31 WAYS TO GET INVOLVED

Celebrate more than three decades of the right to choose with our Activist Checklist. There is something for everyone - get involved in your community, school, or place of worship to make an important difference in the lives of women.

In Everyday Life

• Ask your ob-gyn and family practice physician if they are pro-choice and/or provide abortion as a part of the continuum of reproductive health care
• Make sure your insurance carrier covers abortion
• Write a letter of support to an official who supports policies that improve access to abortion care
• Tell your story
• Join the Patient Partnership
• Speak positively and with confidence about being pro-choice
• Donate to the NAF Rachel Falls Patient Assistance Fund
• Put a pro-choice bumper sticker on your car
• Write to a woman's magazine about why you are pro-choice

At Your School

• Tell your friends and student health services about the NAF Hotline 1-800-772-9100
• Write an article for the student paper
• Join or start your own chapter of Students for Choice
• Make sure student health services provides Emergency Contraception

In Your Community

• Write an op-ed for your local newspaper
• Contact your elected representatives (state and federal)
• Submit a positive resolution regarding Roe v. Wade to your city council
• Join your school board and support comprehensive sex education
• Contact your Yellow Pages about accurately advertising Crisis Pregnancy Centers, i.e. they should not be listed under abortion

In Your Faith

• Join a pro-choice religious group
• Find out if your religion has an official position on choice
• Learn more about the morality of choice
• Bring pro-choice materials to your religious community
• Write something for your religious newsletter
• Support comprehensive sex education

Support the Providers and Clinics

• Raise money for low-income women to obtain abortions
• Send a thank you note to a local clinic
• Escort women at a local clinic
• Volunteer at the clinic
• Sponsor an advertisement
• Organize a party for the staff
• Send a letter to the editor supporting the clinic

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