TRAP (targeted regulation of abortion providers) ordinances place medically unnecessary restrictions on abortion care that do not exist for procedures of similar complexity and risk with the ultimate goal of shutting down abortion clinics. Anti-choice politicians pass these ordinances under the guise of protecting women’s safety and health, including seemingly benign requirements like wider halls […]
Anti-choice advocates, having had limited success pushing extreme abortion bans at the state and federal levels, are increasingly turning their attention to localities. Due to effective defense and constitutional challenges, these proposed local abortion bans have been so far unsuccessful. Nonetheless, we anticipate a continued focus on local work by anti-choice advocates. Activists should be […]
In 2014, the Supreme Court struck down Massachusetts’s 35-foot buffer zone around abortion clinics in
the case McCullen v. Coakley. In its decision, the Court focused on the local nature of clinic violence and
therefore the potentially more appropriate response of localized policy solutions. The National Institute
for Reproductive Health has worked with partners over the years to […]
Local officials, taking their cue from ever-increasing attacks on family planning programs at the state and federal levels, have begun carrying out efforts in their communities to cut funding for this essential care at local public health departments and clinics. These family planning services typically include contraceptive counseling and provision, breast and cervical cancer screening, […]
The communities in which we live have always been at the center of the work that reproductive health, rights, and justice advocates do every day. This has never been truer than it is now, in a time when anti-choice politicians are steadily chipping away at access to the resources and information people need to make […]
For those working to advance reproductive health, rights, and justice in the states, 2014 was a banner year. Although anti-choice, antiwoman legislators and their extremist allies continued to undermine women’s rights and health through restrictive laws, this year also saw a surge in the introduction, consideration, and enactment of laws intended to increase women’s access […]
The National Institute for Reproductive Health commissioned PerryUndem Research/Communication to conduct polling in New York and Pennsylvania to better understand the degree of support for legislative packages for women, to assess the extent to which voters believe abortion access belongs in such policy agendas, to explore why voters feel abortion access is important, and to […]
In 2008, the National Institute for Reproductive Health made a commitment to create and implement a proactive agenda for women’s reproductive health, rights, and justice at the local level. As this Urban Initiative for Reproductive Health (Urban Initiative) enters its sixth year of work to forward this agenda in communities across the United States, we […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 7, 2015
Contact: Christie Petrone, 646-520-3504, cpetrone@nirhealth.org
New Polling Bolsters Evidence that Voters Link Control Over Reproductive Decisions
— Including Abortion Access — to Women’s Financial Stability, Equal Opportunity
Virginia voters align with those in New York, Pennsylvania, and oppose legislative trend toward restricting abortion access
NEW YORK — Voters in Virginia agree with those in New […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 17, 2015
Contact: Tara Sweeney,tsweeney@nirhealth.org, 917-488-0094
National Institute for Reproductive Health Congratulates City of Madison for Passing Resolution Calling for the Removal of Bans that Deny Abortion Coverage and Further Inequities
MADISON—Tonight the Common Council of Madison, Wisc., passed a Resolution Calling for Increased Funding for Comprehensive Reproductive Health Care. This resolution calls on the […]
