People do not live their lives in siloes, and the harms wrought by Dobbs are not limited to people’s reproductive lives. The consequences of this decision – of denying the right to abortion – ripple out into individuals’ and families’ health overall, their economic...
Using Paid Sick Days for Medication Abortion
Everyone needs time to access health care without threatening 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...
Reproductive Rights and Disability Justice: SexEd
ISSUE BRIEF | Access, Autonomy, and Dignity: A Series on Reproductive Rights and Disability Justice. This particular brief focuses on access to sex education and barriers for people with disabilities, and includes policy recommendations to ensure that sex ed is truly...
Reproductive Rights and Disability Justice: Contraception
ISSUE BRIEF | Access, Autonomy, and Dignity: A Series on Reproductive Rights and Disability Justice. This particular brief focuses on access to contraception and barriers for people with disabilities, and includes policy recommendations to ensure that contraception is...
Reproductive Rights and Disability Justice: Parenting
ISSUE BRIEF | Access, Autonomy, and Dignity: A Series on Reproductive Rights and Disability Justice. This particular brief focuses on the right to parent and articulates specific concerns for people with disabilities, including those who experience multiple forms of...
Reproductive Rights and Disability Justice: Abortion
ISSUE BRIEF | Access, Autonomy, and Dignity: A Series on Reproductive Rights and Disability Justice. This particular brief focuses on access to abortion and barriers for people with disabilities, and includes policy recommendations to ensure that abortion is truly...
Disastrous and Dangerous: Judge Barrett Would Wreak Havoc on the Lives of Women of Color
FACT SHEET | Judge Barrett's elevation to the country’s highest court would be disastrous for all of us in regards to our civil and human rights, but is especially dangerous for women of color who live at the intersection of multiple oppressions.
Past as Present: America’s Sordid History of Medical Reproductive Abuse and Experimentation
FACT SHEET | Recently, accounts of forced hysterectomies at the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Georgia, have sparked widespread alarm and condemnation.
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...
Clean Water Visual Factsheet
FACT SHEET | Companion piece to the 2020 report, Clean Water and Reproductive Justice: Lack of Access Harms Women of Color
Clean Water and Reproductive Justice: Lack of Access Harms Women of Color
REPORT | Frequently, Black, Latinx, Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, lower-income communities, rural communities, and communities living at the intersections of these identities struggle daily to access safe, affordable water, and their health is...
Clean Water and Reproductive Justice Policy Solutions
RECOMMENDATIONS | Access to clean water is a human right recognized by the United Nations. It is a public health issue that is deeply connected to maternal and reproductive health. It is also a reproductive justice issue in that it shapes people’s ability to choose if...
Lead Poisoning in Flint, Michigan
CASE STUDY | The water poisoning in Flint caused undeniable harm to residents’ reproductive health. Analyzing health records from 2008 to 2015, researchers found that fertility rates in Flint dropped by 12 percent and fetal deaths rose by 58 percent after the water...
Pollution in San Gabriel Valley, California
CASE STUDY | Over half a million Asian American people and 7,000 Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander people live in the San Gabriel Valley. As a result of high pollution, drinking water contamination is common in areas including Alhambra, Arcadia, Monterey Park,...
Nitrate Contamination in San Joaquin Valley, California
CASE STUDY | San Joaquin Valley accounts for over half of California’s agricultural production and, as a result, has the highest rates of drinking water contamination in the state. Residents in Tulare County in particular face reproductive health issues at levels...
Reproductive Health Wins of 2019
FACT SHEET | Despite significant attacks on reproductive health and rights in 2019, several states are fighting to ensure that abortion care is accessible for all. This fact sheet celebrates state wins on protecting and expanding access to abortion care.
Maternal Health and Abortion Restrictions:How Lack of Access to Quality Care is Harming Black Women
ISSUE BRIEF | As a result of many factors, including systemic racism, Black women disproportionately face geographic, transportation, infrastructure and economic barriers to obtaining abortion care, and are more likely to be harmed by abortion bans. This issue brief...
Abortion Access in Jeopardy: June Medical Services v. Gee
FACT SHEET | 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...
Access at Risk: Abortion Bans of 2019
FACT SHEET | 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.
2019 Title X Fact Sheet
Family planning services are a necessary component of health care for women and families. Access to preventive and reproductive health care allows people to choose if and when to have children and create the stability to have the job, family and future they want.
