contraception access

New maps reveal massive gaps in access to affordable birth control across the U.S.

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There are 21.4 million women in the U.S. who need subsidized birth control living in a county somewhere with limited access. That’s the major takeaway from a new analysis of contraception access from two reproductive policy organizations, Power to Decide and the Guttmacher Institute, shared exclusively with NPR. Both organizations are nonprofit and nonpartisan, and … Read more

Abortion trauma is a myth. Irish women don’t need laws to make them ‘reflect’ on their choices – opinion

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The debate in Ireland thus cannot be separated from a wider global political climate in which reproductive autonomy is increasingly being treated as socially destabilising and in need of policing. Across the US, a rollback of abortion rights has unfolded alongside escalating attacks on contraception access, sex education and trans rights, all under the language … Read more