FACT SHEET | The Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services finalized the HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy on April 26, 2024, in response to the threats to abortion access, health care privacy, and...
The Cumulative Costs of Barriers to Abortion Care
FACT SHEET | The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs, and the state abortion bans that followed, have further curtailed people’s access to essential healthcare and fundamentally undermined people’s autonomy. As a result, pregnant people encounter many costs – including...
State Abortion Bans Harm More Than Three Million Disabled Women
ISSUE BRIEF | Nearly two years later, the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade continues to undermine disabled people's reproductive freedom and dignity, threaten their economic security, and endanger their health and lives.
Systems Transformation Guide to Disability Economic Justice: Income, Wealth Building and Basic Necessities
REPORT | This report addresses the barriers that disabled women face to building wealth, as well as put forth policy proposals that will help address these concerns.
Dobbs’ Erosion of the Health Care Workforce: Harms to Providers and Patients
ISSUE BRIEF | The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, and extreme abortion bans and restrictions passed by states even prior to then, have had far reaching impacts on health care providers and the communities they care for.
2024 Legislative Agenda
We call on Congressional champions for women's health and economic security to cosponsor and push for passage of the following priority bills in 2024.
Why Women Need the U.S. Department of Labor’s Independent Contractor Rule
FACT SHEET | Misclassification of workers as independent contractors deprives many women of critically important protections for equal pay and accommodations for breastfeeding.
Systems Transformation Guide to Disability Economic Justice: Public Benefits
REPORT | This report address critical public benefit programs – such as Social Security, TANF, LIHEAP, the ACP, SNAP, WIC, Medicaid and Medicare – their impacts on disabled women and the improvements that would enhance the economic security of disabled...
Economic and Health Justice for Women and Families in South Carolina
FACT SHEET | South Carolinian women need livable wages, supportive workplace policies such as paid family and medical leave, comprehensive health care access, and access to abortion – and they need a democracy that allows for their voices to be heard
Realizing the Transformational Potential of Maternity Care Payment Reform
REPORT | Health care payment reform – and especially alternative payment models (APMs) that tie payment to performance – are widely believed to be an important lever for achieving crucial quality improvements.
Technical Supplement to Realizing the Transformational Potential of Maternity Care Payment Reform
Methodology and Summaries of Maternity Care Episode Payment and Maternity Care Home Programs
The SSI Savings Penalty Elimination Act Will Support Women’s Economic Security
FACT SHEET | The SSI Savings Penalty Elimination Act would support and uplift the more than 4 million women and girls who rely on SSI, including nearly 3.3 million women and girls who are eligible for SSI because they are blind or disabled, as well as 723,000 women...
Financing Sustainable Paid Family and Medical Leave Programs
ISSUE BRIEF | This brief examines key policy design features related to paid leave program finances and reviews the financial state of these programs to offer lessons and best practices for policymakers.
Model State Paid Family and Medical Leave Statute
A resource for drafting a new paid family and medical leave bill at the state level, created in collaboration with A Better Balance.
Systems Transformation Guide to Disability Economic Justice: Food Insecurity, Housing and Transportation
REPORT | The first report in this series discussed barriers that disabled women face in obtaining and maintaining employment. Many of these barriers are exacerbated by a lack of safe, stable, accessible and affordable housing and transportation.
Key Terms & Resource Directory for Equity-Centered Payment Reform
This resource explains key terms and concepts for equity-centered payment reform and identifies key publications to support advocates.
Leveraging Value-Based Payment to Advance Health Equity
CASE STUDY | We need to change how (and for what) providers are paid, in order to support and incentivize equitable, high-quality primary care. The new Making Care Primary (MCP) model recently released by the CMS Innovation Center (CMMI) is a significant step forward.
Black Women’s Maternal Health: A Multifaceted Approach to Addressing Persistent and Dire Health Disparities
REPORT | The reproductive health of Black women has long been compromised by interpersonal, institutional, and structural racism. In addition to contending with social and economic drivers of poor health that undermine Black Americans, they have experienced...
Leading the Way
REPORT | Reproductive Healthcare Providers that are Raising the Bar for their Patients and Communities
House Fiscal Year 2024 Appropriations Bills Reveal An Extreme Agenda That Would Set Women Back Decades
FACT SHEET | The Fiscal Year 2024 appropriations bills put forward by House Republican leaders make clear their intent to continue the unrelenting efforts of extremists to erode women’s rights and eliminate hard-won protections essential to women's survival.
