Protect abortion access
No matter who. No matter where.
Access to abortion and contraception puts people in control of their own bodies and reproductive health. When you give to Ipas, you give women and girls everywhere the opportunity to determine their own future.
Exception-based abortion laws don’t work.
These “exceptions” have proven impossible to implement. Pregnancies caused by rape or incest, or that threaten the life or health of the pregnant person, are forced to continue.
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With abortion being talked about in the news, on podcasts and on social media so much these days, it felt like a good time to look a little deeper.
Bodily autonomy is so much more than a “women’s issue” (the phrase we keep seeing on all these platforms). Access to reproductive freedom has wide reaching impacts, in terms of racial, gender and health equity, and the economy.
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The U.S. is violating human rights.
Abortion is either banned completely, heavily restricted to the earliest days of pregnancy, or under legal threat in at least 26 states in the US. 15 states have criminal penalties for patients and providers ranging from less than a year to potential life in prison.
These bans and restrictions–which have extended to fertility treatments like IVF–violate human rights and are inconsistent with the US’s obligations under international human rights law. State, local and municipal governments, as key components of the U.S. government, play an important role in ensuring the U.S. upholds its human rights obligations.
Today, Rep. Nikema Williams of Georgia introduced a human rights resolution in Congress commending state and local governments for championing reproductive rights as human rights. Local governments in Texas, North Carolina, Maryland, Virginia and Louisiana have introduced legislation upholding human rights obligations under international human rights treaties.
We urge states and local governments across the US to enact similar legislation to protect and promote reproductive freedom.
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Abortion is a human right.
Bodily autonomy is a human right.
Reproductive freedom is a human right.
It’s not new. It’s not complicated.
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In North Kivu Province where Dr. Buyibuyi works, over 1.2 million people have fled their homes since March 2022 due to ongoing clashes. The camps in this region are crowded with thousands enduring harsh conditions, and gender-based violence is an everyday occurrence. Despite the challenging environment, Ipas DRC has established mobile clinics within many of these camps to provide essential sexual and reproductive health services.
Humanitarian efforts often fall short, neglecting sexual and reproductive health needs. That’s why Ipas DRC’s mobile clinics serve as lifelines for women and girls in the camps, many of whom are survivors of gender-based violence. These clinics help provide them with contraception, abortion services, treatment for sexually transmitted infections and even counseling.
Dr. Buyibuyi took us with her for a typical day at work. In this second video, she begins her work in the camps.
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Dr. Celestine Buyibuyi’s life has been shaped by armed conflict. Born and raised amidst war, her experience echoes that of millions in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A doctor driven to ease the suffering of war-displaced people, she works with Ipas and partners to fill a critical and unmet need: sexual and reproductive health care that includes abortion.
As a doctor serving as Ipas’s community engagement advisor in East DRC, Buyibuyi says her motivation for doing what she does is simple: “When I see a woman suffering, I see myself suffering.”
Dr. Buyibuyi took us with her for a typical day at work. In this first video, she travels to the camps to begin her day.
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Swipe for some good old fashioned fact checking and myth debunking!
Misinformation about aborti0n contributes to stigma around the procedure.
Key things to always remember?
Aborti0n is:
✔️Safe
✔️Common
✔️Normal
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We’re dialing it allllllllll the way back today.
Because this form of health care is so politicized, apparently *everyone* is an expert🙃
There’s a severe lack of understanding around just the basics of ab0rtion. So here’s a resource!
Share this with your community🧡
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Though we’d refresh this lil reel.
What else would you add?
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The anti-abortion movement uses coded language—often co-opting phrases from human rights movements—to normalize their mission.
It’s important to know and understand the language they use to quickly identify and call out misinformation.
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Send this to someone who doesn’t see anything wrong with Project 2025 🫠🫠🫠
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