Family Planning

Access to reliable contraception and other preventive reproductive health care services is an essential part of basic health care for women.  We’re working to ensure that women have access to affordable contraceptive care, including emergency contraception, to help protect their health, prevent unintended pregnancies, and improve their lives.

Highlights

Fact Sheet | The Blunt Amendment Takes Away Access to Critical Health Insurance Coverage for Millions of Americans

February 10, 2012

The Blunt Amendment gives virtually limitless and unprecedented license to any employer or insurance plan, religious or not, to exclude any health service, no matter how essential, in the health services they cover.

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Fact Sheet | Title VII Requires Covered Employers to Provide Contraceptive Coverage

February 9, 2012

For a PDF version of this fact sheet with footnotes see below.

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Fact Sheet | Letter to the President Opposing the Religious Employer Exemption

November 30, 2011

The undersigned organizations, representing millions of health care consumers, patients and providers, strongly supported passage of the Affordable Care Act and are working to protect the Act from efforts to undermine or repeal it. To that end, we are writing in opposition to the religious employer exemption issued as an Interim Final Rule on August 3, 2011, to the requirement that all new health insurance plans provide coverage for contraceptives without cost-sharing, and to urge you to reject calls to deny additional women the coverage they need.

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Fact Sheet | The Rehberg Draft Abuses the Appropriations Process to Undermine Women’s Access to Preventive Health Care and Harm Women’s Health

November 30, 2011

The Rehberg Draft includes dangerous provisions that could threaten women’s ability to purchase health insurance that includes abortion coverage, aims to eliminate millions of women’s access to basic, preventive healthcare, and expands existing refusal laws that would harm women’s health.

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More Resources

Fact Sheet | The Blunt Amendment Takes Away Access to Critical Health Insurance Coverage for Millions of Americans

February 10, 2012

The Blunt Amendment gives virtually limitless and unprecedented license to any employer or insurance plan, religious or not, to exclude any health service, no matter how essential, in the health services they cover.

 Read more...

Fact Sheet | Title VII Requires Covered Employers to Provide Contraceptive Coverage

February 09, 2012

For a PDF version of this fact sheet with footnotes see below.

 Read more...

Fact Sheet | The Rehberg Draft Abuses the Appropriations Process to Undermine Women’s Access to Preventive Health Care and Harm Women’s Health

November 30, 2011

The Rehberg Draft includes dangerous provisions that could threaten women’s ability to purchase health insurance that includes abortion coverage, aims to eliminate millions of women’s access to basic, preventive healthcare, and expands existing refusal laws that would harm women’s health.

 Read more...

Fact Sheet | Letter to the President Opposing the Religious Employer Exemption

November 30, 2011

The undersigned organizations, representing millions of health care consumers, patients and providers, strongly supported passage of the Affordable Care Act and are working to protect the Act from efforts to undermine or repeal it. To that end, we are writing in opposition to the religious employer exemption issued as an Interim Final Rule on August 3, 2011, to the requirement that all new health insurance plans provide coverage for contraceptives without cost-sharing, and to urge you to reject calls to deny additional women the coverage they need.

 Read more...

Fact Sheet | The D.C. Abortion Ban Threatens Women's Health

November 15, 2011

The District of Columbia—unlike any other state—is currently barred from using its local funds to provide abortion services for low-income women.  This ban prohibits D.C. from deciding how to spend its own revenue and threatens the health of its residents.

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