The Abortion Access Report 2/23/2026
If you thought “leave it to the states” meant stability, think again. Today’s headlines prove the goal isn’t compromise—it’s closure, criminalization, and personhood creep.
The Headline: Abortion clinics are closing, even in states that have become key access points
TLDR:
🏥Clinics Closing Even In “Safe” States
Yea remember when “leave it to the states” lawmakers said people can just go to another state for abortion? Well, a new Guttmacher report shows clinics are closing EVERYWHERE, even states that protect access, like New York.
❓WHY, THO?
Attacks on funding, providers, and abortion medication are making it damn near impossible to keep the lights on. Which is a HUGE PROBLEM for entire swaths of the country who have been evicted from healthcare in their own state.
🤷♀️What’s An Abortion Baddy To Do?
It’s more important than EVER to support independent clinics that do the majority of abortions in the US. Go to keepourclinics.org to donate to help make sure the doors stay open on abortion access!
The Headline: Puerto Rico Amends Penal Code to Recognize Fetus as Human Being in Murder Statute
TLDR:
🇵🇷Puerto Rico Says Fetuses Are People
The new language is in the legal statute about MURDER. The governor says it’s to make sure violence against pregnant people is punished. 🙄But WE ALL KNOW it’s a cheat code for banning abortion cuz if fetus=person then abortion=murder.
🩺Healthcare to Homicide In One Easy Step!
This tactic isn’t new, it’s a key element of the anti-abortion “personhood” movement. For DECADES in the US, states have been trying to codify the “life begins at conception” bullshit so that they can stop splitting hairs with restrictions and just slam the door on abortion FOREVER.
🔄 This Vocab Switch is Coming for Everyone
This won’t just criminalize abortion. It makes every miscarriage into a crime scene and doctors into possible accomplices. Locking people up for pregnancy outcomes isn’t being “hard on crime,” it’s declaring war on biology.
The Headline: Tenn. A Bill to Make Abortion Homicide Is Moving
TLDR:
🚔Tennessee Bills Would Treat Abortion as Murder
The Volunteer State is volunteering the human rights of pregnant people to the altar of anti-abortion EXTREMISM by putting forward two bills that would treat abortion as HOMICIDE under the law.
📢Whose Fucking Idea Was This?
The Foundation to Abolish Abortion is leading the national charge for states to lean HARD into punishing people for abortion with life imprisonment or the LITERAL death penalty. No exceptions for rape or incest. These guys are fun at parties.
✊Jailing Pregnant People is Social Justice, Apparently
These laws are the bro-life crowd’s endgame to frame fetuses as victims in need of “equal protection” (lol). It’s misogyny’s most coveted two-for-one deal: give personhood to the fetus, and life in prison to the patient.
Sorry for the bummer to start the week. Hopefully we will have better news tomorrow.
Your AAF Team