original goal was $20K for ND abortion clinic to move states. Gofundme raised $630k in two days

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FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A fundraising campaign to help North Dakota's sole abortion clinic move a few miles away to Minnesota has raised more than half a million dollars in two days.

The Red River Women's Clinic in Fargo will have to shut down in 30 days as part of the state's trigger law that went into effect Friday, when the U.S. Supreme Court removed the constitutional right to abortion.


A GoFundMe page set up Friday to benefit the transition had raised over $515,000 from more than 6,000 donors as of late Saturday afternoon. The original goal was $20,000.

Abortion is legal in Minnesota and the state's governor signed an order to help protect people seeking or providing abortions from facing legal action from other states.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/red-river-womens-clinic-new-location

https://www.middletownpress.com/news/article/Fundraising-for-North-Dakota-abortion-clinic-move-17265855.php

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1. Minnesota can use it -- we only have 8 such clinics statewide, and ALL our U.S. neighbors --

N. and S. Dakota, Iowa, and yes, Wisconsin, are also reproductive health desert states (yes, Wisconsin too -- #2 and #4 in https://www.democraticunderground.com/105911664 )

Our S.W. corner almost touches the N.E. corner of Nebraska - another one.

With just 8 abortion clinics, Minnesota may struggle to meet out-of-state demand, Kaiser Health News by way of NPR, 6/25/22
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/06/25/1107542054/with-just-8-abortion-clinics-minnesota-may-struggle-to-meet-out-of-state-demand

. . . Clinicians and abortion rights advocates say Minnesota patients regularly wait at least two weeks for appointments at state clinics — a delay that could push people past the window when an abortion is an option.

"Even over this year working with abortion funds and clinics here, they're sending people from Minnesota out to other states because there are not enough appointments," particularly for those in the second trimester, said Megan Peterson, executive director of Gender Justice, a nonprofit that advocates for gender equity.

. . . North Dakota, South Dakota, and Texas have so-called trigger laws that ban nearly all abortions after the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. In Iowa, the state's Supreme Court on June 17 overturned abortion protections affirmed by a 2018 state court decision, and Wisconsin has an 1849 law criminalizing the procedure in nearly all cases.

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2. And these people will VOTE.

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3. They could use some of the extra money to help women who can't afford the travel costs

to get an abortion.

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4. Yup. Some Katha Pollitt suggestions, The Nation (magazine),

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/help-after-roe/
NO PAYWALL: https://archive.ph/t5wUH

Ways to Fight for Abortion Rights After Roe, by Katha Pollitt, The Nation, 5/6/22 ((the following is the part that suggests funds to donate to -- bits and pieces here and there -Progree))


... New York Abortion Access Fund,

travel funds like the Brigid Alliance, which covers the cost of transportation, plus food, lodging, child care—whatever the patient needs.

Give to regular funds as well—The National Network of Abortion Funds is holding its annual fundraiser right now (fundathon.nnaf.org). On its home page, you’ll find a map of all its member funds, probably including one or more in your region.

Fifth: Use your imagination. Can you host a traveling patient in your spare room, or even on your sofa? If you run an Airbnb, can you volunteer it one or two days a month? Can you drive someone from a banned state to the nearest clinic? Volunteer as a clinic escort? Mind a patient’s children while she’s having her procedure? Call your local clinic and ask how you can help.

the Frontera Fund (https://fronterafundrgv.org/ ), which helps low-income residents of the Rio Grande Valley access abortion,

or Just the Pill (https://www.justthepill.com/ ), which sends affordable abortion pills by mail and is starting a mobile clinic.

You don’t need to start your own secret network to get pregnant women out of Texas—give to Fund Texas Choice (https://fundtexaschoice.org/ ), which already does that. ...

Smith College professor Carrie N. Baker, who studies the abortion pill, suggests you spread information about abortion pills and how to get them safely. Go to plancpills.org for details.

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5. Travel funding will be huge

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8. This is what abortion funds do.

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6. Update..total to 675000

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7. Update 733k donated