Activist Groups

• New York Clinic Defense Task Force: Spun off from WHAM! in 1992 to deal specifically with defending women's health facilities from anti-choice attacks.
• ACT UP-Boston
• Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center
• FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting: A progressive media-watch group, publishes the magazine Extra! and produces the radio show Counterspin.
• Medical Students for Choice
• ACT UP/NY

Magazines

• The Urban Herbalist
• Body Politic magazine, PO Box 2363, Binghamton, NY, 13902
• On The Issues magazine

Videos

• Jane: An Abortion Service available from Juicy Productions, PO Box 268581, Chicago, IL 60626, Tel. (312) 409-8394 Fax (312) 942-1153
• Access Denied distributed by Women Make Movies, (212) 925-0606
• MacArthur Foundation Library Video Project has lists of videos relating to abortion and reproductive rights

Other Useful Web Sites

• The National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL)
• The National Abortion Federation (NAF)
• Planned Parenthood's National Home Page
• The National Organization for Women (NOW)
• The Feminist Majority Foundation



• Laurie Mann has a feminist Web page with a ton of resources, including an abortion rights page with the text of key Supreme Court decisions.
• The Progressive Pages has resource lists on reproductive rights and women's issues.
• The Institute for Global Communications has resource lists on women, health and queer issues, among other things. There's also a good listing of international women's groups.
• There's an immense women's health resource listing at the University of Michigan, which is pretty much focused on the medical model (there isn't even a mention of abortion), but has some good stuff on breast cancer and eating disorders, among other things.
• The emergency contraception hotline has a 24-hour number: 800-584-9911 (English and Spanish). They offer information on avoiding unintended pregnancy after unprotected sexual intercourse, as well as local medical providers to call.
• Feminist.com includes a list of women-owned businesses as well as the usual action alerts and political updates from non-profits such as the Ms. Foundation, Third Wave, Voters for Choice, the Center for Women's Global Leadership and more.
• The Purple Midwifery Page
• The Atlanta Reproductive Health Centre offers information on infertility, endometriosis, contraception, sexually transmitted disease, menopause, PMS, etc.
• Abortion Clinics Online
• Abortion Rights Activist Home Page
• Association of Reproductive Health Professionals
• Plymouth Area Communities Medical Access Network offers unlimited free Medline searches
• Centers for Disease Control
• American Medical Association offers searchable back issues of journals, including JAMA
• New York Online Access to Health
• The Virtual Nursing Center
• Medicine and Health Internet Resources
• Contract ON America
• 1996 Abortion Rights Voting Guide--how members of Congress voted
• EMILY's List Online
• The Greater Philadelphia Women's Medical Fund
• Women Organizing for Change

• The Ultimate Pro-Life Resource List
• All the *RIGHT* sites from People Link

• 9 to 5, The National Association of Working Women counsels women on sexual harassment issues. Their number is: 1-800-522-0925. You have to leave a message there and they call you back.
• The NOW legal defense fund (212) 925-6635 will send you a legal resource kit about sexual harassment for $5. Their address is: NOW Legal Defense Fund, 99 Hudson St., NY NY 10013.
• The Equal Opportunity Commision, in Washington D.C., (202) 663-4900, will send you a list of books, etc. for free on the issue.

Updated 8 October 1996