Abortion

Aug 21

Intern with RHAP This Fall!

The Reproductive Health Access Project (RHAP) is now recruiting interns for Fall 2018! Our Interns play a key role in ensuring that the Reproductive Health Access Project fulfills its mission by supporting the staff of this small but busy organization. We are currently seeking a Development Intern, a Communications Intern and a Programs Intern to begin work in September.…

Aug 14

RHAP Welcomes our 2018-2019 Fellows!

Every year, RHAP selects a group of primary care physicians who are dedicated to providing and teaching reproductive health care within family medicine for our Fellowship program. Take some time to get to know the wonderful physicians who have joined our team for our year-long Reproductive Health Care and Advocacy Fellowship! Sarah Valliere, DO Sarah…

Jul 23

Focus on a Cluster: Georgia

This month, RHAP is excited to highlight our newest Reproductive Health Access Network Cluster in Georgia, which met in June for the very first time. If you’re a clinician in the Atlanta area who would like to be connected with the Cluster, please email Laura Riker at laura@reproductiveaccess.org.   After moving to Atlanta from the Bay Area,…

Jul 11

Support RHAP on Prime Day

Amazon Prime Day is coming up on July 16th and what better way to take advantage of the deals than by also supporting RHAP? When you shop online on Amazon, use Amazon Smile at smile.amazon.com and Amazon will donate a portion of the purchase price to the Reproductive Health Access Project. Just go to smile.amazon.com,…

Jul 09

Spotlight on a Fellow: Olivia Perlmutt

Olivia Perlmutt is wrapping up a busy two-year fellowship training program that provided her with intensive training in reproductive health care and a Master in Public Health from the City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. Her two-year fellowship program combined health care, research and advocacy. “The fellowship provided…

Jul 05

Midwives: Reclaiming Abortion

The first abortion providers were midwives, not physicians. In the United States, as the practice of medicine started to become “professionalized,” male physicians began driving midwives and women healers out of practice. Midwives – especially black grand midwives – were publically demonized. When the American Medical Association started criminalizing abortion in the 20th Century they…

Jun 29

Pride Month: Janet Mock

In 2014, Janet Mock took over the media with her memoir Redefining Realness. The memoir debuted on the New York Times Bestsellers List, the first to be written from the perspective of a young trans person. As a writer, Janet has never intended to become an activist or an advocate—while those words are attributed to her,…

Jun 22

Pride Month: Carmen Vazquez

I imagine a world where all children will have the knowledge and access to technology and sexual health that our scientific community is capable of providing right now. I imagine a world without AIDS. I imagine a world where health care, social security and other benefits are not tied to marriage. I imagine a world…