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Yellowhammer Fund February Newsletter

Dear supporters, 

It’s more important than ever to lean into trusted sources for information, news, and resources, and we want to make that as easy as possible to help combat the overwhelming amount of misinformation circulating. 

Let us reintroduce our monthly supporter newsletter – here you’ll find our latest Reproductive Justice updates, catch up on our work here in the Deep South, and find ways to get involved in-person and virtually.

Abortion Funding & Practical Support

In 2025, we won a groundbreaking lawsuit against Alabama’s Attorney General and regained our right to fund legal out-of-state abortions. BIG shoutout to our Healthcare Access Director Kelsea McLain for taking every call and funding every client needing abortion care!

Spread the Love Safer Sex Supply Drive

Help us spread the love this February by sending safer sex supplies to Southerners via our wishlist! This month, the Repro Raven bus is heading to two HBCU campuses in Alabama, so we’d especially love to stock up on the following items:

  • Non-latex condoms
  • Dental dams
  • Emergency Contraceptives
Send Supplies via our Wishlist

Family Justice Program

2026 may have recently started, but our work never stopped. Our Family Justice Manager Shakeyla Sumlin has been ensuring that our community members never have to go unresourced or uncared for. Here’s to another year of direct service and community care.

Alabama Birth Equity Initiative media spotlight

Alabama Policy Advocacy Updates

BREAKING – The “Abstinence-only” sex education bill has been reintroduced in the Alabama Senate as SB 209!

Bills we’re supporting:

  • HB 128: would allow the State Board of Midwifery to accept grants 
  • HB 129: would allow AL midwives to perform newborn screenings
  • HB 54: would defer incarceration for pregnant people until 3 months postpartum

Upcoming Events

Freedom & Flow

This month’s Freedom & Flow included conversations about how we use our anger and continue our work even when fear threatens to stop us. We shared stories of the hope we feel seeing the younger generations speaking up and fully expressing and reclaiming parts of themselves. A common theme we’re seeing is rebirth – the balance of grief and joy while becoming a new version of ourselves and the relational costs of transformation. 

If this sounds like the kind of community you’d like to be a part of please join us on Tuesday 3/3 6:30-8p. You can register here.

Supporter Spotlight: Open Horizon

BIG thank you to Open Horizon for exemplifying the way to move funds meaningfully and intentionally. We are thankful to have been in partnership with Open Horizon since 2022. They have been responsive and eager to offer different degrees of support from funding to leadership trainings, and many more capacity building opportunities. 

We have an abundance of gratitude for everything Open Horizon does for organizations across the nation, and we look forward to a continued partnership with them!

“Open Horizon collaborates with nonprofit partners to uplift leaders and to co-create opportunities advancing racial and social justice.

We seek to build authentic and caring relationships with our partners by centering their well-being, dignity and needs so that we can intentionally support them in ways that they have identified.” – Open Horizon

Volunteer Shoutout

We want to give a huge thank you to our incredible January volunteers who packed 1,000 safer sex kits and helped us send dozens of thank you cards and tax receipts to our 2025 donors via mail.

Want more ways to take action?

Heidi Miller

February 13, 2026

Support Reproductive Justice in the Deep South

The Yellowhammer Fund envisions a society in which reproductive decisions are made free from coercion, shame, or state interference, a society in which individuals and communities have autonomy in making healthy choices regarding their bodies and their futures.

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