Improving maternal health in rural communities requires more than inadequate short term funding that the RHTP provides. This brief highlights policy recommendations to strengthen access to care through sustainable financing, workforce development, coverage stability and community-based, care delivery model.
Rural Health Transformation Program (Part 1): A Missed Opportunity for Moms & Babies
The Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) is being promoted as a major investment in rural health, but its funding level, design and priorities fall short of what rural communities need. This brief examines why the program is a missed opportunity to support rural maternal health.
OBBBA is Threatening Women’s Health Care Access
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 net.
Four Years Post-Dobbs, Clinic Closures and Attacks on Medication Abortion Harm Women of Color Nationwide
Four years post-Dobbs, anti-abortion extremists are attacking abortion access on every front to make it more difficult for pregnant people to get the reproductive care they need: banning abortion outright, defunding and shuttering reproductive health clinics, blocking telehealth abortion, and restricting medication abortion pills.
Paid Leave Means a Stronger Nation
A state-by-state analysis that highlights the significant and growing need for a national paid family and medical leave law that covers workers in all 51 states.
Putting Patients at Risk: Extremist Attacks on Emergency Abortion Care
All people deserve access to the abortion care they need, including pregnant people experiencing a medical crisis who need abortion care as emergency treatment.
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.
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 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.
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.
Paid Leave Means a Stronger Nation – 2023 Archived Version
A state-by-state analysis that highlights the significant and growing need for a national paid family and medical leave law that covers workers in all 51 states.