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Chicago Abortion Fund

make choice possible

About Me

The Chicago Abortion Fund (CAF) fights to overturn economic barriers to reproductive choice. Through direct service and education/advocacy, CAF assists low-income women in obtaining safe abortion services by providing clinic referrals, negotiated discounts and financial assistance. While we are unable to directly assist all the women in need, we work to extend choice to all low-income women by making the issue of economic access a priority on the agenda of policy makers.
For more information, or to contact us, please see our website .
Also, if you are in need of funding, please do not message us through myspace, it will be deleted. Call our client line at (312) 663-0338. We generally take calls on Tuesday, from 3-5pm or until all funding is exhausted. If you can not get through to us, do not fall into our funding guidelines, are not from the midwest region, or are otherwise unable to get funding from us, please check out the National Network of Abortion Fund's website for more resources.
We are a fund, not a clinic. If you need help finding a clinic near you, look up your area on Gyn Pages .
CHECK US OUT ON TV!
Watch My Voice, My Choice, CAF's leadership group, host their own TV talk show/hotline on CAN TV's Channel 21 . The last Wednesday of every month at 8:30pm.
You can also watch old episodes on Youtube !
Check out our blog!
Thanks to Firebelly Design for the newly designed logo and art direction of our official website and new literature!
Your donations help keep us going- together, let's make choice possible!

My Interests

Abortion, abortion rights, being healthy, birth control, class issues, clinics, condoms, consent, contraceptives, firebelly design, GLBT people, health care workers, healthy relationships, higher education, HIV/AIDS awareness, medicaid funding, mother's rights, politics, pro choice issues, queer issues, reproductive health care policy, safer sex, STD/I prevention, survivors, violence prevention, women's health

I'd like to meet:

Reproductive freedom fighters and other everyday people... ";

My Blog

Funding Guidelines, Raising Money and Abortion Resources

Funding Guidelines for Chicago Abortion Fund: The Chicago Abortion Fund's Client Services Line is generally open once a week for a certain amount of time. Please call the line and listen to the det...
Posted by Chicago Abortion Fund on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:05:00 PST

ED Report: Challenging Times, Yet Not Impossible Times!

I hope you've had a chance to catch some of the wonderful and groundbreaking advocacy projects that we have been working on over this past fiscal year (07/07  06/08). As we move forward into another ...
Posted by Chicago Abortion Fund on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:05:00 PST

Post office troubles...

If you have sent Chicago Abortion Fund mail through the post office and it was returned, please inform us immediately via a phone call or email! Our address is the same and we are not sure why the pos...
Posted by Chicago Abortion Fund on Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:13:00 PST

Wishlist

Office Wants: Gift Certificates to Office Depot, Staples Framing Service (to preserve the posters we have collected in our years of operation) Copying Paper Ink: HP Color Laser...
Posted by Chicago Abortion Fund on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:41:00 PST

Sign the Petition to Repeal Hyde!

Dear Friend,Abortion is still legal in the U.S. , but every year thousands of women are denied this right because they don't have the money to pay for abortion care. Low-income women are often forced ...
Posted by Chicago Abortion Fund on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:51:00 PST

Fundraising Poll, please answer!

In trying to raise money for our leadership group, we are planning several upcoming small events. For those of you in the Chicago area, what fun!draiser would you be most likely to drop $20 on? -a fe...
Posted by Chicago Abortion Fund on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 01:20:00 PST

Want to write for CAF?

Chicago Abortion Fund's "Listening To Girls" Column Is Looking For Young Writers! We are seeking the voices of young grammar or high school girls! Write about any of the following topics, either in...
Posted by Chicago Abortion Fund on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 01:40:00 PST

Support Reproductive Justice for Young Women!

Support Reproductive Justice for Young Women! Rally Against Parental Notification in Illinois !   Illinois is moving closer to becoming a state where young women cannot independently and safely a...
Posted by Chicago Abortion Fund on Tue, 29 May 2007 11:12:00 PST

CAF Updates

CAF on the Move&..News You Can Use! Now that the Chicago Abortion fund is back on its feet and moving full steam ahead, we will provide you with occasional updates and news you can use! If any of y...
Posted by Chicago Abortion Fund on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:46:00 PST

New! After Abortion E-Cards

ALL NEW After-Abortion Greeting Cards: A New Way to Acknowledge, Respect and Support After-Abortion Experiences Oakland-based Exhale launches first-ever after-abortion e-cards on www.4exhale.org Oakl...
Posted by Chicago Abortion Fund on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:14:00 PST