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Growing Market Power Among Catholic Hospitals Restrains Access to Reproductive Health Care Report
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Growing Market Power Among Catholic Hospitals Restrains Access to Reproductive Health Care

Stronger antitrust enforcement is necessary to prevent reduced access to reproductive health care, including abortion, birth control, and fertility treatments, while safeguarding market competition.

Bailey Sanders, Barak Richman, Kierra B. Jones, 2 More Andrea Ducas, Samuel Doernberg

10 Egregious Things You May Not Know About the One Big Beautiful Bill Act Article
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10 Egregious Things You May Not Know About the One Big Beautiful Bill Act

Congressional Republicans’ radical budget and tax bill includes several less-known provisions that will increase costs, fuel the Trump administration’s overreach, and waste taxpayer dollars.

Colin Seeberger, Andrea Ducas, Natasha Murphy, 9 More Kierra B. Jones, Andrés Argüello, Lily Roberts, Kyle Ross, Michael Sozan, Silva Mathema, Sara Partridge, Paige Shoemaker DeMio, Corey Husak

United States v. Skrmetti: The Trans Medical Care Case Before the Supreme Court Is About Bodily Autonomy for Everyone Article
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United States v. Skrmetti: The Trans Medical Care Case Before the Supreme Court Is About Bodily Autonomy for Everyone

Should the court side with families and doctors, the decision in United States v. Skrmetti could overturn bans on lifesaving transgender medical care, but should the justices decide otherwise, the implications for everyone’s access to health care could be drastic.

Haley Norris

Project 2025: Exposing the Far-Right Assault on America Past Event

Project 2025: Exposing the Far-Right Assault on America

Please join the Center for American Progress for an event discussing the implications of Project 2025 for all Americans and the ways in which its policy proposals are already having an impact at the state level.

Supreme Court Dismisses Idaho v. United States Without Making a Decision on Emergency Abortion Care Article
The U.S. Supreme Court is pictured on June 26, 2024, a day before issuing its ruling in Idaho v. United States.

Supreme Court Dismisses Idaho v. United States Without Making a Decision on Emergency Abortion Care

While the merits of Idaho v. United States will be decided by the lower courts, the U.S. Supreme Court admitted to procedural miscalculations that directly compromised the safety of pregnant patients in Idaho—underscoring how pregnant patients and medical providers will continue to be caught in the chaos and confusion sowed by the politicization of medication.

Sabrina Talukder

Project 2025’s Distortion of a Reconstruction-Era Law Could Enact a National Abortion Ban Article
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Project 2025’s Distortion of a Reconstruction-Era Law Could Enact a National Abortion Ban

This column is the first out of two pieces highlighting how far-right extremists plan to misapply the Comstock Act to eliminate access to medication abortion through the mail by overriding the independence of the U.S. Department of Justice.

Sabrina Talukder

Abortion Access Mapped by Congressional District Article

Abortion Access Mapped by Congressional District

Who is the typical woman of reproductive age in each congressional district? What is her income? What is her demographic profile? Does she live in poverty? How far must she travel to get an abortion? A new Center for American Progress analysis answers these questions and more for the districts of the 118th Congress (January 2023–January 2025).

Sara Estep

CAP Changemakers: The Intersectionality of Black Maternal Health Care and Abortion Access Video

CAP Changemakers: The Intersectionality of Black Maternal Health Care and Abortion Access

This conversation with Sabrina Talukder and Dr. Jamila K. Taylor highlights the vital intersection of Black maternal health care and abortion access, advocating for equitable policies and dignified care for marginalized communities.

Sabrina Talukder, Jamila Taylor, Toni Pandolfo, 3 More Olivia Mowry, Hai-Lam Phan, Matthew Gossage

Emergency Abortion Care Under Threat in Idaho v. United States: The Medical Providers Perspective Past Event

Emergency Abortion Care Under Threat in Idaho v. United States: The Medical Providers Perspective

Join the Center for American Progress and physician storytellers from Idaho and other rural states to discuss how the criminalization of abortion care, the future of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), and the interference of the U.S. Supreme Court in their daily medical practice has changed their personal and professional lives.

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3 Questions To Ask During Oral Arguments in Idaho v. United States Article

3 Questions To Ask During Oral Arguments in Idaho v. United States

Idaho v. United States, a case that will determine the future of emergency abortion care in every state, highlights how a politicized judiciary is fueling the politicization of medicine.

Sabrina Talukder

5 Connections Between Attacks on Abortion Care and Transgender Medical Care in Idaho Court Cases Article
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5 Connections Between Attacks on Abortion Care and Transgender Medical Care in Idaho Court Cases

Two court cases originating in Idaho—Idaho v. United States and Poe v. Labrador—reveal five connections between attacks on abortion care and transgender medical care and highlight how the politicization of the judiciary is fueling the politicization of medicine.

Sabrina Talukder, Caleb Smith

Fact Sheet: Building an Economy That Delivers for Women Fact Sheet
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Fact Sheet: Building an Economy That Delivers for Women

This fact sheet offers a brief summary of CAP’s “Playbook for the Advancement of Women in the Economy,” which provides federal and state policymakers with the tools they need to center women in their economic plans and grow the economy.

Rose Khattar

Rewriting the Playbook: How Women Are Powering the Economy Past Event

Rewriting the Playbook: How Women Are Powering the Economy

Please Join the Center for American Progress for the launch of the "Playbook for the Advancement of Women in the Economy."

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Playbook for the Advancement of Women in the Economy Report

Playbook for the Advancement of Women in the Economy

This collection of policy recommendations reveals how policymakers can grow the economy by centering the changes that women need in their economic platforms.

Rose Khattar, Sara Estep

How Ohio’s Special Election Results Will Both Protect Abortion and Affect Maternal Mortality in the State Article
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How Ohio’s Special Election Results Will Both Protect Abortion and Affect Maternal Mortality in the State

Ohio’s Issue 1 ballot initiative to codify the legal status of abortion in the state constitution affects both abortion access and maternal mortality rates.

Sabrina Talukder, Tracy Weitz, Sara Estep, 3 More Kierra B. Jones, Amina Khalique, Isabela Salas-Betsch

2023 CAP IDEAS Conference Past Event
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2023 CAP IDEAS Conference

Join the Center for American Progress as we celebrate 20 years of innovative policy solutions and look boldly forward to a progressive future.

1 Year Without Roe Personal Story
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1 Year Without Roe

Doctors, doulas, and nurse practitioners detail their experiences since the overturn of Roe v. Wade and their fears in the rapidly evolving legal landscape of abortion care.

D.C. Abortion Doula Fills Gaps in Support Systems Post-Roe Personal Story
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D.C. Abortion Doula Fills Gaps in Support Systems Post-Roe

An abortion doula in Washington, D.C., describes how restrictions on abortion and medication abortions hurt the marginalized communities they serve.

Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA: The Safety of Medication Abortion Care Article
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Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA: The Safety of Medication Abortion Care

The judges in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA made egregious errors when describing post-medication ER care, which threatens access to all medications and highlights the politicization of the judiciary.

Becca Damante

Toward a Collective Vision for Improving Contraceptive Access Past Event
A social worker reviews birth control options with a patient in Denver on August 19, 2022. (Getty/The Washington Post/Marc Piscotty)

Toward a Collective Vision for Improving Contraceptive Access

Please join the Center for American Progress for an event featuring an expert panel discussing their vision for equitable access to birth control in the United States.

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Advancing Access to Contraception in States Through Quality Measures and Person-Centered Contraceptive Counseling Report
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Advancing Access to Contraception in States Through Quality Measures and Person-Centered Contraceptive Counseling

The fourth and final report in this Center for American Progress series highlighting best practices to improve and expand access to contraception at the state level focuses on the importance of contraceptive quality measures.

Kierra B. Jones

State Laws on Abortion Article
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State Laws on Abortion

This primer provides resources and information on harmful and protective abortion legislation, as well as other laws restricting reproductive rights, advancing across the states.

Becca Damante, Kierra B. Jones

Fact Sheet: Advancing Contraceptive Access in the States Through Quality Measures and Person-Centered Contraceptive Counseling Fact Sheet
Artwork depicting contraceptive pills is seen behind a woman waiting at a family planning center.

Fact Sheet: Advancing Contraceptive Access in the States Through Quality Measures and Person-Centered Contraceptive Counseling

This fact sheet accompanies a new Center for American Progress report on best practices to expand and improve access to contraception at the state level, covering common implementation challenges and offering recommendations for implementing contraceptive quality measures.

Kierra B. Jones

Fact Sheet: Challenges and Solutions to Improve Access to Contraception Through Section 1115 Medicaid Waivers and SPAs Fact Sheet
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Fact Sheet: Challenges and Solutions to Improve Access to Contraception Through Section 1115 Medicaid Waivers and SPAs

This fact sheet accompanies a new Center for American Progress report on best practices to expand and improve access to contraception at the state level, covering common implementation challenges and offering recommendations to states pursuing family planning expansions through Section 1115 Medicaid waivers and state plan amendments (SPAs).

Kierra B. Jones

Fact Sheet: Common Challenges and Recommended Solutions for Implementing Pharmacist Prescribing of Contraceptives Fact Sheet
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Fact Sheet: Common Challenges and Recommended Solutions for Implementing Pharmacist Prescribing of Contraceptives

This fact sheet accompanies a new Center for American Progress report on best practices to expand and improve contraceptive access at the state level, covering common implementation challenges and offering recommendations for expanding pharmacists’ prescriptive authority.

Kierra B. Jones

A Collaborative Agenda for the Disability and Reproductive Justice Communities in 2023 Fact Sheet
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A Collaborative Agenda for the Disability and Reproductive Justice Communities in 2023

The Center for American Progress recently hosted a roundtable of more than 20 advocates from the reproductive and disability rights and justice communities—and has compiled the top five policy priorities important to focus on this year.

Mia Ives-Rublee, Emily DiMatteo, Amina Khalique, 3 More Kierra B. Jones, Anona Neal, Maggie Jo Buchanan

Fact Sheet: Common Challenges to Implementing One-Year Supply Policies and Recommended Solutions Fact Sheet
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Fact Sheet: Common Challenges to Implementing One-Year Supply Policies and Recommended Solutions

This fact sheet accompanies the Center for American Progress’ report on best practices to expand and improve contraceptive access at the state level, covering common implementation challenges and offering recommendations for one-year contraceptive dispensing policies.

Kierra B. Jones

Abortion Bans Will Result in More Women Dying Article
An abortion rights activist comforts her daughter following the 6-3 Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.

Abortion Bans Will Result in More Women Dying

Pregnancy carries risks, including death. Without abortion access, more women will die.

Elyssa Spitzer, Tracy Weitz, Maggie Jo Buchanan

5 Important Facts About Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Article

5 Important Facts About Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills

Approving oral hormonal contraceptive pills to be sold over the counter could expand access to contraceptive options, increase women’s bodily autonomy, and ensure people can decide when to become pregnant.

Kierra B. Jones

What You Need to Know About the Bill to Ban Abortion Nationwide Article
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What You Need to Know About the Bill to Ban Abortion Nationwide

Graham’s proposed national ban would prohibit abortion after 15 weeks nationwide, with only very narrow exceptions—while still allowing states to ban abortion even more strictly.

Maggie Jo Buchanan

Important takeaways from Kansas’ vote for a constitutional right to abortion In the News

Important takeaways from Kansas’ vote for a constitutional right to abortion

Elyssa Spitzer reacts to Kansas' recent vote to retain its state constitution’s protection of a right to abortion. She discusses why, despite this important victory for women’s health and equality, abortion rights should not be left to the ballot but instead be recognized in the federal constitution as a fundamental right.

The Hill

Elyssa Spitzer

Hyde’s Restrictions on Abortion Are Unacceptable Article
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Hyde’s Restrictions on Abortion Are Unacceptable

While it is critical that Congress works to codify the promise of Roe v. Wade and ensure equitable access to abortion care, the federal government must take what steps it can now under the scope of the Hyde Amendment to increase access to care and protect patients.

Maggie Jo Buchanan, Tracy Weitz

Expanding Access and Protections in States Where Abortion Is Legal Article
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Expanding Access and Protections in States Where Abortion Is Legal

Abortion is protected by state law in more than 20 states, many of which have expanded access to abortion by making it more affordable, codifying state-level reproductive rights, broadening the types of providers able to offer care, and protecting abortion providers and access to clinics.

Kierra B. Jones

A Strong Start in Life: How Public Health Policies Affect the Well-Being of Pregnancies and Families Report
A mother kisses her child as her midwife examines her at a birthing center in South Los Angeles.

A Strong Start in Life: How Public Health Policies Affect the Well-Being of Pregnancies and Families

Understanding how the key social determinants of health—including housing, employment, and education—affect perinatal health is critical to ensuring that federal policies support healthy babies and families.

Hailey Gibbs, Marquisha Johns, Osub Ahmed, 2 More Maggie Jo Buchanan, Arohi Pathak

Defining and Defending Contraception Post-Roe Article
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Defining and Defending Contraception Post-Roe

The misclassification of contraception as abortion by anti-abortion lawmakers is an alarming step down a path toward government control over women’s bodies and futures.

Elyssa Spitzer, Elyssa Spitzer

How Americans Can Fight Back Against a Radical Supreme Court Majority Article
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How Americans Can Fight Back Against a Radical Supreme Court Majority

Responding to the judicial overreach of a radical Supreme Court majority will require long-term structural reforms to the courts and immediate action to mitigate the harms caused by their wrongly decided decisions.

Ben Olinsky, Grace Oyenubi

Some States Are Ready To Punish Abortion in a Post-Roe World Report
Reproductive health advocates rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court.

Some States Are Ready To Punish Abortion in a Post-Roe World

For generations, Americans have known abortion to be a fundamental right; if Roe v. Wade is overturned, some states will quickly make it a crime.

Elyssa Spitzer

Americans Strongly Back Continued Access to Early Abortion Medication Article

Americans Strongly Back Continued Access to Early Abortion Medication

American voters overwhelmingly want to keep the constitutional right to abortion in Roe v. Wade and strongly support legal access to early abortion medication for all women.

Maggie Jo Buchanan, John Halpin

Strengthening Federal Network Adequacy Requirements for ACA Marketplace Plans Report
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Strengthening Federal Network Adequacy Requirements for ACA Marketplace Plans

In order to improve maternal health care access and outcomes for millions of pregnant and postpartum people in the United States, the federal government must ensure that health insurance plans available through the ACA marketplace offer robust maternity care provider networks.

Carolyn Sabini, Elyssa Spitzer, Osub Ahmed

State Abortion Legislation in 2021 Report

State Abortion Legislation in 2021

In 2021, the United States has seen the highest number of abortion restrictions made law in a single year, and the legal context in which this newly enacted legislation will operate is particularly tenuous.

Elyssa Spitzer, Nora Ellmann

Building on the ACA: Administrative Actions to Improve Maternal Health Report

Building on the ACA: Administrative Actions to Improve Maternal Health

The United States’ maternal health crisis demands federal and state action to improve coverage, the delivery of care, and pregnancy outcomes. The cost of inaction will almost certainly be dire.

Jamille Fields Allsbrook, Osub Ahmed

A Proactive Abortion Agenda Report
A volunteer waits for patients outside Jackson Women's Health Organization, the last abortion clinic in Mississippi, on April 5, 2018, in Jackson. (Getty/AFP/Brendan Smialowski)

A Proactive Abortion Agenda

Policymakers must go beyond baseline legal protections to treat abortion as the essential health care service it is, ensuring meaningful access to abortion for all and removing barriers put in place to circumvent Roe v. Wade.

Jamille Fields Allsbrook, Nora Ellmann

Sexual Violence and the Disability Community Article
Barbara Altman holds hands with her son Andrew, who has microcephaly, on a bench at their home in Rockville, Maryland, on October 29, 2016. (Getty/Jabin Botsford)

Sexual Violence and the Disability Community

The disability rights and justice movement and the reproductive health, rights, and justice movements must come together for nuanced discussions of the silent epidemic of sexual violence against disabled people.

Vilissa Thompson, Nora Ellmann, Rebecca Cokley, 1 More Jamille Fields Allsbrook

Women Have Paid the Price for Trump’s Regulatory Agenda Report

Women Have Paid the Price for Trump’s Regulatory Agenda

The Trump administration has issued dozens of regulations that have threatened women’s progress and cost them billions—revealing a fundamental disregard for women.

Osub Ahmed, Shilpa Phadke, Diana Boesch

Reproductive Rights at the Supreme Court Video

Reproductive Rights at the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court's decisions this term on reproductive health are a reminder of the need for proactive policies that protect reproductive rights.

Kurt Mueller, Jamille Fields Allsbrook, Nora Ellmann, 2 More Juli Adhikari, Maggie Jo Buchanan

Medicare Extra: A Tool To Improve Reproductive Health Care Access Report
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Medicare Extra: A Tool To Improve Reproductive Health Care Access

CAP’s Medicare Extra proposal provides an opportunity for the United States to safeguard and improve access to reproductive health care.

Jamille Fields Allsbrook, Osub Ahmed

Integrating a Reproductive Justice Framework in Climate Research Article
A mother holds her baby at their home, which is under construction after being mostly destroyed by Hurricane Maria, in San Isidro, Puerto Rico, December 2017. (Getty/Mario Tama)

Integrating a Reproductive Justice Framework in Climate Research

As the connection between climate change and women’s health and well-being is better elucidated, it is important that researchers also utilize a reproductive justice framework.

Osub Ahmed

The Equal Rights Amendment: What You Need To Know Report
(Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg celebrated her 20th anniversary on the bench at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., August 2013.)

The Equal Rights Amendment: What You Need To Know

Adopting the long-overdue Equal Rights Amendment could help bolster existing statutory protections under attack, making it a key element in the fight for gender equality.

Robin Bleiweis

Mass Incarceration, Stress, and Black Infant Mortality Report

Mass Incarceration, Stress, and Black Infant Mortality

The system of mass incarceration is perhaps the clearest manifestation of structural racism in the United States—with particularly damaging effects for black women and infants.

Connor Maxwell, Danyelle Solomon

Finding The Courage To Lead Podcast
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Finding The Courage To Lead

At CAP's 2018 Ideas Conference, Michele and Igor speak with Cecile Richards, former president of Planned Parenthood. Then, CAP Senior Fellow Jocelyn Frye discusses women's rights with Valerie Jarrett, former senior adviser to President Barack Obama.

Sally Tucker, Rachel Rosen, Michele L. Jawando, 2 More Igor Volsky, Jocelyn Frye

Scott Pruitt Threatens Reproductive and Environmental Justice for Women Article
A mother and her daughter stand at a now defunct water fountain in downtown Flint, Michigan, on October 11, 2016. (Brittany Greeson/Getty)

Scott Pruitt Threatens Reproductive and Environmental Justice for Women

Throughout his tenure at the Environmental Protection Agency, Administrator Pruitt has favored polluters and corporations over reproductive health, rights, and justice—and women of color are losing out the most.

Osub Ahmed, Erin Auel, Shilpa Phadke

Religious Liberty for a Select Few Report
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Religious Liberty for a Select Few

Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ guidance is already empowering appointees throughout the administration to attack the equality and legal protections of LGBTQ people, women, and religious minorities.

Sharita Gruberg, Frank J. Bewkes, Elizabeth Platt, 2 More Katherine Franke, Claire Markham

The Anti-Choice Movement’s Continued Pursuit of Politicized Medicine Report

The Anti-Choice Movement’s Continued Pursuit of Politicized Medicine

Through its support for fake women's health centers in NIFLA v. Becerra, the anti-choice movement again demonstrates its willingness to manipulate women's right to make informed decisions about their reproductive health.

Maggie Jo Buchanan, Osub Ahmed, Anusha Ravi

Rhetoric vs. Reality: How Abortion Bans Hurt Women Article
A woman shouts as she attends the Women's March in New York City, on January 20, 2018. (Kena Bentancur/Getty)

Rhetoric vs. Reality: How Abortion Bans Hurt Women

Abortion bans are unnecessary, based on false information, and impede women's rights and access to critical health care.

Anusha Ravi, Jamila Taylor

45 Ways Trump and Congress Threaten the Promise of Roe v. Wade Report

45 Ways Trump and Congress Threaten the Promise of Roe v. Wade

Under the Trump administration, there has been a particularly ferocious effort to deny women their fundamental rights and limit access to abortion, as well as an array of other reproductive health services.

Jamila Taylor, Anusha Ravi, Lia Parada, 2 More Kate Bahn, Michele L. Jawando

Why the HHS Secretary Nomination Matters for Women and Families Article
Former Deputy HHS Secretary Alex Azar meets with reporters in Washington, D.C., June 2006. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Why the HHS Secretary Nomination Matters for Women and Families

The next U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services will play a pivotal role in creating a health care system that supports women’s and families’ health care needs.

Shilpa Phadke, Theresa Chalhoub

5 Ways Immigration Justice Is Reproductive Justice Article
A Jamaican immigrant mother embraces her children in their apartment in Seattle, November 24, 2008. (AP/Elaine Thompson)

5 Ways Immigration Justice Is Reproductive Justice

The Trump administration’s decision to end DACA is the latest assault on immigrants—casting them as undeserving of basic rights and undermining their ability to achieve economic stability; parent with dignity; and live healthy, productive lives.

Jamila Taylor

Faith and Reproductive Justice Voices on the Contraception Mandate Video

Faith and Reproductive Justice Voices on the Contraception Mandate

Faith and reproductive justice leaders speak out against President Trump’s rule to deny women contraceptive coverage.

Jamila Taylor, LaShawn Y. Warren, Andrew Satter

Ivanka Trump’s Report Card on Women’s and Working Families’ Issues Report
The Trump administration's attacks on LGBTQ equality and the Affordable Care Act harm vulnerable transgender children. (AP/Brennan Linsley)

Ivanka Trump’s Report Card on Women’s and Working Families’ Issues

On the heels of Ivanka Trump asking for lowered expectations of what she can achieve, this report card attempts to assess how well she has honored her promises to women and working families, and to map out ways to improve her work going forward.

Kaitlin Holmes, Shilpa Phadke, Jocelyn Frye, 4 More Laura E. Durso, Kate Bahn, Jamila Taylor, Katie Hamm

ACA Repeal Would Have Disproportionately Harmed Women of Color Article
A woman holds her 2-month-old baby in Greenville, South Carolina, June 2014. (AP/Richard Shiro)

ACA Repeal Would Have Disproportionately Harmed Women of Color

Efforts to repeal the ACA would have made women of color more vulnerable as they sought to protect their health and provide for their families.

Heidi Williamson

Who Seeks Religious Accommodations to Providing Contraceptive Coverage? Article
Any effort to deny access to affordable contraceptive care is an infringement on women’s reproductive rights and justice, March 2014 (AP/Charles Dharapak)

Who Seeks Religious Accommodations to Providing Contraceptive Coverage?

New data show that for-profit corporations make up the majority of entities seeking exemptions from providing no-cost contraception under the Affordable Care Act.

Laura E. Durso, Sharita Gruberg, Jamila Taylor, 1 More Theresa Chalhoub

Community Health Centers Can’t Go It Alone Article
A women's health clinic in San Antonio, June 2016. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Community Health Centers Can’t Go It Alone

Conservatives often claim that if Planned Parenthood health centers are shut down, community health centers can absorb their patients and the costs, but such actions are unrealistic and will harm women and families.

Heidi Williamson

100 Days, 100 Ways the Trump Administration Is Harming Women and Families Report

100 Days, 100 Ways the Trump Administration Is Harming Women and Families

It has only been 100 days since President Trump took office, and millions of American women and families are already feeling the adverse impacts of his administration’s misguided agenda.

Sunny Frothingham, Shilpa Phadke

Reproductive Justice Beyond Biology Article
A woman walks on a street in Baltimore, February 6, 2012. (AP/Patrick Semansky)

Reproductive Justice Beyond Biology

Loretta J. Ross on the need for a more comprehensive understanding of how public policies affecting a woman’s autonomy over her body have implications beyond just issues of birth control, abortion, and sterilization.

Loretta J. Ross

5 Things You Need to Know About Judge Gorsuch Video

5 Things You Need to Know About Judge Gorsuch

President Donald Trump has nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch to fill the currently vacant seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. Here are five things you need to know about Judge Gorsuch.

Andrew Satter, Aki Suzuki, Billy Corriher, 1 More Jake Faleschini

What’s at Stake for Women: Threat of the Global Gag Rule Report
A doctor explains family planning pills to a patient in Kibera Slums, Nairobi, Kenya, January 2009.

What’s at Stake for Women: Threat of the Global Gag Rule

The Global Gag Rule is likely to be the first of many Trump administration executive actions aimed at derailing access to women’s health care.

Kiersten Gillette-Pierce, Jamila Taylor

12 Faith Leaders to Watch in 2017 Article
The Rev. Michael Curry gives a hug before a march and rally against gun violence, on June 28, 2015. (AP/Rick Bowmer)

12 Faith Leaders to Watch in 2017

In 2017, the voices and actions of these 12 faith leaders will be integral to advancing dignity and equity for all.

Tracy Wolf, Claire Markham

How Trump Threatens a Woman’s Right to Reproductive Health Care Video

How Trump Threatens a Woman’s Right to Reproductive Health Care

Faced with President-elect Trump's threat to repeal the Affordable Care Act, women must consider long-term options for contraceptives.

Aki Suzuki, Andrew Satter, Jamila Taylor, 1 More Kaitlin Holmes

Open Questions on National Security for President-Elect Donald Trump Article
Donald Trump gives a foreign policy speech at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C., on April 27, 2016. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Open Questions on National Security for President-Elect Donald Trump

Increasingly serious national security questions face the president-elect amid growing conflicts of interest.

CAP National Security and International Policy Department

4 Progressive Policies that Make Families Stronger Report
Boxes containing signatures gathered by the Arizona Healthy Working Families Initiative group sit on display in Phoenix, Arizona on July 7, 2016. (AP/Ross D. Franklin)

4 Progressive Policies that Make Families Stronger

States with conservative policy agendas fare worse on a range of family-related indicators than states with progressive policy agendas.

Katherine Gallagher Robbins, Shawn Fremstad

Addressing Challenges to Progressive Religious Liberty in North Carolina Report
Signage is shown outside of a restroom in Durham, North Carolina, on May 12, 2016. (AP/Gerry Broome)

Addressing Challenges to Progressive Religious Liberty in North Carolina

North Carolina must strike a proper balance between true religious freedom and the other cherished rights and freedoms that keep the nation’s democracy strong.

Carolyn Davis, Lauren Kokum, Claire Markham

Infographic: The Real Cost of Abortion Article

Infographic: The Real Cost of Abortion

The United States’ most vulnerable women continue to struggle to protect both their reproductive health and their economic security.

Heidi Williamson

Hearing Faith Voices Raised Against Hyde Article
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Hearing Faith Voices Raised Against Hyde

Repealing the Hyde Amendment is in line with numerous faith traditions, which support providing all women access to safe, affordable, and timely abortions.

Tracy Wolf

Faith Voices on Reproductive Justice: Religion and Equality Video

Faith Voices on Reproductive Justice: Religion and Equality

We asked faith leaders from around the country to discuss the role of faith in the reproductive justice movement.

Claire Markham, Lauren Kokum, Kulsum Ebrahim

How Government Inaction Thwarts Equal Access to Reproductive Health Care Article
A nurse practitioner gives a pregnant patient information about mosquito protection on August 2, 2016, in Miami. (AP/Lynne Sladky)

How Government Inaction Thwarts Equal Access to Reproductive Health Care

Anti-choice politicians who prioritize their personal beliefs over women’s health prevent access to reproductive health services for all women but particularly for low-income women and women of color.

Lauren Kokum

When It Comes to Your Health, Whose Judgment Do You Trust? Report
Pro-abortion rights protesters rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, March 2, 2016. (AP/Susan Walsh)

When It Comes to Your Health, Whose Judgment Do You Trust?

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Whole Woman’s Health holds implications for medical practice in the United States.

Maggie Jo Buchanan

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