States Limit Access to Abortion and the Ballot Box WASHINGTON, D.C. – May 30, 2024 – A new report, Democracy & Abortion Access: Restrictive Voting Laws Threaten Freedoms, by the National Partnership for Women & Families found that the states with...
S. 109: The End of Abortion Coverage
FACT SHEET | S. 109, the deceptively titled "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act," introduced by Sen. Wicker (R-M.S.), is radical legislation that threatens women's access to medical care.
Bad Medicine: Admitting Privileges Requirement Undermines Abortion Access in Louisiana
FACT SHET | 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
ISSUE BRIEF | 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...
Bad Medicine: How a Political Agenda Is Undermining Abortion Care and Access in Kansas
ISSUE BRIEF | 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...
Better Together: Policies to Expand Insurance Coverage and Promote Supportive Workplaces Help Families Thrive
ISSUE BRIEF | This issue brief demonstrates that very few states have policies to address the intersecting needs of women and families, and it outlines how the health and financial security of women and families are positively affected by having comprehensive health...
Bad Medicine: How a Political Agenda Is Undermining Abortion Care and Access — Third Edition
REPORT| This report explains how bad medicine laws undermine the high-quality, patient-centered care that health care providers and advocates strive to achieve.
Nationwide Ban on Abortion at 20 Weeks: Unconstitutional and Dangerous
Since 1973, the United States Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision has protected a woman’s right to abortion. Yet, the so-called "Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act" would directly violate Roe by imposing a nationwide ban on abortion care at 20 weeks.
A Double Bind: When States Deny Abortion Coverage and Fail to Support Expecting and New Parents
ISSUE BRIEF | 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...
Lies Memo on 251 Anti-Abortion Restrictions Introduced in 37 States
MEMO | 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,...
Banning Coverage of Abortion in Multi-State Insurance Plans: Moving in the Wrong Direction
FACT SHEET | 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”...