RELEASE 9/27/24: New Initiative Launches to Bolster Support for Local Abortion Funds
The Frontline Repro Freedom Lab Provides Resources to Abortion Funds in Red and Purple States; Calls on Philanthropic Institutions and Donors to Do the Same
In response to escalating challenges facing local abortion funds in the aftermath of the fall of Roe v. Wade, a new initiative, the Frontline Repro Freedom Lab (FRFL), has launched to provide critical funding and resources to abortion funds in neglected states. In an exclusive published this week inThe New Republic, FRFL announced its first lab, which includes partnerships with the Arkansas Abortion Support Network, Prairie Abortion Fund and the Wild West Access Fund of Nevada.
9/26/24: THE NEW REPUBLIC: How Abortion Funds Are Feeling in an Election-Year Money Crunch
Overshadowed by ballot measures and the presidential race, mutual aid groups that pay for people’s abortions are teaming up with state advocates to better their bottom lines.
A small group of funds is trying a different way to expand their capacity, and hopefully their budgets. Prairie Abortion Fund is one of three abortion funds—alongside Arkansas Abortion Support Network and the Wild West Access Fund—getting strategic support and financial assistance from the Frontline Repro Freedom Lab, or FRFL, a new incubator backed by women with decades of experience in state-level advocacy.