Reproductive Equity Now
2024 Impact Report
Table of Contents
Our Year At A Glance
200+
Calls to Our
Abortion Legal Hotline
~15K
Users Visited Our New England Abortion Care Guide in 2024
500K+
Impressions Across
Social Media Platforms
A Letter From Our President
Rebecca Hart Holder
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Repro Equity Now Community,
It has been an incredibly difficult end to 2024, and I know many of you are reeling from the results of the election. It is difficult to sugarcoat the threats a second Trump administration poses to abortion access and reproductive freedom nationwide. Trump will have the power of the federal government at his disposal, and we know that the end game for his supporters is a national abortion ban. However, at this moment of crisis, I take solace in the fact that Reproductive Equity Now’s playbook is unchanged. We know that the path forward is in the states—and we will continue to use the inherent power of state and local advocacy to push back against federal encroachment. Thankfully, Reproductive Equity Now is prepared for this moment. We spent the past year building our power, our movement, and our legislative record to ensure we are ready to take on the battles ahead—big and small.
I often get asked why we should invest in access regions like New England at this moment of crisis. The answer really is pretty simple. Here in New England, we have the bandwidth, the capacity, the ability to innovate, and the deep relationships to go on offense and expand access to care for patients across the country. Our policy solutions, educational and legal resources, and coalition work have delivered real results—results that will be absolutely critical in a second hostile Trump administration. New data from WeCount has shown us that year after year, even post-Dobbs, the number of abortions continues to rise nationwide. That is in part because of the fearless, creative innovation of New England advocates at Reproductive Equity Now. As a direct result of our advocacy work, Massachusetts clinicians are providing thousands of medication abortions to people in states with extreme abortion bans.
Our power as an access state lies in our ability to anticipate and prepare for anti-abortion attacks. In 2022, shortly after the fall of Roe v. Wade, Reproductive Equity Now advocated in Massachusetts to pass protections for reproductive health care providers who offer care to patients from out of state. In 2023, we launched the Abortion Legal Hotline to provide free, legal advice to these patients as well as MA-based providers offering abortion, including via telehealth. And this year, we learned that thanks to these protections and the support of our Hotline, thousands of abortion pills are being sent to patients in banned or restricted states every month.
Knowing the power of free legal support, and in the wake of the presidential election, we expanded the Abortion Legal Hotline to Connecticut to ensure providers and patients can access or provide care with confidence. We proactively worked with the Connecticut Attorney General and trained dozens of the top lawyers from across the state to activate a legal pipeline of support to combat the chaos and confusion that the Trump administration is bound to sow. In 2025, this Hotline will continue to be a lifeline for people seeking care, from near and far.
And in New Hampshire, amidst an anti-abortion trifecta in the Governor’s office and two legislative chambers, we know we have our work cut out for us. Education is key to building our collective power around repro equity in the Granite State. That’s why we created Voting for Repro Equity—Now! this fall, a voter guide and accountability tool to ensure New Hampshire voters have the information to cast their ballots for repro equity candidates. We have held organizing events across the Granite State, and screened Preconceived, a documentary on the dangers of anti-abortion centers, to nearly 200 people in Portsmouth and Concord.
While Donald Trump poses an existential threat to reproductive freedom at the national level, we are coordinating our advocacy efforts across New England to build a regional bloc for abortion access. Amidst an uncertain national abortion access landscape, we know that partnership, movement building, and communication amongst advocates will be critical to protect and expand access to care. That’s why Reproductive Equity Now brought together New England repro advocates for our first New England Regional Convening this December. We collaborated to develop strategies to protect care in the region, and created lasting connections to bolster our work to advance repro equity.
In times of great duress, we can find strength in supporting our communities. The volunteers, donors, advocacy partners, and staff that make up this movement have created tangible impact on individuals’ lives and our care ecosystem. We save us. And at this moment of crisis, we need YOU in this fight with us. There is simply too much at stake to do this without you.
Thank you for being our partners, and for the work we’ll do together.
In gratitude,
Rebecca Hart Holder
Updating Our Strategic Plan To Reflect Regional Growth
Last September, we expanded Reproductive Equity Now from Massachusetts into New Hampshire and Connecticut, creating the first regional organization dedicated to advancing reproductive equity through state-based advocacy. Over the last year, we have built deep relationships with providers and advocates across the region, advanced major repro equity wins in all three legislatures, and worked to elect pro-repro candidates up and down the ballot.
This year, we updated our organization’s three-year strategic plan to meet this moment and our new regional mission. We are charting a course to not only defend abortion access across New England, but go on offense by creating a three year roadmap to win. As the landscape for abortion access becomes more hostile every day, we will remain nimble in the face of uncertainty, with bold solutions to expand access to care across the region and beyond. Take a look at our updated mission and vision from our strategic plan below!
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Reproductive Equity Now works to make access to the full spectrum of reproductive health care a reality for all people in New England regardless of their race, ethnicity, income, zip code, gender, age, immigration status, ability, sexual orientation, or religion. Advancing reproductive equity and justice and eliminating barriers to abortion care are central to our mission.
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We envision a world where everyone is able to equitably access the full spectrum of reproductive health care, including abortion, free from stigma, discrimination, and political or policy barriers.
Reproductive Equity Now:
Education Across New England
As we move forward with our new strategic plan, our focus is on three primary areas of impact: educating, activating, and advocating. Here’s how we’ve expanded our work to EDUCATE New Englanders about reproductive equity.
Resources & State of Care
We make sure people in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Connecticut know their rights to access abortion care and where to find comprehensive, legitimate reproductive health care. Here’s how:
Expanded Reproductive Equity Now’s Abortion Legal Hotline to Connecticut
This November, we brought our Abortion Legal Hotline to Connecticut. The Nutmeg State is now the second state in New England to have the Abortion Legal Hotline providing free and confidential legal advice to abortion providers and patients. Learn more about the resource!Launched an Ad Campaign in MA on the Abortion Legal Hotline
We’re making sure Bay Staters know about the Abortion Legal Hotline and how to use it by splashing the town with digital, transit, and billboard ads. This ad campaign had more than 2 million impressions in Massachusetts.Translated Our Resources Into More Languages
This year, we translated our Abortion Care Guide into Spanish and began providing translation services for our Abortion Legal Hotline in more than 25 languages. Equitable access to information is critical in a post-Dobbs world, and we’re making sure our resources are accessible to non-English speakers.
You can read coverage of our work here:
✱ NBC News | Connecticut Launches Hotline for Legal Advice About Abortions
✱ Connecticut Public Radio | On heels of Trump reelection, CT reproductive rights advocates announce new abortion care hotline
✱ Fox 61 | Connecticut launches free abortion legal support hotline
Supreme Court Clarity
We’re helping people across New England decipher how the Supreme Court affects their rights to care. Here’s how:
Organized a Grassroots Briefing on Medication Abortion Case
When the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case challenging the availability of mifepristone in April, we pulled together our regional repro community for a grassroots briefing on the stakes of the case and how to protect our care. We had six organizations from across Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire join us to host the briefing, and had over 100 community members come to learn from Repro Equity Now as trusted leaders.Launched Toolkits for Our Advocacy & Legislative Partners on Case Updates
When our care is attacked by anti-abortion forces, it’s critical that our movement has a united message and front. That’s why we distributed toolkits with clear information, messages, and sample posts on the Supreme Court mifepristone and EMTALA cases to our partners to make sure we were aligned in our communications.Senate Field Hearing on Abortion Access
This May, we joined Senator Ed Markey and Senator Elizabeth Warren to provide testimony at a U.S. Senate Banking Hearing on the state of abortion access in Massachusetts, and the threat posed by continued attacks on medication abortion at the national level.
Our Work Exposing Anti-Abortion Centers
Reproductive Equity Now is committed to ensuring abortion seekers across New England have access to legitimate, unbiased reproductive health care—that includes educating the public about anti-abortion centers who engage in dangerous and deceptive practices.
Held Six Screenings of Preconceived Across the Region
This year, Reproductive Equity Now held six screenings of Preconceived, a new documentary on the dangers of anti-abortion centers, throughout New England. We traveled from Concord, NH to Westport, CT to Great Barrington, MA to Martha’s Vineyard, and beyond to educate hundreds of community members on the international network of anti-abortion centers.Published an Anti-Abortion Center Organizing Toolkit
Reproductive Equity Now created a toolkit, available in print and as an E-book, on how anti-abortion centers operate, where they are located in New England, and how to counter any misinformation in your community.Provided Support to Massachusetts’ Public Education Campaign on Anti-Abortion Centers
Reproductive Equity Now provided support to Massachusetts’ public education campaign on the potential dangers of anti-abortion centers.Lawsuit Filed Against Reproductive Equity Now By Anti-Abortion Center, Your Options Medical
In August, an anti-abortion center in Massachusetts, Your Options Medical, filed a lawsuit against the Reproductive Equity Now Foundation concerning our work to shed light on the potential dangers of anti-abortion centers. Through this lawsuit, Your Options is attempting to silence our organization and prevent us from exercising our First Amendment protected right to free speech. We will not be intimidated by this lawsuit and will always fight for New England patients and their ability to access the reproductive health information and care that is right for them.Wrote an Op-Ed About Replicating Public Education Efforts Across the Nation
Our president, Rebecca Hart Holder, penned an op-ed in Inequality.org about how advocates can use public education campaigns to combat any deceptive practices engaged in by anti-abortion centers: “Fortunately, we have a powerful tool to fight back. It begins with public education. Public education is key to public health, and protected states can play a critical role to ensure residents have the tools and resources they need to make informed reproductive health care decisions, and avoid dangerous and deceptive anti-abortion centers.”
Reproductive Equity Now: Advocacy
This year, we had major repro legislative wins across Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire. Take a look at a few of the laws we passed:
Massachusetts
In Massachusetts, we helped pass an historic maternal health care package that expanded access to midwives and birth centers, a law to ensure parentage for LGBTQ+ parents, expanded access to contraceptives and prenatal vitamins, major funding for child care in the state, and an additional investment in abortion access and funds.
New Hampshire
In New Hampshire, we successfully staved off several proposed extreme abortion bans, advanced support in the New Hampshire Senate for medication abortion access, and worked with partners to expand equitable access to Intrauterine Insemination (IUI).
Connecticut
In a short legislative session, we were thrilled to work with Connecticut partners to pass expanded paid sick leave for workers across the state. We also co-wrote an op-ed with Lt. Governor Susan Bysiewicz about how Connecticut will continue to prioritize protecting and expanding access to reproductive health care.
Reproductive Equity Now:
Activating New Englanders
This year, we activated hundreds of New Englanders to organize their communities for reproductive equity.
Community Organizing
We bring repro equity advocates to the table and help them drive their own organizing efforts locally.
Grew Our Abortion Access Advocates Program
Reproductive Equity Now hosted 12 monthly trainings for our Abortion Access Advocates program, a core group of volunteers who are ready to lead locally for reproductive equity. These trainings have covered a wide range of topics, from Reproductive Justice 101, to Understanding the Supreme Court Cases on Abortion, to the Intersectionality of LGBTQ+ Justice and Abortion Access, to Election Debriefs, and more. We’re now up to nearly 600 Abortion Access Advocates across the region – join us today!Held Roe’d Shows Across the Region
Our team continued to hold Roe’d Shows across the region, a series of organizing events aimed at educating New England residents on how to access abortion care and how we can mobilize our communities around repro equity. We’re connecting people with the tools and resources they need to access care, or helped a loved one find that care.
See What Our Partners in Connecticut and New Hampshire Have to Say About Our Expansion:
Electing Repro Equity Champions
We send repro equity leaders to state legislatures across New England, laying the groundwork for our bold repro legislative agendas.
New Hampshire Voter Guide and Ad Campaign
With 400 State Reps, 24 State Senators, and 5 Executive Councilors, Granite Staters had a lot on their ballot this year. Our team created a New Hampshire voter guide, Voting for Reproductive Equity – Now!, to help New Hampshire voters understand the stakes of this election for abortion access, the voting records of their elected leaders, and how they can vote for repro equity up and down the ballot. We also ran video and digital native ads on the resource, which received nearly 2 million impressions.
2. Massachusetts and Connecticut Election Success
We’re proud that 140 out of 148 Repro Equity Now-endorsed candidates in Massachusetts won their races this November. In Connecticut, 71 out of 96 endorsed candidates will head to the State House in Hartford for the start of the 2025 session.
Our team is proud to be building a pipeline of reproductive equity champions!
3. Mobilizing for Repro Equity Candidates
This election season, we mobilized around repro equity candidates across the region, holding numerous post-carding events, kicking off canvasses for Senator-elect Dylan Fernandes and State Rep. Marjorie Decker, hosting two message trainings for candidates to talk about abortion on the campaign trail, and joining our Planned Parenthood partners in New Hampshire for a Day of Action.
Convening Stakeholders for Movement Unity
This December, Reproductive Equity Now brought together repro leaders from 26 organizations from all six New England states for our first regional reproductive equity convening.
We spent two days synthesizing strategy, sharing insights from battles in each state, and building a collective plan to ensure New England remains a beacon for abortion access and reproductive equity.
2024 Events and Organizing
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Postcards & Pints at Trinas
We joined with volunteers to write postcards encouraging voters to cast their ballots for repro champs.
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Boston Pride for the People
Abortion rights = trans rights = human rights! We celebrated the LGBTQ+ community, and recommitted ourselves to the fight for bodily autonomy for all.
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New Hampshire Pride
We tabled at Concord Pride this summer to remind folks that reproductive equity is not possible without trans liberation!
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New England Roe'd Show
We took our organizing on the road to educate our communities about how and where to access abortion care, and how to be an advocate for repro equity.
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Preconceived at the CT MoMA
We screened a new documentary on the dangers of anti-abortion centers to the Westport, CT community. Thanks to the MoMA for hosting us!
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Repro Champion Canvassing
We kicked off canvasses for a number of repro champs this election cycle, including State Rep. Marjorie Decker and Senator-elect Dyland Fernandes.
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NH Day of Action
Alongside our friends at Planned Parenthood Action Fund of NH, we knocked doors in Rochester, NHfor repro equity candidates up and down the ballot.
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2024 Repro Convening
We were proud to bring together repro advocates from across New England for our first regional convening this December in Concord, NH.
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Senate Field Hearing on Abortion Access
Our president joined Massachusetts senators for a Senate Field Hearing on the state of abortion access in Massachusetts, and continued national attacks on our care.
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'Avoid AACs' Campaign Launch
We joined with Massachusetts leaders to launch the state’s public education campaign on anti-abortion centers.
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REN's 2024 Gala
At this year’s annual gala, we recognized and celebrated our bold, intersectional repro agenda across Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire.
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Provider Appreciation Day
Massachusetts volunteers and advocates joined together this Provider Appreciation Day to write letters to our clinic staff thanking them for their heroic work.
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Testimony Writing at UConn
Our team held a workshop to teach UConn Medical Students how to write legislative testimony and become involved in state house advocacy in Connecticut.
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CT Abortion Legal Hotline Launch
This November, after the results of the presidential election, Repro Equity Now joined with the CT Attorney General for a press conference to launch our CT Abortion Legal Hotline.
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Politicians Make Brunch
We joined with legislative leaders in Connecticut for brunch and conversation about how to protect and expand reproductive health care access.
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Dobbs Discussion at UNH Law
Our policy counsel joined legal experts at UNH Law to talk about the fall out of the Dobbs decision, and future legal attacks on our care.
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Kabbalat Shabbat
Our president joined Temple Israel this fall for Kabbalat Shabbat to mobilize the community in support of reproductive rights and freedom.
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Repro College Convening
We joined together 26 repro organizations from all six New England states to chart our course forward for regional collaboration.
You helped make all this work possible. We are tremendously grateful to everyone who has invested both time and dollars in our work.
On behalf of all of us at Reproductive Equity Now and the Reproductive Equity Now Foundation, thank you!
A Note to Our Supporters, Donors, and Volunteers
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In January 2021, Reproductive Equity Now launched the ACCESS Society, a group of reproductive equity champions who have committed to supporting Reproductive Equity Now with a new or increased gift of $10,000 or more.*
Thanks to a challenge gift of $100,000 from Heather and Robert Keane, the ACCESS Society has served as a critical basis of support as the organization has expanded its mission.
ACCESS Stands for: Abortion, Choice, Community, Equity, Support, and Solutions. And thanks to our Access Society members, that is exactly what we are striving to accomplish and protect every day.
1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East
Anonymous
Anonymous
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The ALKU Foundation
Arnold Ventures
Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA
Judi and Larry Bohn
Margot Botsford and Stephen Rosenfeld
Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation
Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP
Connecticut Sun and NBA Properties Inc.
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Marjorie M. Findlay & Geoffrey T. Freeman
Gould Charitable Foundation
Goulston & Storrs
Happy and Bob Green
Heather and Robert Keane Family Foundation
Christine and Alan Huber
Jane's Trust Foundation
Anonymous
Thalia Meehan
Merck-Evarts Fund of Community Essex Foundation
Morgan Stanley GIFT
National Institute for Reproductive Health
Karen O'Malley and Michael Feldman
Dr. Martha Richardson
Francene and Charles Rodgers
Ruettgers Family Charitable Foundation
Benson P and Norma L Shapiro
Debby and Jim Stein Sharpe
State Abortion Access Network
Cathleen and Jim Stone
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
The Women's Fund of Western Massachusetts
Katherine and Philippe Villers
The Wild Geese Foundation
William and Lia G. Poorvu Family Foundation
* Please note that our 2024 fiscal year ran from July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2024. To account for pledges fulfilled from July 1, 2024, to December 31, 2024, we have included all leadership donations received this fall.
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Please join us in extending our gratitude to our donors who have made a gift of $1,000 or more to either Reproductive Equity Now or the Reproductive Equity Now Foundation.*
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* Please note that our 2024 fiscal year ran from July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2024. To account for pledges fulfilled from July 1, 2024, to December 31, 2024, we have included all leadership donations received this fall.