted the value of Black lives by fighting systemic racism, economic injustice, state-sanctioned violence, and the denial of our reproductive self-determination.
Fundamentally, Trust Black Women, rooted in Reproductive Justice, and Black Lives Matter are movements to affirm the value of Black lives, to protect the dignity and autonomy of Black bodies, and to dismantle the systems that harm and oppress Black communities. As we recognize our common values, we stand stronger against those who would co-opt our language or strategies to use against Black women, or any member of our communities. As we learn from the past, we must recognize the harms of de-centering Black women and the need to support Black women’s leadership and well-being.
Trust Black Women and Black Lives Matter assert — unapologetically — that Black people must be at the center of progressive work for social justice and moral progress.
Standing in Solidarity
As Black women leaders, activists and supporters of the Reproductive Justice movement and members of the Trust Black Women Partnership, we offer our formal solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. The United States has a long history of over-policing and over-criminalizing Black bodies that started with the forced removal of Africans from our homeland. Ever since we were brought here against our will, this country has been a hostile birthing environment for Black women, and a dangerous place to raise Black children. This nation has yet to prove that Black Lives Matter, and it has yet to prove its ability to Trust Black Women.
Trust Black Women is grateful to Black Lives Matter for building the movement for Black lives to a critical tipping point: no longer can the public or our political leaders ignore our struggle. We also recognize the role of Reproductive Justice and Trust Black Women in contributing to this tipping point. We walk in one another’s footprints even as we stand side by side.
We offer to the Movement for Black Lives the analysis that brought Trust Black Women into being: an analysis that centers Black women, low wage workers, LGBTQ people, and those living at the crossroads of these identities. We offer to the Movement for Black Lives our commitment to hold gender justice as dear as racial justice, with Reproductive Justice as the core of both these aspirations.
We seek community, fellowship, and connection with Black Lives Matter, and we know that we must stand together or fall separately. Our lives are at stake. To realize a future where Black Lives Matter, we must Trust Black Women. To Trust Black Women is to affirm that Black Lives do Matter.
So we say, in the same breath, in the same freedom song: Trust Black Women. Black Lives Matter. Together we march toward justice for us all.
Black Women Led RJ Organizations/Projects:
Ancient Song Doula Services
Colored Girls Hustle
Echoing Ida
Women on the Rise Telling HerStory (WORTH)
National Network of Abortion Funds
In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda
Reproaction
SPARK Reproductive Justice Now!
Women Engaged
Access Reproductive Care-Southeast
SisterLove, Inc.
Southern Birth Justice Network
New Voices for Reproductive Justice
Missisippi In Action
SisterReach
Women With A Vision
National Birth Equity Collaborative
The Afiya Center
Families for Justice as Healing
Black Women for Wellness
The Body is Not An Apology
Black Feminist Future
Family Preservation Collective
Black Women’s Blueprint
Milwaukee Reproductive Justice Collective
Black women leaders represented the following allied organizations:
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Feminist Women’s Health Center
Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice
National Advocates for Pregnant Women
This solidarity statement was also signed on by individual artists, healers, theologians, academics, policy analysts and legal representatives.
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Register TODAY to support abortion access in VA atbowlathon.nnaf.org/rrfp & if you have any questions, email us at [email protected] !!
We'll also be at Gallery5 this Monday to talk over Bowl-a-thon tips and tricks: https://www.facebook.com/events/830590387066951/ #bowl16#rrfp
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Make no mistake
Pro-choice people talk a lot about positive abortion experiences because it helps to destigmatize the procedure, but if your abortion experience was:
- negative
- painful
- the worst decision you ever made
- a mix of conflicting emotions
Your experience and feelings are valid too. Don’t ever think that there’s something wrong with you for feeling the way you do. Abortion isn’t the right choice for everyone, regardless of your opinion on it. Emphasizing positive experiences can make it seem like negative or mixed ones should be silenced, but if you ever want to share, don’t be afraid to. No one’s experience is the standard.
If you ever need someone to talk to, I am always here for you. ❤️
-V
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Terrified
I am having an abortion this Thursday I messaged you not too long ago about it thanking you for the confidence. As the day gets closer, I’m becoming more afraid. More afraid something is going to go wrong, and I won’t ever be able to have kids if I choose to have them. Trying to find positive articles and information about the abortion I’m getting is so difficult. The searches always end up in judgment and at some pro-life video or website. I’ll be 12 weeks 5 days when I go for the procedure and I feel as though I’m getting a limb amputated because my google searching has just led me to being totally terrified. I feel like I have no clue what’s going to happen. Can you help me relax my mind? Please? I can’t remember the last time I was this scared. Thank you so much if you can!
Here’s my personal abortion story. I was about 12 weeks along. It’s all in that link.
To summarize: They’ll do an ultrasound. Some places will ask if you want to see it, some places have to show you due to law. You may also watch a video, so you “know what you’re doing.” You’ll also have a chance to talk to a counselor, to make sure this is for sure the choice you want to make. Once all of that is done, they’ll take you into the procedure room and have you get ready. A nurse will stay with you while you wait for the doctor. In my experience, this nurse stayed by my side the whole procedure and held my hand. The doctor did a pelvic exam, numbed my cervix, and used dilators to open my cervix. Think of really intense menstrual cramps (this is the worst part of the whole procedure, so while uncomfortable it’s not fatal;) it can be really uncomfortable. When my doctor inserted the suction and began the aspiration part of the abortion, it didn’t hurt, but it did feel strange. The best way I can think to explain it is the suction you feel when you put your hands tightly together and pull them apart, except down in your lower tummy. It went very quickly from there.
The whole procedure itself took less than 10 minutes. They watched over me in an after-procedure room for half an hour to make sure everything was OK and then sent me home with some pain reliever and some medication to prevent infections.
Oh! And if you have someone to go with you for the abortion, you’ll be able to get heavy-duty pain reliever, which may help with the worst of the dilator cramps (which is seriously the worst of the whole procedure, but definitely doable so don’t worry too much about that part.) I couldn’t get any anesthetic, because I was alone during my abortion and driving myself home.
The article in the link is far more detailed, since I wrote it write after my abortion with the intention to help other people out. Feel free to check out the rest of my Wordpress blog, too. A lot of it has to do with abortion.
Also, some links I try to provide for people are generally these:
Not Alone - Started by Emily Letts. A website where people share their positive abortion stories.
1 in 3 Campaign
I Had An Abortion Experience Project - (This one may not be helpful for you, specifically.) Not everyone has a positive abortion experience. This experience project includes everyone.
Thanks, Abortion! - Another place where people share their positive abortion experiences. I don’t think this one has been updated for awhile, though.
Planned Parenthood is a good place to start for information. (I’m not sure if you’re going to PP or elsewhere for the abortion.) ((Oh, and you definitely will not be infertile after an abortion. Plenty of people can attest to that.))
I hope those helped you out. If I think of any other things to add on, I’ll be sure to reblog this post with additional information.
If any of our followers have any other stories to add in, feel free to add on! The more, the better.
-Mod Al
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Our annual fundraiser kicks off on the 22nd, so start getting your teams together now!
And this year, more than ever, we need your help spreading the word about the bowl-a-thon, so PLEASE SHARE
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http://m.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/03/1408341/-Psychologist-openly-admits-he-trains-police-officers-to-shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later S-I-G-N-A-L B-O-O-S-T
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