Welcome to the first part of Power in Our Hands, NNAF’s collective learning series! Join our email list to get every installment as soon as it drops. Or visit the Power in Our Hands Campaign to find the resources we’ve already shared.
Let’s Talk About the Power and History of Self-Managed Abortion.
In our learning series, Power in Our Hands, we explore evidence-based information about abortion and gain tools to liberate ourselves with education. Using our shared values, we examine what we were taught about surveillance, policing, and criminalization, and discuss how these systems play out in our daily lives.
We each have a vital role in the collective legacy of self-managed abortions. Discover yours with this educational series.
Take part:
- Join our email list.
- Explore Power in Our Hands resources.
- Register for our 11/18/25 Movement Panel on Self-Managed Abortion. Visit the Abortion + You section on this page to learn more.
We’re so excited to learn, heal, and grow together.
Our Decisions About Our Bodies Deserve Support.
All of us deserve access to collective care, resources, and community support.
When abortion and abortion supporters are criminalized, those in power can uphold systems of reproductive oppression. Denying gender affirming documents and preventing movement across borders to get abortions are forms of enhanced surveillance of our personal lives and travel.
It’s no coincidence that abortion pills, abortion providers, and our loved ones who support us with abortion are under attack at the same time as this heightened monitoring of our bodies.
Managing Our Abortions is About Liberation and Reproductive Autonomy.
It always has been and always will be.
Attempts to resurrect the Comstock Act and attacks on Mifepristone (one of the drugs that can be used in medication abortions) are the latest example in a long history of criminalizing the bodies of Black, Indigenous, migrant, disabled, queer, and trans people, and people with low incomes. Laws to restrict abortion access are an attempt to control our bodies. They punish and criminalize pregnant people and their loved ones.
These laws aren’t keeping us safe. They’re villainizing us and stripping us of our agency and humanity.
Reproductive Autonomy: Forever & Always.
Did you know: For as long as people have gotten pregnant, folks have used traditional methods to regulate periods, control their own contraception, and have abortions.
This is true across all cultures. In fact, indigenous traditions have long-held practices of inducing abortions using herbal remedies and rituals that communities continue to use to this day.
Abortion + You:
November 18 at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT: NNAF will host a talk about the mutual aid and care networks that make reproductive autonomy possible.
Join us, Reprocare, If/When/How, Ibis Reproductive Health, and Advocates for Youth for a conversation about self-managed abortion (SMA). Hear from the abortion funds and movement partners who organize care in the U.S. and beyond. Learn about the realities of self-managed abortion: Understand how and why it’s criminalized. And explore how communities are responding and fighting back domestically and internationally.
Liberation asks us to see beyond borders to create access everywhere. Learn more about the vast work happening in our movement and discover how you can support networks of care near you.
Need closed captioning or Spanish-language translation to participate? No worries! We’ll provide both. To keep this space secure, share this link, but register individually.
We Got Us. No Matter Where.
We’re inspired by the large networks of care in countries where abortion is illegal or highly criminalized. Together, we’ll build collective power and carry forward the legacy of our movement ancestors and transcestors, manifesting what community care looks like.
Meet us in your inbox—or on the Power in Our Hands Campaign page!—to continue our educational journey.