stories & voices

Submit your story using our online story submission form. In our form, we will ask for your preferred contact method and contact safety questions.

You get to choose how you want us to share your story, and if you want us to share it at all.

You get to choose if we can share your story with your first name only or share it anonymously with no name.

We ask for your contact information to verbally confirm that you are okay with us sharing your story in the ways you have selected.

After submitting your story, a member from the Cobalt Abortion Fund or Cobalt Advocates team will reach out to you within 14 business days to confirm your permission to share it. We primarily reach out by texting or calling, but we take your safety seriously. Depending on the communication preferences you indicate on the story form, we will reach out by call, text, and/or email.

Once connected, we will confirm what name, if any, you are comfortable sharing with your story. We can share it with your first name only or share it anonymously with no name.

Then, we’ll go over the possible ways in which Cobalt Abortion Fund and Cobalt Advocates may use your story, and confirm your permission to share your story in the spaces and circumstances that feel most comfortable for you.

If we don’t hear back from you after reaching out three times, we will mark your story as not to be shared, and it will be removed from our database. Regardless of what name you choose to use, all of your identifying and contact information will be removed from our database within 6 months.

We will use your story as you wrote it, with your voice and language. We may make minor adjustments to account for grammar or use excerpts from your story rather than the whole thing. Other than that, we will not make any changes to your story. If you would like to review what you wrote before agreeing to share it, please let us know.

You do not have to. Your story is yours, and it is completely up to you to decide if you want to share it.

When submitting your story, you get to choose if we can share it with your first name only or share it anonymously with no name.

• After submitting your story, a member from the Cobalt Abortion Fund or Cobalt Advocates team will reach out to you within 14 business days to confirm your permission to share it. We primarily reach out by texting or calling, but we take your safety seriously. Depending on the communication preferences you indicate on the story form, we will reach out by call, text, and/or email.
• Once connected, we will confirm what name, if any, you are comfortable sharing with your story. We can share it with your first name only or share it anonymously with no name.
• Then, we’ll go over the possible ways in which the Cobalt Abortion Fund and Cobalt Advocates may use your story, and confirm your permission to share your story in the spaces and circumstances that feel most comfortable for you.
• If we don’t hear back from you after reaching out three times, we will mark your story as not to be shared, and it will be removed from our database. Regardless of what name you choose to use, all of your identifying and contact information will be removed from our database within 6 months.

We will use your story as you wrote it, with your voice and language. We may make minor adjustments to grammar or use excerpts from your story rather than the whole thing. Other than that, we will not make any changes to your story without your permission.

If you would like to review what you wrote before agreeing to share it, please let us know when we contact you to confirm your permission to share your story.

If you ever want your story removed from Cobalt public spaces, please contact our team at info@cobaltadvocates.org, and we can remove your story from Cobalt websites and Cobalt social media platforms.

Please note that while we do have the ability to remove your contact and identifying information from our internal database, websites, and social media, once your story is shared with the public, we cannot guarantee that your story and the name you decided to use with it have not been shared outside of Cobalt spaces. Whenever anything is shared in a public space, people have the ability to screenshot and reshare. Unfortunately, we do not have control over this.

The story form on this particular website is dedicated to story tellers who have received funding support from Cobalt. However, we know that abortion seekers who have not received support from Cobalt may still wish to share their story with us. If you have an abortion experience or story that you would like to share with us but have not worked with Cobalt Abortion Fund directly, we would still love to hear it. You can submit that story through our Cobalt Advocates story form here.