Pro Life Dallas is organizing a clinic protest at a Dallas clinic this Saturday in coordination with the 37th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Please help us turn the mean tactics of protesters into financial support for women who cannot afford access to abortion.

Here’s how it works: sign up on our website and pledge a certain amount per protester (for example, ten cents). A TEA Fund volunteer will count the number of protesters present at the clinic and we will then send you a bill. The total will be the amount you pledged times the number of protesters present. For example, if you pledge ten cents and there are 500 protesters present, we’ll send you a bill for $50.00. To give you an idea of how many protesters to expect, 720 attended the protest last year.

Thank you for supporting reproductive justice,

The TEA Fund

Keep track of Congress, including the latest in pro- and anti- choice legislation with “Congress-Sunlight Labs.” It is made for the Android but has a similar app with the iphone.

Some cool things it does:* Finds your representatives and tracks how they vote* Tracks what bills are coming up for a vote next* Searches for bills you want to know about* Monitors floor activity and committee hearings

This is a favorite app of some of our TEA Fund members and one we think you should know about!

What: Working From Yourself, For Everybody Else: An Exhibition of Women Artists

Where: Smoke and Mirrors Art Gallery and Info Shop

When: Opening night, December 10, 2011.  Exhibition runs through January 8^th, 2012.

Why: All proceeds from the sale of artwork will go to benefit the Texas Equal Access Fund, a not for profit organization which provides funding for low-income women in the North Texas area to receive abortion services.
Suggested donation of $10.

Are you a woman artist?  We need your work in order to create meaningful pieces of self-expression that reflect your current reality and to help other women.  To submit a piece or pieces please email an average quality photo of your intended piece(s) to smokeandmirrorsdallas@gmail.com or mail them to 1920 N. Haskell Avenue, Dallas, TX 75204. Any questions regarding the exhibition should be directed to smokeandmirrorsdallas@gmail.com.

Your money will help a woman in desperate circumstances afford access to abortion. Look here for your final opportunity to make a statement for choice in such an important campaign.

$40 for Choice/40 Days for Life

The TEA Fund asks you to demonstrate your support for reproductive justice by donating $40 for choice. Your money will help a woman in desperate circumstances afford access to abortion. Look to our past blog post for how this campaign will stand as a form of protest against the bullying of anti-abortionists.

Call for Submissions from Women Artisans

Working From Yourself, For Everybody Else: An Exhibition of Women Artists will be a thirty-day long art exhibition at Smoke and Mirrors Art Gallery and Info Shop– with opening day planned for December 10, 2011. We are seeking works of art from women artists in the area in an effort to empower your vision to create meaningful pieces of self-expression that reflect your current reality. All proceeds from the sale of artwork will go to benefit the Texas Equal Access Fund.  Look here details on how to submit!

TX’s Abstinence-Only Doesn’t Work (surprise)

It probably comes as no shocker to you, but now there is further proof (link) that sex education sans, well, the sex, has not worked for us.  Furthermore, this failed policy is catching on nationally.

Sonogram Law on Hold but Slashing Women’s Healthcare isn’t

We’ve talked about the Sonogram Bill (past blog) recently, and luckily while pending in court, it will not be able to take full effect.  However, what aren’t pending are the jaw-dropping cuts to women’s healthcare.  “Lawmakers slashed a whopping two-thirds – almost $67 million – of state dollars available for contraception and reproductive healthcare for poor women.” This will lead to the closing of clinics statewide, including a projected 7 in North Texas.  And that’s just for now.

Supply-Side Abortion Restrictions

Targeting the “suppliers” of abortions, such as clinics and hospitals, has proven to be a successful and relatively new tactic of anti-choice advocates.   In Texas, it was particularly successful when implementing The Texas Woman’s Right to Know Act, which went into effect in January 2004, “requiring that later-term abortions be performed in a hospital or an ambulatory surgical center with staffing, reporting and facility-structure requirements.” Abortions performed after 16 weeks dropped 88% and the average distance to a non-hospital abortion provider rose dramatically.  The trend has proven successful for other locations across the country as well.

Upcoming TV Series Focuses on Abortion

From the creator of True Blood will come a new show about the late doctor Dr. George Tiller.

Submission Form and Piece(s) must be received by

November 26, 2011

Exhibition Dates:

December 10^th – January 8^th

Artwork will be displayed at Smoke & Mirrors Art Gallery and Info Shop, Dallas, TX

Working From Yourself, For Everybody Else: An Exhibition of Women Artists will be a thirty-day long art exhibition – with opening day planned for December 10, 2011. We are seeking works of art from women artists in the area in an effort to empower your vision to create meaningful pieces of self-expression that reflect your current reality. All proceeds from the sale of artwork will go to benefit the Texas Equal Access Fund, a not for profit organization which provides funding for low-income women in the North Texas area to receive abortion services.

***If you are interested in donating your talent, email smokeandmirrorsdallas@gmail.com with an average quality picture of your intended piece or pieces. The subject line must include “TEA Fund”. Note: Not all submissions will be chosen for display. Please make sure works are completed before submission.

The TEA Fund asks you to demonstrate your support for reproductive justice by donating $40 for choice. Your money will help a woman in desperate circumstances afford access to abortion.

The 40 Days for Life campaign is well-organized and involves over 200 communities across the nation. Part of this campaign includes protesting at abortion clinics, and the campaign is active in seven different cities in the TEA Fund’s service area, so this campaign is directly affecting our clients by harassing and intimidating them for making the choice they feel is best for them and their families.

Churches across the D/FW metroplex are sending members to protest and hold prayer vigils 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at the Southwestern clinic in Dallas for the entire forty days of September 28 through November 6.

If you believe being pro-choice means more than taking a political position, help us make reproductive rights a reality for all women. You can do this right now by donating $40 to the TEA Fund.

The TEA Fund is a grassroots organization with one mission: to help low-income women afford abortion. Our clients are poor women who often face many other challenges like single motherhood, homelessness, diability, disease, unemployment and domestic violence. Abortion is legal, but for our clients it’s still out of reach.

Opponents of choice are making sacrifices to support their convictions by fasting and taking time off work to protest at abortion clinics. Please help us stand up for women by donating $40 today.