NARAL PRO-CHOICE VIRGINIA FOUNDATION
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Mission Statement
Through education, grassroots outreach, and advocacy, the NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia Foundation works on the state level to support and protect, as a fundamental freedom, a Virginian's ability to make the full range of personal decisions about her reproductive choices and health. This includes the right and ability to access contraception, abortion, accurate sex education, prenatal and maternity care, and support for healthy pregnancies and families.
About This Cause
Many Virginians – particularly young people, low-income individuals, and communities of color – lack access to comprehensive reproductive health care services and accurate reproductive health and rights information. Virginians must be empowered to know their rights, protect their health, and make the best reproductive decisions for themselves and their families. NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia Foundation's programs address barriers that keep Virginians from accessing reproductive health information, healthcare services and choices, particularly in areas that disproportionately impact under-served communities. We research and document the reproductive rights and health challenges Virginians face and develop strategies to address them. Our work includes: - Policy Education and Advocacy: We inform policymakers, the media, and the public about the state of reproductive rights in Virginia and about the negative impact of anti-choice policies that restrict access to safe, legal abortion care and other reproductive health services. We advocate before policymakers in Richmond to encourage them to reject anti-choice attacks and to expand access to legal abortion, birth control, reproductive health care, and sex education. - Protecting Abortion Access: NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia Foundation has been a leader in the fight to ensure regulations on Virginia's women's health centers that provide abortion will be based on medical evidence and public health, not on an agenda to make it as difficult as possible for clinics to remain open. - Information and resources: Ensuring that Virginians can access medically-accurate, supportive information and resources regarding their full range of reproductive decisions and options, and exposing so-called "crisis pregnancy centers" that deceptively promote an anti-choice agenda rather than offering real support and accurate information to women facing unintended pregnancies. - Community Outreach and Organizing: Our grassroots organizers are building connections in Virginia communities and engaging a broad base of women and men to become informed, empowered advocates for Virginians' reproductive rights and health care access. They are expanding the visibility of our issue in communities, through tabling, presentations, and other outreach to educate the public about the current status of reproductive rights in Virginia and the threats and opportunities we are facing. We are also developing a grassroots network of pro-choice leaders across the state who help spread our messages even further and engage their communities in taking action. - Campus Outreach and Organizing: Engaging students at Virginia colleges and universities in activism and advocacy for reproductive rights and health care access, both through participating in our statewide activities and by pursuing campaigns on their own campus.