The words overwhelmed and inundated don’t fully cover how the funds’ staffs and volunteers have felt in the two weeks since the SCOTUS decision
Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images In the week following the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade, the abortion fund Florida Access Network was flooded with over $150,000 in donations and more than 400 volunteer applications. As the support poured in, the fund was figuring out how to help a client who presented a complicated logistical challenge, according to executive director Stephanie Loraine Piñeiro.
At the same time that they’re navigating this rapidly changing legal landscape, abortion funds across the nation are dealing with a tsunami of donations and volunteer offers from outraged pro-choice supporters, fielding an uptick in calls from people who don’t know whether abortion is still legal in their state, and continuing to help desperate clients who need support to make it to their appointments. .
Carolina Abortion Fund has received over 5,000 calls this year and expects that number to increase significantly. The organization typically funds about 60 percent of the cost of an abortion for its clients. Its average pledge is around $300; an abortion in the Carolinas costs between $400 and $800 on average. By the time the court ruled on Dobbs on June 24, the fund had run through its allocated budget for the month.
As a result, some groups — such as the Women’s Medical Fund in Wisconsin, one of the oldest abortion funds in the nation — have stopped offering funding to clients. Its hand was forced by an 1849 law that bans almost all abortions in the state and can now be enforced, according to Women’s Medical Fund president Lucy Marshall.
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