Looking for resources and support around pregnancy, parenting, abortion or adoption?
Remember that Backline's Talk Line is here for you to discuss your feelings, decisions and experiences about pregnancy, parenting, abortion and adoption - without judgment or limitation. Call us if you need to talk!
Pregnancy Options & Support:
- The Pregnancy Options Workbook: This online workbook offers information on adoption, abortion, and parenting, as well as chapters on spirituality, self-care, decision-making exercises, and information just for men.
- Faith Aloud: is an organization of people of diverse religious faiths and convictions who support reproductive justice for every person. Faith Aloud offers online resources and free telephone counseling with supportive religious clergy.
- Mom, Dad, I'm Pregnant Resources and tips to help teens talk to their parents about being pregnant, and to help parents provide support and guidance to their teens.
- OTIS Pregnancy: is dedicated to providing accurate evidence-based information to patients and health care professionals about exposures to drugs and chemicals during pregnancy and breastfeeding.
- Baby Blues Connection provides support, information and resources to women and families coping with pregnancy and postpartum mood disorders and to the professionals who serve them.
Pregnancy & Infant Loss:
- Unspoken Grief is a safe place to share, talk, support and learn about the impact of miscarriage, stillbirth and neonatal loss in our lives. A grief and journey that is often underestimated which can cause women, partners, families and friends to feel silenced and invisible.
- Babies Remembered and Wintergreen Press provides many resources for those who have experienced pregnancy and infant loss, including miscarriage, stillbirth and infant death.
Parenting:
- US Government Parenting Resources: An index of resources and information on parenting compiled by the United States government.
- Strong Families: is a 10-year national initiative led by ACRJ to change the way people think, feel and act in support of all our families.
- Moms Rising: where moms and people who love them go to change our world. Together we can build a nation where children, parents, and businesses thrive; and end discrimination against mothers.
- The PushBack: We know that teen parents can be capable caregivers and fabulous role models for their children. This space is to push back against all that ignorance, bitterness, and prejudice and show what young parenthood really looks like.
- Girl Mom: Designed and moderated by and for young mothers, the Girl Mom community offers real voices of teen parents on topics including education, rights, self esteem, kids, sexuality, and politics.
- Hip Mama: is an independent online magazine bursting with political commentary and ribald tales from the front lines of motherhood.
Abortion:
- Abortion Care Network: This network of independent abortion providers, allies, and individuals who provide quality care for women offers resources and materials on everything from choosing a quality abortion provider to post-abortion health.
- National Abortion Federation: provides information on abortion procedures and laws, as well as a toll-free hotline that offers funding assistance and referrals to abortion providers that are NAF members.
- National Network of Abortion Funds: This organization can help women who need financial assistance to obtain an abortion procedure by connecting you to abortion funds in your area.
- Abortion Clinics Online: lists abortion clinics in your area.
- Abortion: Which Method Is Right For Me?: Provides information for women choosing between medication and aspiration abortion.
- Men & Abortion offers factual, spiritual and emotional information and support for men.
- Project Voice: A place to write about your abortion experience and read other women's stories.
Post-Abortion:
- Exhale is a 'pro-voice' community of women and men with personal abortion experiences that offers support and community through a national after-abortion Talk Line and online community.
- A Guide to Emotional and Spiritual Resolution After an Abortion
- Inner Healing After Abortion: Inner Healing After Abortion presumes pregnancy is a significant event - regardless of what happens next. Abortion is one of the childbearing losses. Those who have made this difficult decision deserve caring, kindness and healing.
- Taking Care of Yourself After An Abortion: Northland Family Planning in Michigan has great information on their website about taking care of yourself after an abortion, both physically and emotionally.
Adoption:
- Adoption Access Network is a nationwide network of pro-choice adoption agencies committed to: choice, open adoption, maintaining a diverse pool of adoptive families (e.g. families of color, bilingual families, same-sex partners, and single parents), and providing a wide range of post-adoption support services for birth and adoptive families.
- Adoption Mosaic is a non-profit organization providing educational resources and ongoing support to all those whose lives are influenced by adoption.
- Birthmom Buds is an organization and website that provides peer counseling, support, encouragement, and friendship to pregnant women considering adoption as well as women who have already placed children for adoption.
