At Abortion Conversation Projects, your donation goes right into the hands of artists and activists. At ACP, we bring together individuals and groups around the globe to combat abortion stigma in their communities by funding their ideas and projects. Our grant partners work at the grassroots level, starting with intimate and powerful conversations to work towards lasting social change.
Fighting abortion stigma in our communities is important, as is fighting for accessible and equitable abortion care for all. Even in areas where abortion is legalized and moderately available, cultural stigma against abortion holds people back from receiving necessary care. This same stigma also prevents people from publicly supporting those who receive abortions.
Abortion stigma is a deliberate tactic to vilify and erase the
nuanced experiences of those that have gotten abortions.
Abortion stigma is a deliberate tactic to vilify and erase the nuanced experiences of those that have gotten abortions. It does not help that some pro-choice language is still very binary and makes invisible gender non-conforming, non-binary, and transgender individuals. Stigma present in and outside of our passionate communities enacts the same emotional damage.
Through our seed grant program, we have funded artists, activists, writers, playwrights, musicians, and everyday people with big ideas. Creatives and activists often have difficulty securing funding for their work. This was further demonstrated with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We are honored to keep our seed grant program running through the pandemic and play a part in supporting the arts for social change.
We are part of a global movement.
We are part of a global movement. Thanks to donations, we have funded 82 Grant Partnerships across the United States, Latin America, Africa, and Asia since 2012. Instead of posing American ideas to our international applicants, our grantees propose their own projects for their local communities. ACP provides technical assistance, support, and brainstorming project implementation collaboratively. We will continue to work with domestic and global partners and build knowledge together as long as there is funding support.
Even in a perfect world, where abortion access is free, equitable, and comfortable, abortion stigma can be a persistent and dehumanizing barrier to services. We hope that you will be able to support ACP’s mission of having open and honest conversations around pregnancy decisions that address abortion, life, death, parenthood, sex and so much more. We will never stop working to create safe spaces to exercise autonomy.
Join us in creating a world free of abortion stigma. Donate here.
Tracia Banuelos is an ACP Board Member and a Graduate Student at Hunter and very involved in social justice movements.