Adressing the Maternal Health Crisis
Oral Testimony of Carol Sakala, PhD, MSPH, Director for Maternal Health at the National Partnership for Women & Families before the U.S. House of Representatives House Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related...
NPWF Statement for the Record: PWFA + PFA 3.18.21
Improving Our Maternity Care Now: Four Care Models Federal Policymakers Must Implement for Healthier Moms and Babies
ISSUE BRIEF | Federal policymakers can play an essential role in advancing these successful, high-value models of maternity care.
Improving Our Maternity Care Now: Recommendations for Congress
RECOMMENDATIONS | Congress can play a pivotal role in addressing the maternal health crisis and supporting evidence-based models that improve the health of mothers and infants — particularly in communities that are suffering from deep structural inequities.
NPWF Statement for the Record: Minimum Wage 3.3.21
Letter to Congress in strong support for H.R. 603, the Raise the Wage Act of 2021.
Voters Show Bipartisan Support for Permanent Paid Sick Days and Paid Family and Medical Leave
POLLING | Emergency paid sick days and paid family leave protections provided under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act will expire in December 2020, despite the majority of voters facing expanded or continuing caregiving needs during the pandemic.
Improving Our Maternity Care Now: Four Care Models State Policymakers Must Implement for Healthier Moms and Babies
RECOMMENDATIONS | Research shows that specific care models in use today lead to demonstrably higher quality care and improved outcomes. We just have to take action to make them readily and widely available.
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.
Executive Summary: Improving Our Maternity Care Now
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY | We have identified three reliably high-quality forms of maternal and newborn care, as well as one promising, emerging model.
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...
Improving Our Maternity Care Now
REPORT | Four care models decisionmakers must implement for healthier moms and babies
Know Your Rights for Parents and Educators: Emergency Paid Sick Days and Paid Leave for Child Care and Coronavirus
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS | The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) contains important paid sick days and paid leave provisions that may help parents and educators by providing many workers new rights to paid sick time and paid family leave for certain...
Paid Leave Is Critical for Public Health
FACT SHEET | The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the devastating ripple effect that the lack of social support systems has on the health of workers, the health of our country and the economy.
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...
Attacks on health care coverage are attacks on reproductive justice for women of color
FACT SHEET | By undermining the ACA, conservative lawmakers are gambling with the health and economic stability of Black, Latina and Asian and Pacific Islander (AAPI) women, families, and communities.
How Lawmakers and Advocates Can Help Meet the Promise of Paid Leave
ISSUE BRIEF | This brief gives state lawmakers and advocates specific recommendations to support paid leave based on research from the report Meeting the Promise of Paid Leave: Best Practices in State Paid Leave Implementation.
Meeting the Promise of Paid Leave: Best Practices in State Paid Leave Implementation
REPORT | Paid family and medical leave has clear benefits to public health, working families’ economic security, businesses and the economy – yet millions of working people across the United States currently lack access, and people with low incomes are...
Know Your Rights: Rhode Island + Paid Sick Time
Because not everyone who needs access to abortion care may be aware of paid sick days laws in their state, we partnered with the National Network of Abortion Funds to create this Know Your Rights document for Rhode Island.
