Consumers and employees want accountability, transparency, and control over their data. 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.
Republican’s New Health Care Law Will Impact Over 130 Rural Labor and Delivery Units
NPWF analysis finds that 144 rural hospitals with labor and delivery units across 41 states are at risk of closure or severe service cutbacks under the Republican’s proposal to cut Medicaid. This includes: thirteen hospitals in Kentucky, ten hospitals in Louisiana, three hospitals in Alaska and two hospitals in Maine, among others.
Three Years Post-Dobbs, Abortion Bans & Criminalization Threaten More than 15 Million Women of Color
Despite the ever-changing access landscape, it is clear that anti-abortion policies are harming millions and growing more extreme three years post-Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Policies across the country that ban abortion and threaten to criminalize pregnant people for their reproductive health decisions subject abortion patients to health precarities, policing, and punishment.
Seventeen States Attack HIPAA and Reproductive Health Privacy
Four lawsuits from anti-abortion extremists challenging the 2024 HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy (2024 HIPAA Privacy Rule) are jeopardizing health privacy and threatening to put pregnant people at even greater risk of criminalization for their reproductive care.
Project 2025 Threatens Women and Families’ Health and Freedom
If implemented, Project 2025 would serve as a draconian tool to harm the health and well-being of women and families and decimate our basic freedoms.
16 States Showing Women No Love for Galentine’s Day
These “not-so-sweet 16” states are among those named in NPWF’s recently released Threats on All Fronts: More Divided Than Ever, a report that looks at the increased threats women face to their lives when they live in states that put restrictions on their right to...
Threats On All Fronts
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 to opportunities to do more.
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.
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 reproductive rights laws in their state.
Advancing Reproductive Health Privacy, Mitigating Criminalization
The new HIPAA rule prohibits regulated entities from using or disclosing protected health information (PHI) for the purposes of conducting a criminal, civil, or administrative investigation into or imposing liability on anyone for the mere act of seeking, obtaining, providing, or facilitating lawful reproductive health care.
Democracy & Abortion Access: Restrictive Voting Laws Across States Threaten Freedoms
Our research finds that the states with the most restrictive abortion access policies are also the states with the greatest barriers to voting. This brief explores the intersection of state abortion policy and restrictive voting policies, showing how structured inequities are cemented into how our democracy functions to disadvantage women and people of color.
State Abortion Bans Threaten Nearly 7 Million Black Women, Exacerbate the Existing Black Maternal Mortality Crisis
Analysis from the National Partnership for Women & Families and In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda reveals the harmful impact of Dobbs on Black women. We find that more than 6.7 million Black women – 57 percent of all Black women ages 15-49 – live in the 26 states that have banned or are likely to ban abortion.
State Abortion Bans Harm More Than Three Million Disabled Women
The Dobbs decision has only compounded the longstanding barriers to abortion care that disabled people face, including provider discrimination and lack of training or experience with disabled patients, guardians dictating decisions about their reproductive care, denials of care and assistance among religiously-affiliated service providers and intermediate care facilities, transportation difficulties, inaccessibility in health care facilities, and layers of economic obstacles to affording the costs of care.
State of the Union for Women
The National Partnership for Women & Families and Paid Leave for All created a this new map to show that in all of the states that have taken extreme measures to ban abortion, none of those states offer paid family leave.
Democracy & Abortion Access
In a political landscape that moves the question of abortion access to the states, NPWF demonstrates the connection between the representation of women and women of color in state legislatures and better policy outcomes for those seeking abortions.
Leading the Way
Despite recent challenges, reproductive healthcare providers are often beacons in their communities, persistent in their determination to ensure access to care wherever they can and to deliver care that is of the highest quality. Now is the moment to double down on this commitment to providing excellent and equitable care.
State Abortion Bans Threaten 6.7 Million Latinas
The Dobbs decision has unique impacts on Latina communities.
Las prohibiciones estatales para el aborto amenazan a 6.7 millones de Latinas
La decisión de anular Roe v. Wade ha perjudicado a millones de personas en todo el país, impidiendo su acceso al aborto, alterando su futuro económico y poniendo en riesgo su salud e incluso sus vidas. La decisión de Dobbs tiene impactos únicos en las comunidades Latinas.
State Abortion Bans Harm More Than 15 Million Women of Color
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.
Threats on All Fronts 2022
2022 archived version – Analysis showing connections between the lack of abortion access, health care and workplace equity
