FACT SHEET | Maternal and reproductive health care was already facing severe strain, but OBBBA funding cuts have worsened the crisis. Over 65 L&D units and clinics have closed, forcing patients to travel further for care and deeply destabilizing the healthcare safety...
Women’s Health Clinic Closures
LIST | A list of women's health facility closures since the OBBBA through April 2026.
Four Years Post-Dobbs, Clinic Closures and Attacks on Medication Abortion Harm Women of Color Nationwide
ISSUE BRIEF | Four years post-Dobbs, anti-abortion extremists are banning abortion outright, defunding and shuttering reproductive health clinics, blocking telehealth abortion, and restricting medication abortion pills.
Putting Patients at Risk: Extremist Attacks on Emergency Abortion Care
REPORT | Barriers to emergency abortion care access, including state abortion bans and hospital closures, harm maternal health across the United States
Commercial Data Practices for Reproductive Privacy
ISSUE BRIEF | We outline best practices and realistic case studies that will help inform business leaders on why and how they can take proactive measures related to data privacy to protect both consumers and employees, specifically as it relates to reproductive health.
Repeal, Defund and Deauthorize: The 15-Year War Against the ACA
FACT SHEET | The ACA remains widely popular, with a majority of U.S. adults favoring its provisions across political lines. Yet 15 years and over 100 attempts to repeal, defund or deauthorize later, the ACA continues to face political and legislative threats.
Reproductive Health and Data Privacy After Roe: Threats and Opportunities for State Action
ISSUE BRIEF | Health and data privacy are increasingly under threat, leaving people vulnerable to the misuse of their personal information amid the broader landscape of reproductive health and pregnancy criminalization.
Seventeen States Attack HIPAA and Reproductive Health Privacy
ISSUE BRIEF | Four lawsuits from anti-abortion extremists challenging the 2024 HIPAA Privacy Rule are jeopardizing health privacy and threatening to put pregnant people at even greater risk of criminalization for their reproductive care.
Women Are Facing A Crisis In This Country. That’s Bad News for Business.
FACT SHEET | Complex problems resulting from decades of systemic racism and sexism, compounded by attacks on abortion care and health care, have created barriers for women – particularly mothers – from fully participating in the workforce.
Threats on All Fronts
REPORT | We still find that states that have banned or are likely to ban abortion also overwhelmingly fail women on a range of key work and care policies. Yet, we also find that many states have taken key steps to advance women's health and economic freedom, and point...
Black Women and the Care Agenda: Investing in Care Priorities Advances Gender and Racial Justice
ISSUE BRIEF | Black women are family caregivers – and they need flexibility and economic supports to make the best decisions for themselves and their families
Data Privacy & Reproductive Freedom
In order to ensure pregnant people can exercise full autonomy over their bodies and lives on their own terms and without fear of criminalization, data privacy protections are urgently needed.
Project 2025 Threatens Women and Families’ Health and Freedom
INFOGRAPHIC | Project 2025, a 900+ page document created by the Heritage Foundation, serves as a playbook to systematically dismantle the foundation of checks and balances that American democracy rests upon. If implemented, Project 2025 would serve as a draconian tool...
With Abortion on the Ballot in November, 16.5 Million Women Could be Impacted
In the November 2024 election, abortion access will be on the ballot in 10 states. Our analysis shows that more than 16.5 million women of reproductive age – 21.9 percent of all women of reproductive age in the U.S. – could be impacted by changes to...
HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy
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.
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.
State Abortion Bans Harm More Than 15 Million Women of Color
ISSUE BRIEF | Our analysis shows that one year after Dobbs, more than 36 million women of reproductive age live in states that have or are likely to ban abortion.
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.