On Halloween night, as kids went trick or treating across the U.S., the Chicago Abortion Fund (CAF) hosted an emergency gathering for supporters and funders. The goal was to raise more funds to meet the increasing demand to access abortion care, regardless of who would win the presidential election the following week.
“CAF has spent all year growing our development capacity and sounding the alarm of the abortion access current crisis, and specifically the funding crisis,” Qudsiyyah Shariyf, the interim executive director of the Chicago Abortion Fund, told Salon. “We knew then that regardless of the election’s outcome, we need increased investment in our organization.”
