Eastern Massachusetts Abortion Fund

Connecting women's rights to concrete resources.

The Eastern Massachusetts Abortion Fund, Inc., an affiliate of the National Network of Abortion Funds, believes that abortion services should be available to all women regardless of their ability to pay.

We are committed to ensuring the accessibility of abortion and abortion related services for all women. While the government should ultimately be funding services for women who cannot afford them, we cannot wait for these policies to change. Women need assistance now. Therefore, EMA Fund works to:

* Allocate funds equitably to ensure that women without adequate resources can have safe and timely abortions;

* Organize to eliminate obstacles, such as language barriers, lack of transportation, and child care costs that the women we serve face in obtaining abortions;

* Work cooperatively with health care providers, grassroots organizers, and activists to reduce costs and barriers to abortion and refer poor women in need;

* Assist eligible women in obtaining Medicaid coverage;

* Broaden the terms and the audience for discussions about reproductive freedom locally, nationally, and internationally; and

* Increase awareness and sensitivity to obstacles restricting abortion access.

In this spirit, EMA Fund provides grants to ensure that women and girls without adequate resources can have safe and timely abortions. While EMA's immediate scope is necessarily local, our work is an essential link in the global movement for reproductive and sexual freedom.

1. All people have the right to choose the terms of their sexual and reproductive lives.

2. Support for all women and their families so that they may have and take care of their children with dignity. This includes support and lack of stigma for households consisting of single parent families, extended families, GLBT families and those led by si

3. Affordable, high-quality childcare for all families.

4. A national, single-payer health care system.

5. The elimination of health disparities, including disproportionate rates of infant mortality among African Americans and reproductive cancers among Latinos.

6. An end to attacks on reproductive rights through “welfare reform”, including “family caps”, denial of assistance to teenagers and immigrants and coercive marriage policies.

7. Access to safe, affordable, culturally competent contraception without coercion.

8. Accessible, early prenatal care for all pregnant women.

9. Effective AIDS prevention and affordable treatment services.

10. An end to ongoing attacks on reproductive freedom globally.

11. An end to all forms of violence against women and their allies.