After the whiplash of a controversial 2021 Texas law and the Supreme Court’s overturning of federal abortion protections in 2022, a nationwide network of...
The Chicago Abortion Fund has spent more than $535,000 to help Texans travel out-of-state for abortions this year
That ban held until 1973, when a case involving a Dallas woman who was denied an abortion made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, resulting in the landmark Roe vs. Wade ruling that established a constitutional right to abortion.The Texas Legislature chipped away at Roe over the next 50 years, striking a decisive blow in September 2021 with the “Texas Heartbeat Act,” which enabled Texans to sue anyone involved in providing an abortion after the detection of a fetal heartbeat.
For about eight months, Fund Texas Choice stopped providing Texans practical support. They sent their funds to clients in other states through the Midwest Access Coalition with the hope of freeing up the Midwest fund’s capacity to help Texas callers. Like other abortion organizations, the Chicago Abortion Fund grew rapidly over the last few years. In 2019, now-executive director Megan Jeyifo, 40, was running the hotline with only volunteers while serving as co-chair of the fund’s board. Now the fund has 16 full-time staffers and an annual operating budget of more than $6 million from donations and grants.
Even with these guarantees, the work requires scrappiness and an acceptance that no day will look like the next.
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