SAAN WAS FOUNDED BY AND FOR STATE-BASED ORGANIZATIONS TO TACKLE THE CHALLENGES OF A POST-ROE NATION
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While national attention shifts from crisis to crisis, state-based reproductive freedom organizations are doing the work that determines whether millions can access abortion care. SAAN was created to ensure those frontline leaders are never fighting alone.
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SAAN optimizes the knowledge-exchange of locally-based organizations with Members in states that range from abortion ban to abortion access.
DENIED ACCESS BY THE NUMBERS
THE Good NEWS
People are speaking—and the results are clear.
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Across the country, voters have rejected unpopular abortion bans at the ballot, enshrining protections in their state constitutions.
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And, in states leading on access, advocates are pushing even further, defending providers and ensuring medication abortion reaches patients across state lines.
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Working alongside coalition partners, policy allies, and countless volunteers and supporters, SAAN members are driving this progress and proving that reproductive freedom is worth fighting for -- and winnable.
WE'RE AT A CRITICAL MOMENT IN THE FIGHT FOR ABORTION ACCESS AND BODILY AUTONOMY.
OUR COMMUNITIES FACE COMPOUNDING ABORTION AND HEALTHCARE BANS, SURVEILLANCE, AND CRIMINALIZATION. WHAT WE ARE FIGHTING FOR IS SO MUCH MORE THAN ANY COURT CAN OFFER.
AGAINST ALL ODDS, TEXAS ABORTION ADVOCATES ARE ENSURING OUR COMMUNITIES CAN NAVIGATE THE WEB OF OBSTACLES TO ACCESS DIGNIFIED CARE.
IT IS THIS PERSISTENCE AND COMMITMENT TO OUR COMMUNITIES THAT WILL RESTORE ACCESS IN THE STATE.
raven e. Freeborn
Mobilized more than 1,500 Missourians from 20+ organizations to defend the will of voters at the Capitol, trained 200+ grassroots leaders to fight redistricting attacks on direct democracy, and drove the majority of testimony behind new legislation expanding emergency contraception and birth control access.
Distributed over 2,000 free reproductive health kits across Houston through community distribution centers and partners, while building internal capacity and organizing infrastructure to reach more Texans with trusted, judgment-free resources.
Built new statewide coalitions countering the weaponization of religion against reproductive freedom and advancing abortion care as core to health equity, while working with local partners and lawmakers to hold crisis pregnancy centers accountable and restore balance to the state courts.
Shaped legislative strategy on four critical reproductive health bills, secured a seat at Seattle's first city council briefing on threats to abortion access, and published a multilingual Abortion Access Guide connecting patients statewide with safe, evidence-based care.
Strengthened legal protections for abortion patients and providers across New England, advanced policies that safeguard access to care, and convened regional leaders to build a coordinated reproductive freedom movement.
The only state in the South to pass abortion-forward legislation, repealing decades of restrictions, expanded provider authority to offer abortion care, and increased insurance coverage while continuing to build statewide support for reproductive freedom through community organizing.
Leaders in the campaign enacted the Reproductive Freedom Amendment in Ohio, the seventh state to protect abortion access. Also included access to contraception, fertility treatment, miscarriage care, and continuing pregnancy care.
