Plan C's Road Trip Takes Abortion Access to the People

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Plan C’s Road Trip Takes Abortion Access to the People
PUBLISHED 6/12/2025 by Carrie N. Baker

Now in its second year, the Plan C Community Road Trip is rolling through all 50 states with one clear mission: Make abortion pills visible, accessible and impossible to ignore.



Plan C and Knoxville Abortion Justice Alliance (KAJA) volunteers and staff at the Cattywampus Puppet Parade and Block Party on May 18 in Knoxville, Tenn. (Courtesy of Plan C)

In the wake of sweeping state-level abortion bans and restrictions, one defiant campaign is truly taking a different route—literally. For the second year in a row, Plan C, the intrepid grassroots campaign for abortion pill access, is hitting the road on a cross-country trip to spread the word about abortion pills: that they are safe, effective and available to everyone, everywhere. Plan C is teaming up with grassroots organizers in all 50 states, Guam and Puerto Rico to share abortion pill information through “pop-ups, panels, performances, and bold community activations centered on truth, agency, and access.”

‍“The Plan C community road trip is our way of showing up organically and authentically in places we wouldn’t typically be in,” said Plan C community organizer Lauren Hattaway on the importance of collaborating with grassroots activists to reach people in local communities. “If it’s not coming from a trusted resource, it’s just information on a page. It’s also our way of highlighting the work that’s already happening on the ground, showing people that help is already here in your community.” At each stop, Plan C joins local advocates to amplify ongoing abortion access efforts already on the ground and shares information about the multiple avenues available to obtain abortion pills—including telehealth abortion, community support networks that distribute pills for free, and e-commerce websites selling abortion pills in all 50 states and U.S. territories. The Plan C website offers a state-by-state guide—cutting through legal confusion and political fear to outline available options.


A panel after a performance of The Turnaway Play. (Courtesy of Plan C)

The 2025 Plan C Road Trip launched on April 27 in Los Angeles with a powerful performance of The Turnaway Play, based on Dr. Diane Green Foster’s groundbreaking research on what happens when women are denied abortion care. From there, the team hit the road—stopping in New York City for the annual Physicians for Reproductive Health Voices of Courage Benefit (featuring John Oliver), speaking with theater students at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, joining for the Florida NOW conference in Orlando, collaborating with the Knoxville Abortion Justice Alliance (KAJA) Pop up in Tennessee and teaming up with Punk Rock Saves Lives in Boise, Idaho. With more than 100 stops—up from 76 last year—the tour is louder, larger and reaches deeper into communities across the county. Running through Nov. 12, the road trip transforms everyday spaces into sites of reproductive resistance. From comedy shows and tabling at farmers markets, to wine flight nights, craft nights on college campuses, Pride events, trivia nights and musical festivals like Bonnaroo in Manchester, Tenn., and Lallapalooza in Chicago—abortion access is showing up.
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Plan C community organizer Lauren Hattaway. (Courtesy of Plan C)
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Physicians for Reproductive Health’s Voices of Courage Benefit in May in in New York City. (Courtesy of Plan C)

Plan C also provides information about how people are obtaining abortion pills in advance to have on hand just in case, as well as supportive resources, such as the Miscarriage and Abortion Hotline; Reprocare Healthline and Repro Legal Helpline. This information is a vital lifeline to women living in states banning abortion as well as those facing other legal, financial and medical barriers to abortion access in all states and U.S. territories.The Plan C Community Road Trip isn’t just a tour—it’s a radical feminist strategy to reclaim public space, draw abortion pills out of the shadows and make them visible, accessible and unignorable in every corner of the country.

https://msmagazine.com/2025/06/12/abortion-pills-plan-c-road-trip-summer/