How To Support Abortion Rights In Ways You Never Thought Of

Do you want to help to make sure women and pregnant people have access to safe and legal abortions? Lizz Winstead with Abortion Access Front gives you tips on the surprising ways you can assist.

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Just tell us about what the abortion access front had been doing as you know literally I guess. So literally what we have been doing is we have been traveling around the country. We've been to 45 states, every shitty state you never want to go to. And we'd put on comedy and music shows and create this platform for the providers and the activists in these towns to be able to talk to our audiences. And then we set up booths within the space so that you have three 400 people in a room who didn't know what was going on before and then they sign up so that they can hear directly from the clinics and the activists what needs to be done locally. And then they can take action with them. and then we also do this wild sort of habitat for humanity thing. Where my team at abortion access front is made up of not only comics and producers but also activists who have mad skills like gardening and painting and like fixing. so we go to a clinic, especially these small community clinics. And we'll fix their fences or paint their whole clinic or do their gardening. Because what folks I don't think to realize in this larger picture of oppression is that if you provide abortion care in a hostile community you can't get somebody to come and mow your lawn fix your fence do [ __ ] that any small business would have no problem getting to do right? So at our shows, after we've sort of done this like a short-term fix we tell the audience what they need on the regular and 99% of the time we hook up that plumber or that landscaper with the clinic. and then they understand that activism a lot of times is parking your company van in front of a clinic and providing that care saying I'm happy they're in my community and I'm happy to provide service for them.