RHAP is having a sale! Throughout the month of August, our merchandise, including our popular “Your Birth Control Choices” poster and our brand new “Birth Control Across the Gender Spectrum” patient education fact sheet, will be 15% off. Just use the promo code “AUG18”. We offer these resources in high-quality color prints that are great for health centers, clinicians’ offices, and…
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.…
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…
The Reproductive Health Care and Advocacy Fellowship is now accepting applications! This one-year fellowship is open to family physicians and aims to develop leaders who will promote and teach full-spectrum reproductive health care within family medicine. We are recruiting for fellowship positions in New York City and Boston. Fellows will be “trainers in training,” learning…
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,…
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,…
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…
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…
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,…
Drs. Wohler and Graham are family medicine residents in Rhode Island and members of the Rhode Island Cluster. They generously agreed to share their experience testifying for the Rhode Island Reproductive Health Care Act at the Rhode Island Capital this spring. Diana: As a family medicine resident with an interest in women’s health and reproductive…