| Network Report
Thursday, April 6, 2023 |
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Reproductive health care encompasses essential health care services for persons who may become pregnant, including safe and legal abortion care, contraception, and the use of assisted reproductive technologies. Ensuring reproductive health care access is critical, as access to care can profoundly impact physical and mental health at the individual level and across populations through intersections with social determinants of health. This edition of the Network Report compiles information and resources on laws and policies impacting reproductive health so far in 2023. Our full collection of resources can be found here.
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Key Health Policy Changes Promoting Reproductive Justice
The legal impacts of the overturning of Roe vs Wade have predominantly fallen on pregnancy-capable individuals of color. Despite current serious limitations on access, several states have recently taken important steps toward reproductive justice through the adoption of key health policies. |
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| Maryland’s Approach to Enhancing Access to Abortion: Expanding Scope of Practice Maryland’s Abortion Care Access Act is the first of its kind in the U.S. The new law expands the scope of practice for certain health care providers to allow them to provide abortion care, aims to increase provider diversity through training programs, and improves affordability and equity by requiring insurance coverage for abortion care. |
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| First Amendment Implications for Reproductive Rights
This resource provides an overview of several distinct First Amendment arguments that have arisen regarding state laws that restrict or guarantee access to abortions and other reproductive freedoms following Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. |
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The majority of abortions in the U.S. are medical abortions, a safe and effective method for early pregnancy, initiated by patients using a medication regimen. Medical abortions, also called chemical abortions or abortion pills, are one of the new battlegrounds on which political and legal wars are being fought. This fact sheet provides information on the drug regimen for medication abortion and the current legal challenges to their use. |
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| Medication Abortion: A Federal-State Legal Tug-of-War
Some states have taken substantial steps to inhibit medication abortion access while the Biden administration has implemented measures to expand it. This has created confusion about the legality and availability of medication abortion. This fact sheet analyzes ongoing federal-state conflicts over medication abortion accessibility and public health ramifications. |
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| Public Health’s Preemption Problem: Key Health Justice Impacts and Updates April 12, 2023 | 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. EST
Recently, preemption landscapes have changed in certain key arenas including transgender discrimination, race in school curricula, and reproductive health. Attend this webinar to learn about the current U.S. preemption landscape in these arenas through the lens of health equity and justice to illustrate both the power of preemptive actions as well as the potential threats certain preemptive actions may pose to the public’s health. |
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| 2023 Public Health Law Conference
October 24 – 26, 2023 The 2023 Public Health Law Conference will focus on collaborative efforts to harness the power of law and policy to make real and lasting change. Over 40 sessions will address core issues related to: - Structural inequities in health outcomes.
- Reproductive health equity.
- Public health data use to advance health equity.
- The role of law in facilitating system change.
- Emerging issues.
Learn more and register. |
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Post-Dobbs State Abortion Restrictions and Protections
After the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, some states moved quickly to ban abortion whole others strengthened protections for abortion. New “shield laws” attempt to limit the liability of abortion providers and patients who travel to another state to receive care that is increasingly becoming criminalized. This dataset from Temple University’s Center for Public Health Law Research and the Society of Family Planning provides a high-level overview of state abortion restrictions and protections enacted post-Dobbs, tracking key legal developments from June 1, 2022 through January 1, 2023.
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Senior Program Coordinator
The Network’s National office is seeking a Senior Program Coordinator to support our Executive Director in key initiatives and administrative activities. This role requires excellent communications skills, planning, problem-solving aptitude, time management, nuanced relationship navigation, attention to detail, and the ability to meet deadlines while juggling multiple requests. This is a hybrid position, based in the D.C. metro area. View the job description and apply.
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