Category: Blog

  • Special thanks to Alexis, Healthline, and ARC staff for supporting this post   Around twenty of us are all lined up in the basement of an old Atlanta building. It’s February 2025; the co...

    2025 proved being in community together is our power | ARC-Southeast 2025 Healthline Reflections

  • When talking about our organization’s values, the intentional love we share is at the core.   What Radical Love Means to ARC-Southeast   "Strangely enough, I can never be what I ou...

    Radical Love: A Grounding Practice for ARC-Southeast

  • As our work has expanded, our staff has grown and our politics have sharpened, we choose lean on Community Accountability more than ever before.   Since our founding in 2015, four core valu...

    What Community Accountability Means to ARC-Southeast

  • Our 'Southern Synergy' value has become 'Building Southern Power' — here's why.      Southern Synergy has been an essential ingredient to our development over the last decade. We embodi...

    What Building Southern Power Means to ARC-Southeast

  • First up in our values refresh series, we clarify how our work is grounded in our commitment to autonomy and self-determination and hold ourselves accountable to embodying this value in practice. &...

    Why Autonomy and Self-determination are at the Heart of ARC Southeast

  • Why Data Literacy Matters for Reproductive Justice   In the fight for reproductive justice, stories and lived experiences are essential. They illuminate the narratives and lives impacted by...

    Why Data Literacy Matters for Reproductive Justice

  • Outrage and Heartbreak for the Dehumanization of Adriana Smith   ATLANTA, GA — Access Reproductive Care-Southeast (ARC-Southeast) is outraged by the tragic and dehumanizing treatment of Adr...

    ARC-Southeast: Outrage and Heartbreak for the Dehumanization of Adriana Smith [Statement]

  • What is your name, where are you from, and what’s your story?   My name is Able Mable Thomas. Around 1986, I changed my name to Mabel Able Thomas. So no matter what, ‘Able’ would be a n...

    Q&A: The Destined Life of RJ Founding Mother, Able Mable Thomas

  • By Angel Whaley (ARC-Southeast Co-Executive Director)Those involved in the fight for Reproductive Justice have always known that Roe was the floor, not the ceiling. Despite Roe v. Wade’s privacy p...

    Roe was the bare minimum, not our wildest dream.

  • By Alexia Rice-Henry and Angel Whaley   Despite funding cuts, increased needs, and intensified bans across the states we serve — we find a way.   Deep breaths as we reflect on ...

    We’re STILL Here: ARC-Southeast Co-ED’s Reflect on 2024

  • What to know about using abortion pills and some legislative updates on accessing this form of care.   By Sierra R., ARC-Southeast Caller Engagement Coordinator   By now, you’ve probab...

    Self-Managed Abortion 101

  • ARC-Southeast’s Co-Eds share their reaction to the presidential election and where we should focus our collective energy, power.    With former President Donald Trump set to be the new pr...

    Keep Fighting For Reproductive Justice, No Matter Who’s President

  • By Sofia T. and Musa S.     The South is the common denominator. That’s why we center Southern power as one of our core values.   With a history that is inextricabl...

    Visualizing the Southeast: Putting Abortion Bans In Context

  • ## FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ## ARC-SOUTHEAST: GEORGIA ABORTION BAN RESPONSIBLE FOR AMBER'S DEATH ATLANTA, GA — ARC-Southeast is both heartbroken and outraged by the news of Amber Thurman and others t...

    Amber Thurman Should Be Here. GA’s Abortion Ban Is Responsible For Her Death.

  • By Sofia T.   What is abortion stigma?   Abortion stigma is the “social process of devaluing those people who have had abortions or those associated with abortion,” according to ...

    Understanding + Challenging Abortion Stigma