Rhodes College Alumni for Reproductive Rights

08/09/2022

Y'all, right-wingers are BIG MAD about our effort to hold one of the most powerful people in America ever-so-slightly accountable for her actions (see one example below). In the last two days, this group's organizers have been subjected to threatening calls from nuts who somehow obtained our personal cell phone numbers, and we have also been targeted in our professional lives -- including by a prominent right-wing legal apologist. It's fascinating that the very people who (falsely) claim we're trying to get Amy Coney Barrett -- who has literal lifetime job security -- "canceled" simply because we're asking our alma mater to remove her photo from a wall of honor are simultaneously trying to get one of us fired from his job for using the freedom of speech, petition, and assembly that we are guaranteed as Americans.

Click https://linktr.ee/acbfundforaccess to:

1) Read the letter that has Barrett supporters lying about us, trolling this page, and bullying the organizers;

2) Add your name, and

3) Donate to our fund that benefits Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project (WRRAP).

Yours in Truth, Loyalty, and Service,

Rhodes College Alumni for Reproductive Rights

We turned anger over the Dobbs decision into action to fundraise for WRRAP.

08/07/2022

Several right-leaning blog posts and this FOX news story published articles about our efforts. Click https://linktr.ee/acbfundforaccess to:

1) Read the letter that has right-wing twitter in a huff and trolls coming to this page,
2) Add your name, and
3) Donate to our fund that benefits Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project (WRRAP),

One alumni group at a Tennessee private college is calling for the removal of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett from the School's "hall of fame."

08/06/2022

Now people who can become pregnant in Indiana live in a state with a near total ban on abortion services as a result of the overturning of Roe v. Wade. This is the future we feared when fellow alum Amy Coney Barrett ‘94 was nominated to SCOTUS.

Link to the petition to have Barrett removed from the Rhodes Collefe Hall of Fame: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gfdd5EJ2YtV8Pp0m5d0_SM5HWKRfMeZ21dWKbn3zr1o/edit

Under the bill, abortions can be performed only in hospitals or outpatient centers owned by hospitals, meaning all abortion clinics would lose their licenses.

08/04/2022

Last week, we launched our initiative to raise money for an organization dedicated to getting reproductive care to those who need it most in the wake of the Supreme Court's recent decision revoking the constitutional right to reproductive autonomy. Today, we are introducing the second part of our effort: Petitioning the College to remove Amy Coney Barrett '94 from the Rhodes College Hall of Fame. It is our desire to hold her accountable to the principles of "truth, loyalty, and service," which we all pledged to uphold in the Rhodes College Honor Code.

Our full argument is laid out in the letter, which you may review at the link. In short, we believe her history and her recent actions are at odds with statements she made to the U.S. Senate during her confirmation process. This disjunction, we believe, violates the spirit of that Honor Code.

To join us, please review the letter below and use the link at the end of it to add your name and class year by end of day Friday, August 19. We will also pin the link to sign your name in the comments. We also ask that you please share with your classmates.

Link:

RHODES COLLEGE ALUMNI FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS President Jennifer Collins Rhodes College 2000 North Parkway Memphis, TN 38112 Richard Adams Director of Community Standards Rhodes College 2000 North Parkway Memphis, TN 38112 August 2022 Dear President Collins and Director Adams, We, together w...

07/27/2022

Thank you to all who have donated to the ACB Fund for Access! Please donate at the link below or text 44321 the message 4ACCESS. All donations go directly to and benefit Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project (WRRAP)’s mission to provide access to reproductive care. Excited to share more with you soon!

You may have noticed our amazing logo on the page to donate. It was designed by Rhodes Alumni Bobby Wheaton '99. Thank you, Bobby!!!!

Donate here: https://secure.givelively.org/donate/womens-reproductive-rights-assistance-project-wrrap/acb-fund-for-access-fundraiser

07/25/2022

This is one of the updates for which you have been patiently waiting! Like all of you, we were devastated when the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade came down. We grieved the death of bodily autonomy for anyone who could become pregnant, and we grieved the destruction of the legal principle that undergirds basic rights for LGBTQ+ people and their families as well as a host of other privacy rights.

But, once we were done grieving, we resolved to act. We turned our anger and sadness into concrete action to help people get healthcare and be able to have every option to control their own lives and bodies. Within 24 hours, we formed The ACB Fund for Access. “ACB” stands for “Ab0rtion Care Ban.” We have partnered with an amazing organization, Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project (WRRAP), and 100% of donations go to them to further their mission of providing access to reproductive care.

Whether you are a fellow alum, friend or family member -- or you are simply someone who, like us, is angry and grieving, please help us by donating in support of WRRAP to help them distribute much-needed funds to pregnant people in the states with bans on ab0rtion care in place, or in states where bans are imminent. You can donate directly to them through The ACB Fund for Access at the link below or text 44321 and type 4ACCESS.

Within the next few days, our second, more Rhodes-specific, initiative in response to this crisis will launch, so please stay tuned for that announcement!

In 2020, we raised our voices as fellow Rhodes College alumni against Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court because we knew the day would come when she w...

07/19/2022

Fellow alums, thank you for being patient with us while we considered the best and most constructive response to the role of Amy Coney Barrett '94 in overturning reproductive rights and seriously weakening privacy rights for all Americans. Next week we will use this page to launch two public initiatives. One is very Rhodes-specific and regards Justice Barrett's breach of the fundamental values we learned at Rhodes. The other is a concrete and constructive fundraising effort to support direct assistance to the millions of people whose lives, livelihoods, and basic freedoms Justice Barrett's decision has seriously endangered.

07/05/2022

Hello, all! We are hard at work getting things ready and will let everyone know what the plans are hopefully within the next week (two things!). In the meantime, is there anyone who is a graphic designer who can donate their services to create a logo?

06/28/2022

We are working on a way to share our collective voice as Rhodes alumni, as well as a way we can support those affected by the overturning of Roe. In the meantime, we would like to hear from you. How do you feel about this decision and Justice Barrett’s involvement in it? Please let us know in the comments!

06/26/2022

10/15/2020

This happened yesterday. Fascinating that petitioning the government for a redress of grievances -- the other side of the "right to assembly" coin in the First Amendment -- is the one she couldn't remember.

“Under questioning by Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE), Amy Coney Barrett is unable to name the five freedoms protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. https://t.co/U3KFm5FA97”

10/14/2020

If one thing was clear from the first day of questioning in Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation hearing, it's that the Rhodes value of "truth" doesn't mean the same thing to her as it does to most of our alumni.

Some questions to Trump's Supreme Court nominee should have been gimmes. She demurred.