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Bree Wallace in Tampa, Florida on Nov. 15, 2024. Credit:<\/span> Photo by Dave Decker<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div> Anyone with values rooted in decency, truth and equal rights didn\u2019t have much hope to cling to on Election Night. But on the Friday after Donald Trump took back the White House, Bree Wallace, in her own pointed and no-fuss nature, offered something of a condolence prize.\n

\u201cThese politicians are never coming to save us,\u201d she told WMNF public affairs program \u201cThe Skinny,\u201d adding that connecting to, and knowing, your community, are going to be paramount in the days to come.<\/p>

She was blunt about the intentions of Democrats who didn\u2019t take advantage of supermajorities<\/a> during the Clinton and Obama years and codify Roe v. Wade\u2014the landmark U.S. Supreme Court that more-or-less guaranteed access to abortion.<\/p>

\u201cWe are the only people that are going to keep us safe,\u201d she said.<\/p>

Wallace knows what she\u2019s talking about. For the last two years, the 27-year-old has been Director of Case Management at Tampa Bay Abortion Fund<\/a> (TBAF).<\/p>

In this month\u2019s general election, Florida\u2019s Amendment 4\u2014which would have effectively killed the state\u2019s six-week ban and allowed abortion up to viability\u2014needed to flip roughly 301,084 \u201cno\u201d votes to \u201cyes\u201d to pass the state\u2019s unusually-high 60% threshold for approval.<\/p>

From a busy desk in her Tampa bedroom, Wallace\u2014who also operates the Tampa Period Pantry<\/a> which provides free menstrual products across the city\u2014will instead spend the foreseeable future connecting often scared young people with healthcare that could potentially save their lives.<\/p>

Depending on how far a pregnant-person must travel from the Bay area, the cost for an abortion can fluctuate between $500-$20,000 (as previously reported, the closest state to legally access abortion past 12 weeks of pregnancy is Virginia, more than 700 miles away).<\/p>

Florida Phoenix reported that since Florida\u2019s six-week ban went into effect last May, TBAF had pledged $401,000<\/a> to cover the costs of the procedure and travel for 739 people. And while the Yes On 4 Campaign raised more than $104 million dollars, the organization seems poised to use its apparatus not to help raise money for local abortion funds, but instead tackle mounting legal fees in its fight with the State of Florida.<\/p>

All that combined with the fluctuating nature of donations to abortion funds will only make Wallace\u2019s job harder<\/a>.

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Credit:<\/span> Photo by Dave Decker<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div> But surrounded by pro-choice posters (\u201dEveryone loves someone who had an abortion,\u201d \u201cAbortion access is a community responsibility\u201d) plus more radical signage (\u201cNobody\u2019s free until everybody\u2019s free,\u201d \u201cFuck SCOTUS, we\u2019re doing it anyway\u201d), she is resolute and clear about her choice to avoid hand-wringing over policy and politics and just get to work.<\/p>

Getting it done, after all, is something that Wallace saw her mom do growing up. \u201cShe\u2019s very giving,\u201d Wallace, a lifelong Tampe\u00f1a, said about the single parent who created a good life for her with a cleaning business. Now, Wallace is helping others get their lives in order, too\u2014in many ways, pulling hope out of despair.<\/p>

\u201cI always wanted to help people,\u201d she added. And to do that, Wallace is now going to need all the help she can get.<\/p>

There’s a benefit concert for Tampa Bay Abortion Fund happening Saturday, Nov. 30 at Tampa’s Deviant Libation.<\/a><\/p>

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