In 2015, Men4Choice launched from a Chicago bar with a simple belief: pro-choice men need to get off the sidelines and into the fight as allies for reproductive freedom. A decade later, that vision is real, and at a moment when reaching young men has never been more urgent. We’re organizing thousands of young men in person and reaching millions online, reshaping how young men show up.

2025 was a devastating year for reproductive rights, and we’re working hard to meet the moment.  There are no shortcuts. Today, we’re proud to share our 2025 Impact Report. If you read it, I’d love your thoughts: what stands out, and what do you think we should double down on?

If you believe engaging men in this fight is essential, consider a donation. Men4Choice is the only organization bringing young men into this movement at scale – and with your support, we’ll double our impact again this year, as we did from 2024 to 2025.

To all who believe that engaging men in this fight is critical, consider making a donation today to help us grow our work. Men4Choice is the only organization in the country bringing men into this fight at scale. With your help, I think we can DOUBLE our reach in the next few years.

To the leaders of this movement and all those impacted by abortion bans: we stand with you, and we won’t stop until every man who believes in reproductive freedom is in this fight.

Ten years ago, in the spring of 2015, Men4Choice was launched to change the way men think, speak, and act as allies and stakeholders in this fight. A decade later there is no doubt that we’ve helped transform the way men engage. Starting in Illinois, we’re now organizing year round in Georgia, North Carolina, and Florida, while expanding into Arizona and Wisconsin. Thousands of men took action with us last year and millions more engaged with our content and campaigns. Today, we’re proud to share our full 2024 Impact Report, which outlines the full breadth and depth of our work.

2024 was a difficult year, but it’s important to remember the vast majority of Americans support reproductive freedom and support for abortion rights has never been higher. Last year, we trained 80 new organizers as part of our Youth Fellowship program who organized 240 educational events. We held 30 more community engagement events in seven states, including working alongside the Second Gentlemen of the United States. We released the results of a first-of-its-kind field study in partnership with researchers at Yale University to demonstrate the power of our model and messaging to move men. We launched a first-of-its-kind culture change campaign which garnered millions of views and nominations for prestigious awards. We organized more than 50 GOTV events through our 501(c)(4) arm, Men4Choice Advocacy, filling more than 1400 volunteer shifts for our partners and engaging more than 800,000 voters. It’s no wonder people often said to us that “it’s like you’re everywhere!”

Following the overturning of Roe v. Wade in the summer of 2022, we saw an all-out assault on reproductive freedom across the country. Overturning Roe was just the first step in our opposition’s plan to ban and criminalize abortion across the country. While many of us have known and have been preparing for this for a long time, that reality came into sharp focus for many in 2023. Laws banning and criminalizing abortion passed in more than a dozen states and these laws were overwhelmingly passed by male elected officials, who cast more than 80% of the votes across the country to ban abortion. In the midst of this new landscape, Men4Choice doubled down on our commitment to growing our movement and engaging more pro-choice allies than ever before. We doubled the number of Youth Fellows we’ve trained as organizers, launched new partnerships with national leaders, and took our message and strategy of activating passive male allies to a global audience.

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2022 was an incredibly difficult year for all those who care about reproductive freedom. Over the summer, Roe v. Wade was overturned when the Supreme Court ruled in Dobbs v. Jackson that there was no constitutional right to an abortion, rolling back rights and access to abortion for millions and turning back the clock 50 years. While we hoped to avoid this reality, we were prepared. Our strategy for several years has been built under the assumption that this would happen and with an eye to the short and long term work needed to help restore rights and ensure equitable access to abortion care for all. We know that there is no other option but for us to educate, train, and organize the next generation of allies and supporters in this fight and that is exactly what we focused on.

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2021 also posed similar challenges to 2020 for us in terms of organizing during a pandemic and amidst all out attacks on reproductive freedom, both at the state and federal level. This year, in line with our goal of shifting the narrative on reproductive rights and abortion access and educating our base of male-identifying allies, we launched an incredibly successful digital campaign called “Control Is Their Goal”. This campaign was inspired by yet another draconian effort to restrict abortion, through a spousal consent bill in Tennessee, and helped allies understand that the actual agenda and driving force behind oppressive anti-abortion laws, and the anti-choice movement itself, is controlling pregnant peoples’ bodies. Over just 45 days, our content generated 8.8M+ impressions and 1.3M+ engagements across Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, and also helped us grow our online presence significantly.

The primary focus of our educational, capacity-building, and organizing program was to expand and build upon the success of the Youth Fellowship Program we piloted in 2020. Over spring and summer 2021, our fellows organized 60 different community conversations, activating and educating 300+ new allies and bringing them into this work. Finally, in the fall of 2021 we launched our first ever state-based cohorts in Georgia and Florida, alongside a third multi-state cohort. Our fall fellows hosted more than 50 community conversations with their peers during the fall fellowship and we engaged 800+ new young allies into our work in 2021.This is critical capacity-building work, focused on training and organizing a pipeline of young allies who are ready to step up and take action in their communities to expand reproductive freedom.

In terms of our advocacy work, without question the single most impactful thing we did in 2021  (through Men4Choice Advocacy) is working as partners in a broad coalition to repeal Illinois’ harmful PNA (parental notice of abortion) law – a law that put young people trying to access an abortion in harm’s way by putting unnecessary barriers in their path. This victory was the result of several years of work by an amazing group of Illinois-based organizations. As partners in this fight, we were able to make a significant contribution to organizing efforts against PNA across Illinois. We contacted 125,000+ voters directly in key legislative districts. Men4Choice also uplifted the coalition’s awareness-building content across our digital platforms, and our ‘Repeal PNA’ digital content reached 500,000+ voters in key districts. Moving forward, young people in Illinois will have access to full reproductive health care, including abortion, without unnecessary legal burdens, and with the freedom to involve those they feel truly safe and supported by when they access care.

There is no doubt in our minds that 2022 will be one of the most critical and pivotal years for reproductive freedom and abortion access in this country. And our goal at Men4Choice is to leverage every successful strategy we’ve developed over the past few years, expand on our organizing and digital tactics, and leave it all on the field to turn out the vote, as well as support our partners with their work in our target states.

Thank you to all of our partners who helped us be better allies in 2021.

Launched in 2015 in Illinois, Men4Choice has been building and testing its organizing model as an effective allyship organization in the movement for reproductive freedom for the last five years. In 2019, we began conversations with national and local partners to expand our work in other states in 2020. Just as we launched our expansion plan in early 2020, we found ourselves in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic which demanded that we rethink how we organize and show up for our communities and the movement.

As we know, anti-choice advocates and lawmakers across our nation have only taken advantage of the pandemic to target the most vulnerable among us. They’ve continued to push their agenda of restricting abortion access and forcing pregnant people to take on increasingly greater risks to access essential reproductive health care. The fight for reproductive freedom and building an educated and organized base of allies to join this fight is not one that we can put on pause, even during a global health crisis. Hence, Men4Choice pivoted our 2020 plans to find innovative ways to achieve our mission and support our partners in critical fights on the ground.

In 2020, we built out an exciting and engaging digital organizing strategy to activate, train, and organize thousands of new male allies. We created avenues for allies to show up and organize with our partners, when in-person organizing was impossible. We created bold and engaging social media content that called out the hypocrisy of the anti-choice movement and engaged millions across our platforms, while our calls to action mobilized thousands of our members during rapid response moments. We were well-positioned to do this because our organization prioritized a digital-first approach with our expansion. A nimble operation was able to pivot quickly as the situation demanded.

This year, we also piloted several new training and organizing programs, the success of which reinforced the fact that there are pro-choice allies waiting on the sidelines, eager for guidance and calls to action to step up in this fight. Going forward, in 2021 and beyond, our goal will be to build on the successes and lessons learned this year, expand and strengthen our educational and organizing program, and continue to invest deeply in our culture-shifting and narrative-building work.

Thank you to all of our partners who helped us be better allies in 2020.

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