With the recent Roe v Wade decision many are thinking about ways to support reproductive rights in America.
I'm not here to argue that this is a global priority or a more important cause area than others. I'm instead here to ask, given one considers reproductive rights in America an important cause area, what actions are most effective to increase things like access to abortion, contraception, and family planning?
I'd be interested in things like studies of what interventions work best, data on what orgs might make most effective use marginal donations, etc.
ETA: I'm not very interested here in discussing the question of if reproductive rights of Americans are an EA cause area. There's one comment about this from user Larks. I'll ask future comments about this topic to be deleted as off topic. I'm only interested here in the question of, assuming you accept this is a cause area to do something about, what can we say about the ways to do the most good assuming that framing. I'm asking it that way because I specifically want to avoid discussing a charged political issue on the forum. If it would make people happy, I'd be just as interested to see a similar question asking for the best ways to restrict access to abortion and contraception.
The purpose of the forum is 'writing that will help us do the most good', not how to effectively pursue some political objective that people care about for non-EA reasons. It is fine to advocate that some novel cause area perhaps could be an EA cause, even if that seems unlikely or highly speculative, but I don't think we should encourage people to post about their personal cause with indifference to whether it could be highly effective. 'How to support abortion' is the topic du jour on a huge variety of online venues; this forum should be focused on what is distinctly EA.
In this case, not only does this seem unlikely to be a top priority by cause-neutral EA lights, EA considerations (e.g. moral circle expansion, caring about future generations, moral uncertainty, total view population ethics, scope sensitivity, and advocating for those who cannot advocate for themselves) seem like they would actually push in the opposite direction: they make abortion look worse, and trying to reduce it seem better, than would appear to a non-EA with similar background. Despite this, I am intuitively somewhat skeptical that trying to reduce abortion would be a top EA cause area either, because it does not seem very neglected.
I wasn't intending to single out you or any specific person when asking that question. More that the community overall seems to collectively have responded differently (in view of up/downvotes). Due to the fact that different people see different posts, it's hardly a controlled experiment, so it could have been just chance who happened to see the post first and make a first impression.