The Northwest Abortion Access Fund (NWAAF) is an abortion fund serving Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. Trained, compassionate volunteer advocates run our toll-free hotline. We help people pay for their abortion care by sending funding directly to the clinic. We also help people get to and from the clinic. And we make sure people traveling for care have a safe place to stay.

We envision a world where people can easily access safe, legal abortion care with respect, dignity, and compassion. We hope that by sharing your story it can help us better understand our callers and how we can best serve them. We also hope that by sharing your story we can work to dismantle the stigma in our communities surrounding abortion.

We value your privacy and will keep all information confidential unless you've given us permission on how we can use the stories you've shared with us! If you have questions or concerns about this survey, contact us at info@nwaafund.org, visit our website at https://nwaafund.org/or call us at 866-692-2310.

We believe the following:
➤ Abortion Bans: Bans and restrictions disproportionately harm communities that have survived systemic oppression and people who hold multiple marginalized identities. This moment demands that we fight for a future where abortion care is there for everyone who needs it, and people who’ve had abortions deserve to have their voices heard.
➤ Trust & Respect: We believe the people we serve are experts on their own lives. We treat people with unconditional respect, dignity, and compassion, and honor the decisions they make about their bodies, lives, and families.
➤ Autonomy: We believe all people deserve the freedom to decide what to do with their own bodies, and that no one should have to carry a pregnancy to term against their will.
➤ Intersectionality: We recognize that different forms of discrimination can interact and overlap, combining to create even more harm—a concept coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw. We recognize that inequitable access to healthcare, including abortion care, is tied to overlapping forms of oppression including sexism, racism, ableism, classism, homophobia, and transphobia.
➤ Reproductive Justice: We believe all people have the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children they have in safe and sustainable communities—this is reproductive justice, developed by Black women and defined by SisterSong. Reproductive justice demands that we work at the intersections of racial, economic, and gender justice. We strive to use a reproductive justice lens in all decisions.
➤ Racial Justice: We recognize that systemic racism, through decades of policies and practices that continue to this day, has benefited white people and harmed people of color. We understand systemic racism is a root cause of the persistent economic, political, social, and health disparities facing communities of color. We stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter and other organizations working for justice, respect, and dignity for communities of color. We commit to the ongoing work it takes to be an anti-racist organization.
➤ Economic Justice: We understand that federal and state policies and practices can serve to exploit, exclude, and punish low-income people. People can experience economic injustice through the denial of affordable health insurance coverage that covers the full range of reproductive services and face barriers to care through jobs without paid sick leave and the cost of expensive child care. We are committed to ensuring that our callers and our communities are treated with fairness and dignity, and have the resources to navigate their lives in a full and robust fashion that is not simply dependent upon economics.
➤ Culture Shift: We know abortion is health care. We know having an abortion or more than one abortion is normal, valid, and okay. We strive to center people who’ve had abortions, because those are the voices that matter. We seek to strike down stigma and shift culture so abortion is seen as ordinary, a medical procedure like any other health care, a human right.