Statement of Jocelyn Frye, President of the National Partnership for Women & Families WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 23, 2024 – Today, the Biden administration published a final rule to support higher pay and better work-family balance for workers by...
Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA) Coalition Letter to Congress
LETTER | 28 organizations urge Congress to cosponsor the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA), a bill that would create a statutory right for health care providers to provide abortion care and a right for their patients to receive that care.
Minimum Wage and Abortion Access
In the United States, people with lower incomes, people with disabilities, and people of color have never fully enjoyed reproductive freedom. Whether a person wants to have a child or wants to not have children, their ability to exercise these rights has consistently...
Bad Medicine: The Government’s Restriction on Medication Abortion
ISSUE BRIEF | Governmental attacks on women’s reproductive health are escalating, putting ideology above science. But the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has an opportunity to help remedy this dire situation, and to enable – rather than impede – people’s access to...
Abortion Access in Jeopardy: June Medical Services v. Gee
Abortion access in the nation is yet again under severe threat as the Supreme Court considers a challenge to a Louisiana admitting privileges law known as Act 620. Act 620 requires physicians who provide abortion to maintain admitting privileges with a hospital within...
Access at Risk: Abortion Bans of 2019
In 2019, we saw a surge of laws restricting reproductive rights. Anti-abortion politicians passed a total of 58 abortion restrictions, including 26 bans on abortion.
The D.C. Medicaid Abortion Ban: Disastrous Policy for Low-Income D.C. Residents
This disastrous policy impacts 55,000 D.C. women of reproductive age enrolled in Medicaid; pushing abortion care out of reach for many.
Paid Sick Days Enhance Women’s Abortion Access and Economic Security
Everyone needs time to access health care without risking their economic stability. Paid sick days allow a person to recover from short-term illnesses, access preventive care, undergo a basic medical procedure or care for a sick child or family member. Yet, more than...
Bad Medicine: Admitting Privileges Requirement Undermines Abortion Access in Louisiana
Abortion access in Louisiana is hanging by a thread as we anticipate what will happen in the state if an admitting privileges requirement is allowed to go into effect.
Bad Medicine: How a Political Agenda Is Undermining Abortion Care and Access in Oklahoma
Bad Medicine: How a Political Agenda is Undermining Abortion Care and Access, a 2018 report by the National Partnership for Women & Families, finds that a large majority of states have one or more of these “bad medicine” laws. Oklahoma is a key offender.
Bad Medicine: How a Political Agenda Is Undermining Abortion Care and Access in Kansas
Bad Medicine: How a Political Agenda is Undermining Abortion Care and Access, a 2018 report by the National Partnership for Women & Families, finds that a large majority of states have one or more of these “bad medicine” laws. Kansas is a key offender.
We Decide: Demanding the Policies Pregnant People Need to Thrive
Subhead (larger intro copy) When it comes to pregnancy and parenting, we all want to make the best decisions for our families and ourselves so that we can thrive.
Bad Medicine: How a Political Agenda Is Undermining Abortion Care and Access — Third Edition
This report explains how bad medicine laws undermine the high-quality, patient-centered care that health care providers and advocates strive to achieve.
Bad Medicine: How a Political Agenda is Undermining Women’s Health Care (Texas Edition)
Texas has led the country in the proliferation of "bad medicine" laws that mandate how health care providers must practice medicine, regardless of the provider's professional judgment, ethical obligations or the needs of his or her patients.
A Double Bind: When States Deny Abortion Coverage and Fail to Support Expecting and New Parents
Every person should have the freedom to decide if, when and how to raise a family. But for many women struggling to make ends meet, this is not reality. Instead, they face layers of obstacles, including denial of access to abortion care and a lack of workplace supports.
The EACH Woman Act (S. 758/H.R. 1692): Ensuring Equal Access to Abortion Coverage for Every Woman
The ability to make personal health care decisions should not depend on how much money a woman makes or where she gets her health insurance. This groundbreaking legislation would put an end to politicians denying women insurance coverage for medical care they need.
Lies Memo on 251 Anti-Abortion Restrictions Introduced in 37 States
Over the past five years, anti-abortion legislators have quietly passed hundreds of restrictive abortion laws. These laws try to prevent a woman from getting abortion care, even when that means lying to her, delaying her care, requiring unnecessary tests, making care...
Whole Woman’s Health v. Cole (Hellerstedt) Amicus Brief (January 2016)
Brief of experts in health policy as amici curiae in support of petitioners (No. 15-274).
The Patient Trust Act: Model Legislation for Getting Politics out of the Exam Room
The Patient Trust Act addresses the serious and growing problem of laws that impose politics and ideology on clinical care. This dangerous trend threatens evidence-based, patient-centered medicine, the delivery of quality care, and public health.
Bad Medicine
States across the country are increasingly enacting laws mandating how health care providers must practice medicine, regardless of the provider’s professional judgment and the needs of his or her patients. As this report explains, these laws undermine the high...
Banning Coverage of Abortion in Multi-State Insurance Plans: Moving in the Wrong Direction
The “Stop Abortion Funding in Multi-State Exchange Plans Act” or “SAFE Act” (H.R. 346), and the Senate version of this badly misnamed legislation, the “Preventing the Offering of Elective Coverage of Taxpayer-Funded-Abortion Act of 2013” or “PROTECT Act” (S. 154),...