Access List

MISSION & VALUES

The Access List, originally launched by RHEDI, is a private discussion group for family medicine clinicians, educators, learners, and others who provide abortion/sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care, are involved in abortion/SRH training, or support this care or training within the family medicine/primary care community.  Discussion topics can include clinical, educational and administrative issues in offering abortion (medication and procedural) and SRH care within family medicine. The List’s goal is to educate and share practical information that broadens our understanding about training and delivery of abortion and SRH services within family medicine. 

Eligibility and Process to join the Access List. 

The Access List aims to center these values, intentions, and actions:

• A welcoming environment for List members to learn from and support each other
• A space that elevates family medicine and primary care perspectives in SRH
• The SRH needs of historically excluded people, including Black and Indigenous people and People of Color, LGBTQIA+ people, and people with disabilities
• A commitment to anti-racism in patient care, education and advocacy
• Expansion of abortion access and rights
• A commitment to uplift the voices of clinicians who are historically and currently excluded or marginalized
• Honesty, curiosity, and life-long learning

  The Access List does not support viewpoints that are anti-abortion, racist or discriminatory.

ACCESS LIST COMMUNITY GUIDELINES AND AGREEMENTS

We value the fact that Access List members are a heterogeneous group, representing different geographical regions, lived experiences, and political ideologies. While the Access List remains a private forum, open only to screened members, we acknowledge that email listservs are inherently vulnerable to public exposure and legal discovery. It is in this context that we recognize the need to more clearly define, and attest to, a set of commonly agreed upon community guidelines that seek to promote a culture of physical, legal, and psychological safety for ALL our members, while avoiding unnecessary censorship.

Please review the following community guidelines. Your attestation confirms your agreement to uphold these expectations as requisite to ongoing participation in our shared community.

As a member of the Access List community, I AGREE TO:

1. Value the contributions of all Access List members, regardless of their positions of Power (formal) or power (informal) within RHAP, any academic or community-based organization, or the SRH community in general.
2. Cultivate a respectful environment where members feel that they can learn, share, grow, and contribute while being respected, dignified and safe. I will bear personal responsibility to make this space safer by disengaging from discriminatory and abusive practices and/or challenging them when I witness them.
3. Be mindful of the way in which I engage and reflect on the role I play in positively or negatively affecting other members, recognizing that discussions of dehumanization, dispossession, colonization, exclusion and marginalization affect people differently and inequitably.
4. Acknowledge that everything stated on this List could appear in court or public forums and thus put fellow List members in legal jeopardy. Unless I send an off-list message, I understand my messages go to all members’ inboxes and are discoverable. Thus I will avoid referencing specific actions that may be illegal in some states, or specific patients, clinicians, activists, or groups in a way that could directly connect them to criminalized activities and instead invite participants to move such conversations to a more secure encrypted platform, such as Signal. (We encourage you to review the Activist Handbook resource, as well as Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Surveillance Self-Defense Guide for guidance on internet security).
5. Abide by the Community Guideline Violations Procedures as described here.

As a member of the Access List community, I AGREE TO NOT:

1. Attack others with whom I disagree as these discussions are meant to facilitate the exchange of ideas and information. In addition, I will be mindful of the space I take up. If I have posted on several occasions, I will reflect on whether I am giving space for others to participate.
2. Forward list postings to non-subscribers. I will ensure that any information I re-use is free of names, phone numbers, emails, websites, institutional affiliations and other identifying information.
3. Use language that is abusive, belittling, intimidating, harassing or derogatory toward any individual or group either internal or external to the Access List. Any posts that traffic in racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist or religiously-targeted aggression or stereotypes will not be tolerated and will be handled in a manner as delineated in the Community Guideline Violations Procedures.