321ACTION: Menstrual equity, Google's abortion tracking, and abortion advocacy training

Ready to make a difference?

Here are three ways to get started:

Gun violence prevention can be an overwhelming issue to tackle, but this report from Everytown for Gun Safety and Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions provides concrete and commonsense guidance on how to prevent people who are an ‘extreme risk’ from having access to a firearm. Read the report and share it with your network.

1. Tell your Representative to support the Menstrual Equity For All Act.

Period poverty is a public health crisis. Menstrual hygiene products are essential items but they are not available in most food pantries, and purchases are taxed by many states. Lack of basic hygiene necessities keep girls and women out of school and work, adding to inequity in education and wages. All women and girls deserve economic justice and access to reproductive health care.

The Menstrual Equity For All Act (Rep. Meng (D-NY-6) will:

  • Allow states to use federal grant funds to provide students with free menstrual products;

  • Ensure that incarcerated individuals and detainees in federal, state, and local facilities have access to free menstrual products;

  • Allow homeless assistance providers to include menstrual products in the shelter necessities covered by grant funds;

  • Require Medicaid to cover the cost of menstrual products.

H.R. 3646 currently has 64 co-sponsors. Please contact your representative and ask them to support this important bill so no girl or woman misses school or work because it’s “that time of the month.” 

 

2. Demand that Google stop aiding abortion prosecutors.

Despite repeated claims to the contrary, Google still collects and retains at least two distinct pieces of location data from individuals visiting abortion clinics, which could be weaponized by prosecutors. 

Criminalization, abortion care access, and lack of data privacy protections disproportionately hurt those most impacted by systemic and historical oppression – including Black people and people of color, working-class folks, and LGBTQ+ people. We cannot let Google off the hook here. Add your name to our new petition calling on Google to stop collecting location data and aiding abortion prosecutors.

 

3. Get trained on digital organizing strategies for abortion advocacy.

It’s the one-year anniversary of Dobbs v. JWHO (overturning Roe v. Wade) and there’s so much work to be done to increase access to abortions around the country. Commit to being part of that change by getting training and taking action.

Virtual trainings on digital organizing strategies will be held on Wednesdays, June 14th, 21st, and 28th at 6:00 p.m. ET. Each training addresses a different aspect of abortion access. Learn more at Volunteer Month of Action for Abortion Access in June! 

Action AlertDanielle Cantor321, advocacy