MEJO 484: Infographics: Reproductive Rights - Spring 2023

North Carolina Organizations:

• Pro-Choice North Carolina is a statewide organization that works exclusively to protect and advance the reproductive rights of all North Carolinians.
• Carolina Abortion Fund (CAF) is a 501-c3 nonprofit founded in 2011 that operates a confidential, toll free helpline that provides financial, practical, and emotional support to callers in North and South Carolina trying to access abortion care.
• ACLU of North Carolina is an American nonprofit organization focused on defending and preserving individual rights and liberties as guaranteed by the Constitution, including abortion rights.

National and International Organizations:

• The Reproductive Health Access Network is a national movement of primary care clinicians focused on protecting and expanding access to abortion, contraception, and early pregnancy loss care in their communities and across the country. 
• The Institute for Women's Policy Research conducts rigorous research and disseminates its findings to address the needs of women, promote public dialog, and strengthen families, communities, and societies.
• SisterSong is a Southern based, national membership organization dedicated to building a network to improve policies surrounding the reproductive lives of marginalized communities.
• Planned Parenthood is a nonprofit organization that provides reproductive and sexual healthcare as well as sexual education, nationally and globally.
• The Guttmacher Institute is a research and policy non-governmental organization that works to expand reproductive rights worldwide. 

Amnesty International's Key Facts on Abortion discusses different important facts and statistics involving abortion.

Planned Parenthood's Fact Sheets and Reports page offers information about different aspects of abortion and birth control.

Pew Research Center's Key facts about the abortion debate in America offers a statistical look at the abortion debate. 

The Center for Reproductive Rights' 2022 Annual Report details recent developments surrounding abortion both domestically and internationally, and discusses what the organization has done to promote reproductive rights.

Resources for 484 Infographcs at UNC's Hussman School of Journalism and Media.

Search for Scholarly, Industry, and News articles in "EBSCO" Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, & Communication and Mass Media Complete + CINAHL and Women's Studies International together

Not sure where to start? Try some of these search terms:

• "reproductive rights" or "reproductive justice" or "reproductive oppression"
• "birth control" or contraception or contraceptive or "Plan B" or "long-acting reversible contraceptives" or "intrauterine devices" or "subdermal contraceptive implants"
• abortion or "planned parenthood" or "abortion clinic" or "pregnancy center"
• "forced sterilization" or "coerced sterilization"
• pregnancy or pregnant or prenatal or antenatal or perinatal or maternal
• "reproductive health" or "sexual health" or "abstinence only" or "comprehensive sex education" or "family planning"
• "teen pregnancy" or "adolescent pregnancy" or "teenage pregnancy" or "teen mom" or "teen mother"

Filmfinder is a UNC Library service that allows you to search for films based on keyword, title, and director, and has a number of films and videos available to stream related to reproductive rights, including:

• Abortion: Ancient and Modern
• The Abortion Divide
• Reproductive Rights and the Women Who Sparked a Movement
• Life and Choice after Roe v. Wade

• CQ Researcher provides in-depth reporting on topical issues. Issues are published online and in print on a weekly basis. See their report Abortion Post-Roe from September 2022, or any of the following:
  • Abortion Rights (July 2021)
  • Abortion (August 2020)
  • Maternal Mortality (June 2020)
  • Abortion Controversies (March 2019)