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.
I notice a similarity to this post.
Somebody writes about an issue that happens to be a popular mainstream cause and asks, "how can I be most effective at doing good, given that I want to work specifically on this cause?"
I'm not saying the two issues are remotely equivalent. Obviously, to argue "this should be an EA cause area" would require very different arguments, and one might be much stronger than the other. With Ukraine, maybe you could justify it as being adjacent to nuclear risk, but the post wasn't talking about nuclear risk. Maybe close to being about preventing great power conflict, but the post wasn't talking about that, either. So, like this post, it is outside of the "standard" EA cause areas.
This comment seems to imply that if somebody is posting about a cause that isn't within the "standard" cause areas, then they should need to justify posting about it as to why this would be better than other cause areas. They cannot "leave that exercise to the reader." The first paragraph of this comment makes a meta-level point that suggests people shouldn't even post about an issue and let readers debate it in the comments (which, in fairness, is not what the author of this post did, when explicitly asking for it not to be debated in the comments after this comment was written). Instead, the author themselves must make a case for the object-level merits of the cause.
It seems others might agree, given that this comment has more karma than the original post (edit: this may or may not be currently true, but it was true at the time of this comment). If people on the forum have these beliefs about meta-level discussion norms, then I ask: why apply it to abortion and not Ukraine?
I strongly suspect that the answer is that people are letting their object-level opinions of issues subtly motivate their meta-level opinions of discussion norms. I'd rather that not happen.