The Eastern Massachusetts Abortion (EMA) Fund works to reduce social and economic barriers to abortion care and bodily autonomy through movement building, advocacy, education, and direct aid.

We envision a world where every person has the right to bodily self-determination, where every person has the right to determine their own future.

Our Purpose

The EMA Fund's goal is to make abortion accessible to all who need it.

We believe that access to abortion and bodily autonomy is a matter of reproductive and racial justice, and a human right. To achieve our purpose, we: allocate funds equitably to ensure that people without adequate resources can have safe and timely abortions and reproductive care; eliminate barriers such as language, transportation, and lodging; assist eligible callers to the EMA Fund in obtaining MassHealth (Medicaid) coverage; and collaborate with health care providers, grassroots organizers, activists, and other local and national funds.

Our Values

The following values guide all fundraising, programmatic, and organizational decisions and actions for the EMA Fund:

National Network of Abortion Funds

The EMA Fund is one of more than 100 abortion funds around the country. We are a member of the National Network of Abortion Funds.

  • We believe that every person has a right to an abortion, for any reason. We believe that every person is the expert in their own life and we want all people to be able to make their own decisions without judgment, shame, or barriers to access

  • We must be answerable to each other, to the community we serve, and to our stakeholders, both in terms of what principles we uphold and work towards and the actual, concrete results of our actions, regardless of intentions. We have a moral responsibility to reduce harm, to treat everyone with dignity and compassion, and to listen and to learn when we’re told we have failed in that responsibility.

  • We recognize that inequitable access to healthcare, including abortion care, is tied to overlapping forms of oppression such as racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, transphobia, and ableism. We specifically commit to the ongoing work it takes to be an anti-racist organization. “We recognize that systemic racism, through decades of policies and practices that continue to this day, has benefited white people and harmed people of color. We understand systemic racism is a root cause of the persistent economic, political, social, and health disparities facing communities of color. We stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter and other organizations working for justice, respect, and dignity for communities of color.”(Credit to https://nwaafund.org/about/ for this framing.)

  • We can create the greatest change as a community of individuals and organizations working towards the same goals. Power to break down systems of oppression comes from our combined voices, which as individuals we would not have. We recognize that our actions and goals will intersect with other organizations and community groups, and we make space to consider how we can further their missions or partner with them.

  • We affirm the humanity of ourselves and of others and that we have a responsibility to treat everyone with respect and care. Compassion is how we establish our process of advocating for ourselves and others in order to communicate, learn, decide, and serve in abundance, with accountability, and without stigma. Compassion is an intentional atmosphere we create to hold space for the way change happens.

  • We recognize that systemic and historical oppression calls for more than a push for mere equality, but rather a movement towards remedying imbalances of power and systems of oppression. We aim to center our work around making a more equitable world and meeting the needs of those we serve, and we acknowledge that equity goes beyond the needs of each individual to those of communities as a whole. We believe that equity is key to justice, and entails each of us getting what we need to thrive.