Mission
If/When/How defends and furthers reproductive justice in courts, capitols, and communities.
Vision
We are creating a future where every one of us has the power and support to make decisions about our bodies, families, and communities, without barriers, coercion, or punishment, in safety and with dignity.
Meet Our Staff
NEW! We’re proud to share our 2025 strategic plan!
Our new strategic direction leverages our deep legal knowledge, our client-centered values, and program expertise to meet the increase in state violence, reproductive oppression, and authoritarianism of 2025 and beyond.
It’s ambitious, responsive, and gives us a sturdy blueprint to create a future where every one of us has the power and support to make decisions about our bodies, families, and communities, without barriers, coercion, or punishment, in safety and with dignity.
Download our 2025 Strategic PlanOur Values
Collaboration
We know state violence touches many parts of people’s lives—so we work in coalitions with movement organizations, cross-movement partners, and community groups, to respond to people’s immediate legal needs, create new laws, and change culture.
Impact
If/When/How works where we can make the biggest impact—for our individual clients, for each caller, for the legal landscape across the country, and for reproductive justice on the whole.
Rigor
Our staff bring a thoughtful, high-quality approach to our work to ensure that our partners and clients receive excellent resources and services, because we know that marginalized communities often receive second-class care.
Client-centeredness
Our work is rooted in the needs of our clients and people experiencing reproductive oppression. We design our services, resources, and advocacy to be trauma-informed and responsive to the real-life situations of our clients.
Our Guiding Frameworks
Reproductive justice
The Reproductive Justice framework teaches us that changing laws is necessary, but not sufficient, to ensure that people can make decisions about their sexuality, childbearing, and family formation with dignity.
Anti-racism
In a country whose legal systems were formed to uphold racial hierarchies and marginalization of particular communities, transforming the law to safeguard people’s rights requires acknowledging and actively dismantling these racial hierarchies.
Harm reduction
Harm reduction affirms the inherent dignity of each person, and their right to safety and well-being without punishment or control: everyone deserves to be healthy and safe regardless of whether their decisions conform to the law.
Mutual aid
People exist and thrive in communities that have always tended to one another’s well-being; resourcing networks of care alleviates need and supports flourishing.
Abolition of punitive state systems
Punitive state systems have failed to advance justice because they were created to perpetuate stigma and marginalization, which will continue to exist until those systems are abolished. State systems should offer support, not punishment or control.
Our Theory of Change
We transform both lives and laws by protecting and defending people targeted for state violence because of the decisions they make about their bodies and their families.
Our client-centered approach to the work builds power and safeguards individual rights while paving the way for long-term legal and cultural transformation.
✻ By providing client-centered legal services and wraparound support, we stop state violence in people’s reproductive lives, and build precedents and support systems that will help people who come after.
✻ By learning from our clients and our cases, we understand harmful patterns and develop strategies to intervene and prevent state violence.
✻ By sharing what we have learned, we equip advocates, inform policymakers, and catalyze a growing network of lawyers and activists with the knowledge they need to shift narratives, laws, and systems.
Join Us
You can help us defend people in courts, capitols, and communities! Learn how to use your power to stop reproductive oppression whether you’re a lawyer, law student, or advocate.