Reproductive health

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This collection examines issues related to reproductive health, including the legality of reproductive services (reproductive rights), access to those services (reproductive health), and how societal factors such as race or social status impact access to and decisions about reproductive health (reproductive justice). This includes everything from contraception and comprehensive sex education, to abortion and pre-natal and pregnancy care, as well as other issues that inform a person’s full reproductive autonomy. This special collection brings together knowledge and insights from organizations addressing reproductive health related issues and explores the impact foundations and nonprofits are having on this work.

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Communities Need Clinics: The New Landscape of Independent Abortion Clinics in the United States

December 6, 2022

Abortion Care Network's annual report on the landscape of abortion care access in the United States and the critical role that independent abortion clinics play in maintaining access.

Communities Need Clinics: Independent Clinics - Leading the Fight to Sustain Abortion Access in the United States

December 1, 2021

Independent abortion clinics —not private physicians' offices, hospitals, or Planned Parenthood health centers— provide the majority of abortion care in the United States. Although independent abortion clinics represent about 25 percent of the facilities offering abortion care, they provide 58 percent of all abortion procedures nationwide.All of these providers are necessary to ensuring access to reproductive health care, including abortion—yet independent abortion care providers remain relatively absent from public conversations. These clinics lack the institutional support, visibility, name recognition, or fundraising capacity of national health centers and hospitals, making it especially difficult for them to secure the resources needed to keep their doors open.Independent abortion clinics serve some of the most politically hostile areas of the country, provide a breadth of reproductive health services, and work with their communities and abortion funds to ensure that services are available to those patients with the fewest resources. They are bold advocates in their communities, states, and on the national stage—often fighting for and ensuring the legal right to access abortion.Meaningful access to abortion care in the United States depends on independent abortion care providers keeping their doors open and continuing to provide quality, compassionate, patient-centered care. Unfortunately, independent providers are also the most vulnerable to anti-abortion attacks and legislation intended to close clinic doors or push abortion out of reach. Because independent clinics are more likely to provide more comprehensive abortion options, provide care as pregnancy progresses, and operate in the most politically hostile states, threats to these clinics are a threat to abortion access overall

Communities Need Clinics: The Essential Role of Independent Abortion Clinics in the United States

December 1, 2020

Independent abortion clinics collectively provide the majority of abortion care in the United States, serving three out of every five people who has an abortion. These clinics provide care when and where others do not—operating in the most hostile states and compassionately providing care as pregnancy progresses. Yet independent clinic closures are unrelenting: the total number of independent clinics in the U.S. has been reduced by over a third since 2012.The COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent economic crisis have put a truly unprecedented strain on independent abortion clinics in the U.S. With continued efforts to restrict abortion at the state level and an anti-abortion, conservative majority on the Supreme Court, access to legal abortion care is under imminent threat. To ensure that people in the United States can get abortion care where and when they need it, independent clinics and the patients they serve need the support of their communities. Advocates must work to end the politically motivated restrictions and coverage bans that push abortion out of reach for patients, and clinics need direct financial and volunteer support to continue to provide care in their communities.Abortion Care Network's fourth annual Communities Need Clinics report provides an overview of the care provided by independent abortion clinics, highlights the vital role they play in ensuring meaningful access throughout the U.S., includes clinic closure rates, and discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on independent abortion care providers.

Communities Need Clinics: Independent Abortion Care Providers and the Landscape of Abortion Care in the United States

December 2, 2019

Independent abortion clinics collectively provide the majority of abortion care in the United States, serving three out of every five people who has an abortion. These clinics provide care when and where others do not — operating in the most hostile states and compassionately providing care as pregnancy progresses. Yet independent clinics are closing at an unprecedented rate: the number of independent clinics in the US has been reduced by over 32 percent since 2012.With the recent shift in the balance of the Supreme Court, access to legal abortion care is under imminent threat. To ensure that people in the United States can get abortion care where and when they need it, independent clinics and the patients they serve need the support of their communities. Advocates must work to end the politically motivated restrictions and coverage bans that push abortion out of reach for patients, and clinics need direct financial and volunteer support to continue to provide care in their communities.Abortion Care Network's third annual Communities Need Clinics report provides an overview of the care provided by independent abortion clinics, highlights the vital role they play in ensuring meaningful access throughout the U.S., includes clinic closure rates, and discusses the state-by-state fight to ensure that abortion remains legal and accessible.

Communities Need Clinics: Independent Abortion Care Providers and the Future of Abortion Access in the United States

December 3, 2018

Independent abortion clinics collectively provide the majority of abortion care in the United States, serving 3 out of every 5 people who has an abortion. These clinics provide care when and where others do not — operating in the most hostile states and courageously providing care as pregnancy progresses. Yet independent clinics are closing at an unprecedented rate: the number of independent clinics has been reduced by nearly 28 percent since 2012.With the recent shift in the balance of the Supreme Court, access to legal abortion care is under imminent threat. To ensure that people in the United States can get abortion care where and when they need it, independent clinics and the patients they serve need the support of their communities. Advocates must work to end the politicallymotivated restrictions and coverage bans that push abortion out of reach for patients, and clinics need direct financial and volunteer support to continue to provide care in their communities.Abortion Care Network's second annual Communities Need Clinics report provides an overview of the care provided by independent abortion clinics, highlights the vital role they play in ensuring meaningful access throughout the U.S., includes clinic closure rates, and discusses the importance of independent abortion care providers in a future without Roe v Wade.

Communities Need Clinics: The Role of Independent Abortion Care Providers in Ensuring Meaningful Access to Abortion Care in the United States

December 1, 2017

Independent abortion clinics – not private physicians' offices, nationally affiliated health care centers, or hospitals – collectively provide the majority of abortion care in the United States. These clinics provide care when and where others do not, operating in the most hostile states and courageously providing care as pregnancy progresses. However, despite this needed service, independent clinics are closing at an unprecedented rate; nearly 30 percent of independent clinics have closed over the past five years.To ensure continued access to abortion care in the United States, independent abortion clinics and the patients they serve need legal protection and community support. Proactive state and federal legislative efforts as well as direct financial and volunteer supports are critical to ensuring the well-being of these community-based providers.