Read ARC-Southeast’s 2025 End-of-Year Impact Report — how our Healthline, outreach, mutual aid, and community organizing helped Southerners access abortion care and reproductive justice throughout the year.
ARC-Southeast 2025 Impact: Meeting Abortion Bans With Care
Across the Southeast, abortion bans and restrictions have forced people to travel farther, pay more, and navigate increasing stigma and criminalization just to access basic health care. The number of people nationally traveling out of state for abortion care in has nearly double since 2020, showing how often travel has become a requirement, not an exception.
ARC-Southeast exists to make sure people aren’t alone as they navigate that reality. Through abortion funding and practical support—like transportation, lodging, and food—we help Southerners access compassionate, vital care, rooted in the simple belief that everyone has the fundamental human right to bodily autonomy; to have children, not have children; and to parent children in safe and sustainable communities. Today, we’re sharing our 2025 End-of-Year Impact Report, which captures what our community made possible in a year of rising need.
By the numbers: direct support at historic scale
In 2025, ARC-Southeast supported over 5,400 callers—almost double our call volume compared to last year! We provided around $2.4 million in abortion funding (a 25% increase from last year!) and surpassed $10 million in total abortion funding provided over the past decade.
We also saw how rapidly the burden of travel continues to grow in the Deep South, as we documented in our Post-Dobbs Distance to Care research. Callers traveled an average of 200 miles one-way to reach an appointment. For many, it was far higher: 358 miles one-way for Mississippi callers on average, and 710 miles one-way for Florida callers on average in 2025. The highest travel cost was transportation, with average spending of $758 on flights, $102 on gas, $348 on hotels, and $138 on food.
And our work is serving the people most impacted by these barriers: 87% of callers identified as BIPOC, and 77% were already parents. Practical support costs reflected that reality: $642 on average for non-parents, compared to $2,139 for parents, who often need support with childcare and more complex travel logistics.
What 2025 demanded—and what we built
Across the country, restrictions continued to push people out of state for care, disrupt appointment availability, and increase delays and costs. National data showed tens of thousands of people traveling for abortion care in the first half of 2025 alone, underscoring how policy barriers force people to move across state lines for services.
Furthermore, we’ve seen the starkest consequences of the conservative forced birth agenda. Abortion bans have taken the lives of countless people, including Black women like Candi Miller and Amber Thurman, while dozens more are facing criminalization for miscarriages at increasing rates.
Here in the South these harsh truths shows up in every call, every ride, every hotel booking, every clinic appointment someone is trying to keep while balancing work, family, and safety. In the first half of 2025, our Healthline saw an increase in calls up 49% compared to the first half of 2024; by the end of 2025, we served thousands of callers through our Healthline—nearly doubling what we handled the year before.
At the same time, our Organizing and Outreach (O&O) team deepened community care and political education through a number of community programs designed to address urgent needs. Sow.Now.What., a monthly caller-centered peer support space, has grown into a true hub for emotional connection, resource-sharing, and leadership nurturing. In 2025, we expanded the number of peer-support sessions we offer, creating one monthly session designed specifically for new attendees and another for returning participants, and reached nearly 100 callers!
O&O also scaled region-wide contraception access and mutual aid. Through Plan B: Southeast program, we supplied 400+ emergency contraception kits to community outposts, while adapting distribution during donation shortages. Our team also launched a major distribution effort for Opill, the first FDA-approved over-the-counter birth control, and expanded our MonARCh volunteer program to effectively support our callers and organization.
As our Board Co-Chairs state inside of our Impact Report:
“The Dobbs decision generated chaos and we have met it with care.”
Read the full Report
Below, you’ll find the full ARC-Southeast 2025 End-of-Year Impact Report embedded for easy reading.
ARC-Southeast 2025 EOY Impact Report
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Keep this work moving
This report is proof of what’s possible when people show up for each other across state lines and across struggle. If you want to support abortion access, practical support, and community power-building in the South, we invite you to:
- – Donate to sustain direct support and organizing. You can become a monthly sustainer, or make a one-time donation.
- – Share this report with your community and get them excited to support reproductive justice.
- – Follow along and amplify urgent calls to action
Thank you for being part of the care we build—together.