Pro-Choice Resources and Options
PregnancyOptions.info
This website has exercises to help women sort through their pregnancy options.
Backline
Since November 1, 2004, Backline has been providing client-centered pregnancy options discussion and information to women and their loved ones. Backline is dedicated to addressing the broad range of experiences and emotions surrounding pregnancy, parenting, adoption and abortion. Backline provides a forum in which women and their loved ones can engage in discussion that goes beyond political rhetoric.
Exhale
Exhale is a post-abortion counseling talkline where people can talk freely about their abortion experience. Exhale serves women who have abortions, and their partners, friends and family. Exhale respects the cultural, social and religious beliefs of all their callers.They also have other resources on their website such as links to other organizations and a list of helpful books.
I'm Not Sorry
This is a site where women can share their positive experiences with abortion.
Abortion Conversation Project
This website encourages people to talk about their abortion experiences in an open and honest way. The people behind the project believe that the real life experiences of providers and women themselves will enable people to understand and appreciate the complex moral decision making surrounding a pregnancy decision.
Choice Link-up
ChoiceLinkUp.com is a directory listing for information about reproductive health and rights, including abortion. You will find links to accurate health information, services, pro-choice organizations, rights groups, resources, and discussion sites.
“Mom, Dad, I’m Pregnant” -- Promoting Healthy Teen/Parent Communication
This site offers specific suggestions for both young women and men and for their mothers and fathers who are dealing with a pregnancy crisis. It includes advice for teens on telling parents about a pregnancy, considering options, information in case of a rape, and special advice for young male partners. Advice for parents highlights how to respond and improve relationships with daughters and sons. There are sections on minors’ rights and what to do if parents may be abusive, as well as information on spirituality, real stories, and additional resources.
Information on Non-Surgical Abortions
The Early Option Pill
This is Danco Laboratories official website for Mifeprex, formerly known as RU-486. This has information for healthcare-professionals as well as women exploring this option.
Early Options: A Provider's Guide to Medical Abortion
This site is run by the National Abortion Federation, and is meant to educate healthcare-professionals about non-surgical abortions. This site also contains a series of pages called the "Women's Information Guide" for women considering this option.
Medication Abortion
This is an international site about non-surgical abortions, and how they are performed in different areas of the world. This is mostly geared to healthcare-professionals, but it does have a section for women considering this option. This site is available in English, French, Spanish, and Arabic.
National Reproductive Rights Organizations
National Abortion Federation (NAF)
The National Abortion Federation (NAF) is the professional association of abortion providers in the United States and Canada. Their website has very good information about abortion, and resources for women who are pregnant and considering abortion.
National Coalition of Abortion Providers (NCAP)
The National Coalition of Abortion Providers represents the political, business and networking needs of independent abortion providers across the country.
National Network of Abortion Funds (NNAF)
The National Network of Abortion Funds (NNAF) is an affiliation of community-based abortion funds throughout the United States.
NARAL ProChoice America
NARAL Pro-Choice America is the political arm of the pro-choice movement and a strong advocate of reproductive freedom and choice.
Medical Students for Choice (MSFC)
Medical Students for Choice works to de-stigmatize abortion provision among medical students and to persuade medical schools to include abortion as a part of the reproductive health services curriculum.
Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health (PRCH)
PRCH is committed to ensuring that all people have the knowledge, access to quality services, and freedom of choice to make their own reproductive health decisions.
Choice USA
Choice USA mobilizes and provides ongoing support to the diverse, upcoming generation of leaders who promote and protect reproductive choice both now and in the future.
Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice
The Religious Coalition is an alliance of national organizations from major faiths unified in the commitment to preserve reproductive choice as a basic part of religious liberty.
Catholics For Choice
This Pro-Choice website has a variety of articles about abortion and reproductive rights written from the Catholic perspective.
Sexual Health Information Resources
The first Babeland store opened in 1993 in response to the lack of women-friendly sex shops in Seattle. The online store offers top quality products, a pleasant place to shop, and most of all information and encouragement to women and men who want to explore their sexuality.
At MyPleasure.com you’ll find expert selected sex toys along with one of the largest and most authoritative collections of sexual education on the internet. MyPleasure aims to increase consumer awareness of sex toys as a safe, clean and exciting way for adults to enjoy and enhance their sex lives, whether they be single or with a partner. Explore MyPleasure’s sex toys for men, women and couples, polls, educational articles, games and sex tips.
The Alan Guttmacher Institute
The Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) advances sexual and reproductive health through social science research, policy analysis and public education. They are a great source for statistical information about reproductive health.
Scarleteen
Scarleteen is committed to providing the best contemporary teen sex ed on the internet. Their site starts where your high school sex ed teacher left off. They promote the use of safer sex practices as well as masturbation and self-loving, while encouraging teens to make informed, responsible decisions about their own sexuality.
Gurl.com
This is a fun website self-described as "an interactive web thing for teen girls". It has health and sexuality information geared to a younger audience. The site is fully interactive with message boards, polls, quizzes, and good information.
Gay Health
Gayhealth.com is the first wellness site dedicated to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender men and women.
Iowa City GLBT Health
This website was created for the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT or LGBT) community of Iowa City, Iowa and the health care providers who work with them. The intent is to educate the GLBT community of the health issues specific to the community, provide access to gay-friendly doctors and other gay-friendly resources in the community, and to educate the community resources about the specific needs of the GLBT community.
Our Bodies, Ourselves
Since 1970, the Boston Women's Health Book Collective and their legendary Our Bodies, Ourselves has been a great source for information about sexual health. This website includes the companion website for the newest edition of the book.
Eastern Iowa Feminist Organizations
Women's Resource and Action Center
WRAC is dedicated to fostering women's individual empowerment and systemic solutions to all forms of oppression.
Domestic Violence Intervention Program
The Domestic Violence Intervention Program (DVIP) exists because battering is the single greatest cause of injury to women. DVIP serves Johnson County and the surrounding area offering a 24 hour crisis line, a safe shelter, counseling, education, and advocacy.
Rape Victim's Advocacy Program
Rape Victim Advocacy Program provides confidential, accessible support and advocacy to victim/survivors of sexual abuse and their partners, friends, and family members, and works to create a community free from sexual violence by providing education and prevention strategies and by promoting social change.
Women in Science and Engineering
The mission of the Women in Science and Engineering Program is to expand and improve educational and professional opportunities for women in all fields of science, technology, engineering and math by facilitating individual, institutional and social change.
Women in Business
Women in Business is the organization of women in the business school of the University of Iowa. Their mission is to build relationships that foster the trust, collective desire, and cooperation necessary to empower women to improve their lives and inspire them to improve the lives of others.
Iowa Women's Foundation
The mission of the Iowa Women's Foundation is to bring about a
just society by supporting the empowerment of all women in girls
throughout the state of Iowa.
Iowa NOW
The local chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW)
National Feminist Organizations
National Organization for Women (NOW)
The National Organization for Women (NOW) is the largest organization of feminist activists in the United States. Since its founding in 1966, NOW's goal has been to take action to bring about equality for all women.
Black Women's Health Imperative
Formerly called the National Black Women's Health Project, BWHI is a leading African American health education, research, advocacy and leadership development institution. Black Women's Health Imperative is the only national organization devoted solely to the health of the nation's 19 million Black women and girls.
National Women's Health Network
The National Women's Health Network improves the health of all women by developing and promoting a critical analysis of health issues in order to affect policy and support consumer decision-making.
Healthy Teen Network
HTN, formerly the National Organization on Adolescent Pregnancy, Parenting, and Prevention (NOAPP), is a national membership organization made up of practitioners, policy makers, and state and local coalitions concerned with adolescent pregnancy, parenting, and prevention. HTN provides information and education to inform practice and policy.
National Organization of Men Against Sexism (NOMAS)
NOMAS advocates a perspective that is pro-feminist, gay affirmative, anti-racist, dedicated to enhancing men's lives, and committed to justice on a broad range of social issues including class, age, religion, and physical abilities. NOMAS affirm that working to make this nation's ideals of equality substantive is the finest expression of what it means to be men.
Our Namesake, Emma Goldman
The Emma Goldman Papers
This is a scholarly website out of Berkeley about the life and accomplishments of our namesake, Emma Goldman.
The Jewish Women's Archives Exhibit on Emma Goldman
The mission of the Jewish Women's Archive is to uncover, chronicle, and transmit the rich legacy of Jewish women and their contributions to our families and communities, to our people and our world. This exhibit was produced in collaboration with the Emma Goldman Papers.
American Experience: Emma Goldman
The PBS series American Experience did an episode on Emma Goldman which originally aired April 12, 2004. This website is about the show and has a lot on Emma Goldman's life and experiences.
Feminist Magazines
Ms.
a feminist publication founded in 1972
Bust
feminism for the third wave
Bitch
an intelligent and fun feminist publication out of San Francisco
Off Our Backs
a radical feminist news journal
OnLine Feminist Journals
Jewish Feminist Resource
for Jewish Feminists
Medieval Feminist Index
journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages
Said It
feminist new, cultural and politics
Feminist Majority
a cutting edge organization founded in 1987 dedicated to women's equality, reproductive health, and non-violence
