Backline offers a confidential space for women and their loved ones to talk openly about pregnancy, parenting, abortion, and adoption. The Talk Line is available toll free, seven days a week. Backline takes calls from women and their loved ones all over the United States who are in the process of making decisions, or have already made decisions, about pregnancy. Backline understands that these decisions can be complex, and they support you no matter what you choose to do.
Backline Talk Line
Phone: 1.888.493.0092
Hours:
Monday - Thursday
5:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m., Pacific Standard Time
Friday - Sunday
10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m., Pacific Standard Time
► www.AbortionConversation.com
Articles on tips for teens and parents for talking about abortion, emotional and spiritual health after abortion, and the pro-choice movement. ¾ www.Scarleteen.com Sex Ed for the Real World Scarleteen is the highest rated online sex education site for teens and young adults. Run by and maintained by young adult volunteers around the world, Scarleteen is built around what users ask for and takes an informal approach which teens and young adults can relate to.
► www.4Exhale.org
Exhale offers a free and confidential, After-Abortion Talkline that provides emotional support, resources and information. The talkline is available to women and girls who have had abortions and to their partners, friends, allies and family members. All calls are completely confidential and counselors are non-judgmental. Website has free supportive ecards to send in support of women who have had an abortion. Spanish-speaking counselors are available every Wednesday on request. Cantonese-, Mandarin-, Vietnamese- and Tagalog-speaking counselors are available on request.
Toll-free talkline (available in the U.S.): 1.866.4 EXHALE
Toll calls outside of the U.S.: 1.510.446.7977
Monday – Friday:
5 p.m. – 10 p.m. PST
Saturday – Sunday:
12 p.m. – 10 p.m. PST
► www.Adoption.com
► www.OpenAdoption.org
► Overground Railroad
The Overground Railroad helps to support, transport, accommodate, and provide escorts for women to other states if they must travel between states to obtain safe and legal abortions. For information, contact National Organization for Women and Unitarian Church Ministers.
▪ www.NOW.org - National Organization for Women Chapters exist across country in every state, usually in large cities.
▪ www.UUA.org - Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations.
► www.ProChoice.org
National Abortion Federation Hotline Phone: 1.800.772.9100 (Mon – Sat: 9:30 am - 5:30 pm)
► www.ProChoiceResources.org
Hershey Abortion Assistance Fund – loans to women and teens. Phone: 1.888.439.0124 (Wednesdays 5:00pm-7:00pm CST)
► www.WRAAP.org
Women’s Reproductive Rights Assistance Project provides money to low-income women for emergency contraception and abortion. WRAAP services are provided free of charge in clinics all over the United States.
Phone: 1.323.223.7727
► www.CAIRProject.org
Community Abortion Information and Resources - call this 800 number to find a clinic or find money to help pay for an abortion. Phone: 1.888.644.CAIR (1.800.644.2247)
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► www.NNAF.org
The National Network of Abortion Funds is a United States based network of local groups who help women pay for and travel to abortion services.
Phone: 1.617.524.6040 Fax: 1.617.524.6042 Emaiclass="underline" INFO@NNAF.org
► AbortionClinicDirectory.com
The Abortion Clinic Directory is a directory of United States abortion clinics and information on surgical and medical abortion.
► GYNPages.com/ACOL/International.html Listing of Abortion Clinics around the World
► ProChoice.org
The National Abortion Federation’s website helps individuals find the clinics in the USA and Canada that abide by standards governing quality of care.
National Abortion Federation operates a toll free hotline at:
1.800.772.9100 in the US
1.800.424.2280 in Canada.
► MarieStopes.org.uk
Marie Stopes International is the United Kingdom’s leading provider of sexual and reproductive health services. Marie Stopes also has projects around the world in over 40 countries providing safe abortion and women’s health services.
Abortion Information and Appointments: Phone (UK): 0845.300.80.90
– Misoprostol and mifepristone are approved for use with a prescription in the United States. Importing drugs without a prescription is illegal in the United States, however federal authorities have generally allowed the practice.[547] U.S. Customs stopped seizing mailed prescriptions from Canada in October 2006.[548] Misoprostol (Cytotec™) is reputed to be less difficult to obtain than mifepristone and is still 85-90% effective when used alone (see Medical Abortion). Arthrotec™ is a pharmaceutical that contains misoprostol and a painreliever and is sold as a treatment for arthritis and is often available without a prescription.
Medical abortion prescriptions can sometimes be obtained from a sympathetic doctor or pharmacist. Sometimes pills are available over-the-counter in ethnic markets in the United States and Mexico, and they are often advertised for sale online.
Warning! - Online sources of medical abortion pharmaceuticals are suspect. WomenonWeb.org analyzed pills obtained from Abortion-Pill-Online.com and found pills advertised as mifepristone did not contain mifepristone.[549] Some sites, like drugdelivery.ca are reported to have taken women’s money, but the pills never arrived.
Suspected scam websites are listed: www.womenonwaves.org/article-445-en.html
If you order pharmaceuticals from an online pharmacy make sure the online pharmacy has at least a contact phone number and a contact address (not just an outsourced call center), the website has a reputable domain name (not an ISP address), the shipment is trackable by a recognizable service (UPS, DHL, USPS, etc.), and SSL encryption is used.
(Medical Abortion cont.)
For some current sources of medical abortion pharmaceuticals read the comments on the Mother Jones article "Mail-Order abortion (but be wary of sources reputed to be scams): http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2006/11/mail-order-abortions
Also, look at the Topix forum titled "Cytotec, Misoprostol": http://www.topix.com/forum/drug/cytotec
► Manual Vacuum Aspiration Procedure Education:
▪ www.Hesperian.org
▪ www.WHO.int
► Networking:
▪ www.SisterZeus.com will help you connect to women interested in forming self-help groups in your area.
▪ National Women’s Health Network
514 10th Street NW, Suite 400
Washington, DC 20004
Emaiclass="underline" nwhn@nwhn.org
▪ The Women’s Health Voice
Emaiclass="underline" healthquestions@nwhn.org
1.202.628.7814
Monday – Friday 9AM-5PM (EST)
▪ Network for Reproductive Options (Oregon)
Online: NROptions.org
1.541.345.5702
“Self-help Slide Show” Presentation
Emaiclass="underline" NRO@efn.org
► Supplies:
▪ Antibiotics (may be regulated by U.S. Customs)
▪▪ Pet stores – Fish diseases are treated using human antibiotics.
547
Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report July 12, 2006, http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=3& DR_ID=38440 (accessed June 25, 2008).
548
John Carreyrou, “U.S. to Stop Seizing Canadian Medicine,”
549
Women on Waves, “Warning!! False medicines offered for sale on Abortion-pill-online.com,” http://www.womenonwaves.org/article-445-en.html (accessed November 15, 2008).