Our analysis finds that more than 15 million women of color live in states where abortion is banned or under threat, or where there are bills to criminalize people for having an abortion. The analysis has been updated to reflect an Ohio proposal that was introduced last week.
When a health crisis or emergency arises, and when minutes and seconds can be the difference between life or death, it is critical to ensure that patients receive the care that they need quickly and without hesitation. This week, the Trump Administration made this task harder by revoking guidance clarifying that the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) applies in cases where abortion care is necessary to stabilize a patient, even when there is a state abortion ban in place.
“This is visible in Trump’s policies, Sharita Gruberg, vice president for economic justice at the National Partnership for Women and Families (NPWF), explains to me. The Executive Order, she says, allows members of the Trump Administration ‘to review anything that has gender in it.’ The public face was the attack on trans people, but the implementation goes beyond, ‘trying to claw back gender equity projects and work and data.'”
“Moreover, as Rolonda Donelson powerfully observed in a recent National Partnership for Women & Families blog post, it is problematic to cast abortion as a legally cognizable source of injury when ‘the truth is that those declines are much more likely caused by the states themselves… and their policy shortcomings.’ Thus, ‘characterizing abortion as a ‘harm’ to the state increases misogyny and refuses to hold states accountable for the failures they have caused by not providing social support to children and families already in existence.'”
The NPWF has filed an amicus brief on behalf of 25 reproductive health, civil rights, and social justice organizations in State of Tennessee et al. v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, supporting reproductive health privacy protections.
According to new research from the National Partnership for Women & Families (NPWF), paid family and medical leave has had a positive impact in 14 states, setting the standard for what a national policy could look like.
“Three out of four incarcerated women in the U.S. are of childbearing age, according to a 2021 bulletin by the National Partnership for Women and Families.”
“Cecile Richards was a powerhouse – she was a dynamic, visionary leader who believed deeply in women’s rights and gender equity, and her loss is heartbreaking.”
“‘Across the DOJ, various offices have responsibility for enforcing – or not enforcing – federal laws that have direct bearing on reproductive and other civil rights,’ says Shaina Goodman, director for reproductive health and rights at the National Partnership for Women and Families.”
“‘The former president has been all over the map in terms of what he says about abortion access, about reproductive rights and about access to different forms of reproductive health care,’ said Jocelyn Frye, president of the National Partnership for Women & Families. ‘There is an active effort to really deny folks access to IVF and other sorts of reproductive health care. People are right to be worried.'”
“‘The former president has been all over the map in terms of what he says about abortion access, about reproductive rights and about access to different forms of reproductive health care,’ said Jocelyn Frye, president of the National Partnership for Women & Families. ‘There is an active effort to really deny folks access to IVF and other sorts of reproductive health care. People are right to be worried.'”
“After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, an estimated 6.7 million Latinas of reproductive age now live in the 26 states that have banned or are poised to ban abortion care, according to a recent analysis from the National Partnership for Women & Families and the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice.”
“‘Warrantless law enforcement access to digital information related to reproductive health care, including location data, threatens reproductive freedom,’ Ashley Emery, senior policy analyst, reproductive health and rights at the non-profit the National Partnership for Women & Families, told 404 Media. ‘If law enforcement can bypass court approval needed to obtain sensitive data and instead use this new surveillance tool to track pregnant people and build cases against them, the implications for abortion and pregnancy criminalization are alarming. This risk is especially salient for Black women, brown women, and low-income women, who are already over-surveilled and over-policed.'”
“Sinsi Hernández-Cancio, vice president for health justice at the National Partnership for Women & Families, said abortion-rights supporters cannot afford to assume Latino voters do not support abortion rights, especially in majority-Republican Florida, which requires 60% voter support to pass a constitutional amendment.”
“A 2023 report by the National Partnership for Women and Families shows that Arizona is home to 585,600 Latinas of reproductive age, and nearly half of them are economically insecure — meaning they are living below 200% of the federal poverty line.”
Today, the National Partnership released a new analysis on the likely impacts of abortion access on state ballots in the November 2024 election. The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade two years ago continues to cause significant harm to millions across the nation.
“An analysis from the National Partnership for Women & Families and In Our Own Voice found that 57 percent of all Black women in the United States ages 15-49 live in the 26 states that have banned or are likely to ban abortion.”
“Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy than their white counterparts, according to the National Partnership For Women & Families.”
“The premise of Severino’s claims, says Marissa Ditkowsky, the National Partnership for Women & Families’ disability economic justice counsel, is a fabrication.
‘It’s always concerning when people repeat medical myths to score political points,’ Ditkowsky says. ‘It’s even more concerning when disabled people are used as a political football without consulting or truly centering us.'”
“‘It’s hard to overstate the significance of the Loper Bright and Relentless decision’ on reproductive and gender issues and federal policy more broadly, says Shaina Goodman, director for reproductive health and rights at the National Partnership for Women and Families. ‘It has deep and far-reaching consequences that we will see play out over the coming years.'”
