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Access to safe abortion and contraception: Vital for young women globally, a priority for U.S. foreign assistance

The United States, as the world’s foreign assistance leader, must play a key role in safeguarding a comprehensive and integrated approach to sexual and reproductive health and rights for young women. This fact sheet outlines policy challenges that deny young women their sexual and reproductive rights and puts forth policy actions the U.S. government should take: expand family planning funding, repeal the damaging Helms Amendment, permanently repeal the Mexico City Policy (also called the Global Gag Rule), and continue to work toward a progressive sexual and reproductive health agenda in platforms like the International Conference on Population and Development and the United Nations.

How U.S. Foreign Policy BLOCKS Women’s Access to Safe Abortion Overseas

This factsheet provides an overview of the Helms Amendment and how it harms the world’s most vulnerable women by denying them access to safe abortion services.

New Polling Shows Majority of Voters Favor Overturning Helms

This memo summarizes key findings from an online survey among 800 registered voters nationwide conducted by Hart Research on behalf of Ipas.

Key Messages on the Harms of the Helms Amendment and the Case for Repeal

When talking about the Helms Amendment and U.S. foreign assistance for safe abortion, these key messages are simple and represent what voters feel, according to 2020 polling results.

A research agenda for moving early medical pregnancy termination over the counter

Given the overall safety profile and increasing availability of medical pregnancy termination drugs, we asked: would the mifepristone–misoprostol regimen for medical termination at ≤10 weeks of gestation meet US Food and Drug Administration regulatory criteria for over-the-counter (OTC) approval, and if not, what are the present research gaps?

Trump’s domestic gag rule will silence, shame, and stigmatize women

The domestic and global gag rules stigmatize a simple medical procedure by disconnecting it from other health care services and by forcing doctors not to offer women the whole array or reproductive options available to them. Year:...

Don’t forget women’s reproductive health in the wake of Harvey

In a state where access to contraception, abortion and other reproductive health care is already hard to get, how likely are women to get that care in the wake of Hurricane Harvey? Year: 2017Authors: Kumar, AnuLanguages:...

Using the reproductive justice framework for message development in the Latin and Central America Region

This publication defines reproductive justice (RJ) and its strategies, and identifies organizations using the RJ framework in the United States as well as documents and tools developed by those organizations. In addition, this...

How Nikki Haley’s ambassador appointment threatens the spirit and intent of the UN

Lost in the outrage over President Donald Trump’s reinstatement and expansion of the “global gag rule” was former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s induction as the new United States Ambassador to the United Nations. If her track record is any guide, we can anticipate...

Helms and Hyde Amendments: More than 40 years of human rights violations

For more than 40 years, U.S. policies have been allowed to violate the human rights of women at home and abroad. Isn’t it time the United States makes its abortion funding policies, both national and international, consistent with its other financial and political...

Confronting abortion stigma

Every day of every week several state legislatures are hard at work creating more and more restrictions to punish both women in need of abortion and the medical professionals providing safe abortion care. What do all of these actions across the country share? They’re all rooted in abortion stigma.

Green (with envy) about the gay rights movement

More than half the population supports gay marriage and families. So when will abortion and women's rights to reproductive self-determination be a cultural norm?Year: 2013Authors: Kumar, AnuLanguages: Regions: [wpv-post-taxonomy...

Abortion stigma and the case of Purvi Patel

The case of Purvi Patel, a young woman in Indiana sentenced to 20 years in prison for feticide and child neglect, is a grotesque example of abortion stigma.Year: 2015Authors: Kumar, AnuLanguages: Regions: [wpv-post-taxonomy...

What Komen v. Planned Parenthood teaches us about abortion stigma

Two major women's health organizations, Susan G. Komen for the Cure and Planned Parenthood, battled for women's respect and donations. Two days later the dust is settling and we're left to wonder what we should take away from the tangle? Was it about fundraising?...

Denying women their rights, criminalizing doctors

At a time when the pool of abortion providers is shrinking and abortion clinics are closing, medical abortion can truly increase women's access, particularly to those in underserved areas. For legislators who want to end access to abortion under any circumstances,...

Abortion, the states and the World Health Organization

The new WHO recommendations make it painfully clear that, nearly 40 years after Roe v. Wade, we're doing everything wrong here. Whether it's gestational limits, ultrasounds, counseling or human rights, nearly every policy proposed by anti-abortion legislators directly...

Correlates of perceived and internalized stigma among abortion patients in the USA: An exploration by race and Hispanic ethnicity

This study estimated the proportion of abortion patients in the USA reporting perceived and internalized stigma, and assessed associations between those outcomes and women’s sociodemographic, reproductive, and situational characteristics by race/ethnicity from a...

Combating abortion stigma requires more than just storytelling

Certainly, sharing abortion stories can be a powerful act and may reduce self-stigma. But I fear that it distracts from the structural inequalities of race, poverty, age, and education by placing too much emphasis on the individual. And I worry that it lets our...

Bad all around: Attacks on women in NC

Taken together, the [NC] state Republican attacks on unemployment benefits, Medicaid, education, women's rights and racial justice amount to what the rest of the world considers human rights violations. They are anti-poor, anti-woman, and anti-[economic] development....

Embracing the reproductive justice framework in the Americas

This publication provides a brief overview of the reproductive justice framework, its guiding principles and opportunities for its application in Ipas’s work in the Americas. Examples of Ipas’s work in Bolivia and Central America already employing a reproductive...

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