I deleted the app I’d been using to track my period because we’re in the middle of a frightening political moment where men who want to control women are pushing through anti-abortion laws.” - Erin Matson

Advocate: Black Women Will Face Greatest Challenge If Planned Parenthood Closes

Pamela Merritt, co-founder of Reproaction and the emcee of the pro-Planned Parenthood rally held on Thursday in downtown St. Louis, said black women will be disportionately impacted if the reproductive health services clinic loses its license to perform abortions.

7 Abortion Rights Groups In Missouri You Can Support

The organization has campaigns specific to reproductive health care issues in Missouri and encourages people to get involved through volunteering and donations.

Marsha Blackburn, in her campaign for Senate, made opposition to Planned Parenthood and support for inflammatory aggressively edited videos a centerpiece of her campaign.” - Erin Matson

Take Action Now: Oppose Trump’s Abortion Extremism

Use Reproaction’s clinic database and tool kit to start a campaign to protest and get these phony clinics out of your community.

Reproaction Participates in Press Conference On Current State of Abortion Access in Virginia

Reproaction co-founder and co-director Erin Matson participated in a call-in press conference hosted by NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia, moderated by its executive director Tarina Keene. Other speakers included Gaby Garcia-Vera, states program manager of Catholics for Choice, Dr. Sara Imershein, OB-GYN, and Alicia Hupprich, an abortion storyteller. The call discussed the inflammatory, misinformation being spread by anti-abortion politicians in Virginia, the need for medical experts – not politicians – to provide care for patients, how further restrictions only serve to harm patients, and the vital necessity of abortion access and the importance of holding legislatures accountable to protecting and expanding access to reproductive freedom for all Virginians.

Reproaction Hosts Press Conference Discussing Virginia’s Anti-Abortion Activity

Reproaction co-founder and co-director Erin Matson hosted speakers Tarina Keene, executive director NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia, and Sharon Kann, reproductive rights director for Media Matters for America on a call-in press conference to discuss Virginia’s anti-abortion activity including anti-abortion zealotry leading to suspicion and punishment of women for a variety of pregnancy outcomes, including miscarriage; as well as the pitiful state of abortion access today, the rampant pro-life harassment occurring against abortion providers, people who have abortion, and policymakers who support them, and Reproaction’s demand to stop prosecuting self-managed abortion in the United States.

Reproaction Hosts Press Conference Discussing Missouri’s Regressive Abortion Laws

Reproaction co-founder and co-director Pamela Merritt hosted speakers Indra Lusero, staff attorney for National Advocates for Pregnant Women, Missouri State Representative Stacey Newman, and a Gateway Women’s Access Fund board member on a call-in press conference to discuss Missouri’s limited access to abortion, the state’s history of policing and incarcerating women, and the Supreme Court now having a 5-4 anti-abortion majority poised to strike down or gut Roe v. Wade and how it puts women at risk.

When we say we believe women and we trust women, we need to set an example for women and girls throughout the commonwealth who deserve better" - Erin Matson

Conservative state legislatures are the last group anyone should want determining whether they have access to abortion care, and our increasingly conservative courts come in a close second.” - Pamela Merritt