In October 2018 NIRH launched a month-long education campaign to inform the public about New York’s outdated abortion laws. Before the Reproductive Health Act passed in 2019, New York was just one of a handful of states with laws from the 1800s still on the books that criminalized self-managed abortion performed without a medical provider. [...]
Since 2008, NIRH has engaged in an ongoing campaign to inform supporters about the threat posed by anti-abortion movement to criminalize women who access abortion care. In 2016, in an attempt to educate the public about the Republican National Committee (RNC) platform’s implications for women who have abortions, NIRH launched an aggressive, multi-platform advocacy campaign [...]
Tired of seeing the fraught term “pro-life” used ubiquitously and incorrectly, we conceived of this Google Chrome extension to shift the language of the discussion towards a more accurate framework. When downloaded, this Google Chrome extension will change any instance of “pro-life” to “anti-choice,” revealing the phrase for what it is: an attempt to stop women [...]
For twelve years, NIRH ran the Back Up Your Birth Control campaign, turning it into the leading national educational effort to raise awareness of and expand access to EC. Emergency contraception (EC) is one the most misunderstood and maligned forms of contraception available to American women today. The Back Up Your Birth Control campaign emerged [...]
In 2010, the National Institute launched a project to increase knowledge of IUDs among young New York City women (ages 16–25)—a group with high rates of unintended pregnancy and low use of long-acting reversible contraceptives. Developed with the insights gained from focus groups with teens and young women (ages 16-24 years), along with the input [...]
