By creating the “Conscience and Religious Freedom Division” earlier this month, the Department of Health and Human Services prioritizes religion over a patient’s health needs. This article looks at the administration’s failed goal of trying to balance freedom of religion with access to healthcare. Read more

This article critiques the label ‘pro-life’. It has been proven that the lack of abortion access is deadly for women as they face maternal mortality possibilities and deaths from childbirth. The article suggests the anti-abortion activists should actually be called ‘pro-death’. Read more

This study, highlighted on the 45th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, looks at the socioeconomic consequences for women receiving or being denied a wanted abortion. The study shows that restricting access to abortion services makes struggling mothers struggle more.  Read more

This article looks at the evolving abortion pill, Plan C. A research study is allowing women in Maine, Washington, Oregon, and Hawaii to video chat with a doctor, then get pills through the mail, and soon, California and Hawaii may make Plan C more accessible.  Read more

This article explores how the first year under Trump was an assault on women’s health. Among these assaults were reinstating and expanding the Global Gag Rule, limiting access to birth control, appointing anti-abortion rights activists to key roles, and attempting to repeal the ACA. Read more

Earlier this week, the Population Council announced that the FDA has accepted for review its one-year Nestorone® / ethinyl estradiol vaginal ring for contraception. This contraceptive vaginal ring would be the first preventive pregnancy option that provides a year’s worth of contraception while still under the woman’s control. Read more

This analysis looks at reproductive health policy trends in 2017 – comparing policies that support reproductive health to ones that restrict reproductive health. Read more

This editorial article highlights how morally wrong Trump’s new birth control mandate is by advocating that an employer’s religious and moral objections should not be placed above the healthcare of women. Read more  

Although the Trump administration made many moves to limit access to abortion and reproductive care, the administration was not as successful as people feared it would be in 2017, and now people are even more worried about what will happen in 2018. Read more

An Irish woman will be touring Ireland in 2018 with the aim to convince voters to support changes to the abortion law as the referendum approaches. She wants to tell her abortion story so others can see the urgency in the referendum. Read more