To help women avoid unintended pregnancies and take charge of their reproductive lives, the National Institute works to ensure women have access to contraceptives.

Over the last five years, a critical component of the National Institute’s work has been to promote wider awareness of and access to emergency contraception (EC), to remove barriers to obtaining EC, and to garner public, governmental, health care provider, and media support for timely, equal, and meaningful EC access.   

Our Contraception Access Program involves organizations across the country in educating people about the role of contraceptives in protecting health and preventing unwanted pregnancies – so that that no one is denied contraception they need due to ideological restrictions, a lack of information or inability to pay.