NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS
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Mission Statement
Texas Equal Access Fund provides funding to low-income people in the northern region of Texas who are seeking abortion and cannot afford it, while simultaneously working to end barriers to abortion access through community education and shifting the current culture toward reproductive justice.
About This Cause
We have three programs serving two objectives: abortion funding and abortion access advocacy. Our primary program funds our Helpline, which is currently open two days a week. As we grow our advocacy efforts, our commitment remains first and foremost to ensuring that we can continue to fund abortion, and work to increase our ability to fund abortion. Part of our advocacy also includes the CEP, or Client Engagement Program, where we follow-up with our funding recipients to see if we can assist with any barriers to abortion access, provide case management, and engage them to develop a leadership pipeline to provide a voice for their intersecting experiences. In 2019 we also added an additional layer to the CEP with our abortion doula program. The final program, and one of which we are very proud, is our Clinic Escort Program. This robust program is 100% managed by volunteers and grew out of a response from the clinics with which we partner. In 2019, we included an additional layer of clinic support and began a legal observation program to ensure that the protesters stay in their lane so the escorts can focus on clients, also managed by volunteers. Just under 50% of our callers and clients already have at least one child; approximately 70% of the people we fund identify as black or Latinx. We work in conjunction with and supplemental to abortion care providers- both Planned Parenthood and non-Planned Parenthood- to improve access to abortion care in Texas. Our callers range in age from 14 to 44 years, and they come to us for a variety of reasons; the one thing they all have in common is that they’re facing financial barriers to their reproductive rights and reproductive health access. We have never been able to fund all of our callers and are unable to meet all of our needs in north Texas for abortion care access. On the advocacy front, we are opening community dialogues about reproductive justice and the ways that radical, economic, and gender justice intersect around the struggle for bodily autonomy and everyone’s desire to create the families they want. In 2019 TEA Fund, along with other partner organizations, went to Austin to advocate at the legislature for Rosie’s Law, a law that would allow Medicaid in Texas to be used for abortion care. We also met with representatives in their home districts in the DFW metro to keep them informed of our work and to seek their input in ways in which they can help in the reproductive justice arena. We also started a working group called Repro Dallas with local partner organizations to try to get local municipalities and counties to create a Rosie’s Resolution, which seeks help from counties and cities in reducing barriers to access. Finally, last year we started a speaking group of former clients to speak out and share stories about their abortion experiences called PATH- Post Abortion Truth and Healing. PATH volunteers are instrumental in helping public officials in understanding why they should support our work. In addition, TEA Fund partners with Lilith Fund, Frontera Fund, Afiya Center, West Fund, Jane’s Due Process, Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice, NARAL ProChoice Texas, the Texas Organizing Project, ACLU Texas, League of Women Voters, and Trust.Respect.Access to engage, educate and enjoin our regional, state and national political delegations on behalf of positive reproductive justice legislation.