Advocacy Round-Up: Take action in 5 minutes or less! We know that with everything going on these days in the government, the media, the workplace, our personal lives, and more, keeping up on what’s happening in reproductive health, rights, and justice can be difficult. Check out a few major updates – and some easy, quick…
March 10th is National Abortion Provider Appreciation Day – and RHAP is celebrating all month long! Join us in celebrating the resilience, compassion, and dedication to patient-centered care of abortion care clinicians. To our clinician community: We thank you, we value you, and we want to show our gratitude this Abortion Provider Appreciation Day! This…
Throughout 2021, RHAP worked within the American Public Health Association’s (APHA) Sexual and Reproductive Health section to propose a policy statement urging APHA to publicly back decriminalizing and supporting self-managed abortion. In November, with support from a variety of APHA sections outside of reproductive health, the APHA adopted our policy statement, which is now available…
January 22nd marked the 49th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that established legal abortion across the United States. RHAP and RHEDI started as one organization based in New York City called the Access Project. For over twenty years, we have been honoring the Roe v. Wade court decision by gathering…
Introduce yourself and tell us a bit about your background and history in abortion care My name is Khashae (Shae) Jackson (she/her/hers) and I’m the creator of K.E.J. Services, LLC, a hub of abortion resources, education and a center for advocacy. I started my abortion journey in 2015 as a pregnant and confused college student.…
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has long regulated mifepristone, also known as the abortion pill, under a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS). Despite mifepristone and misoprostol being one safe, effective way to provide abortion and early pregnancy loss (EPL) care, the FDA restrictions have limited where and who can provide this essential…
Thanks to over 400 supporters, we raised over $260,000 for our 2021 year-end campaign! Your support, and the impact it has on clinicians and patients, keep us inspired. Thank you for taking a stand for reproductive health care and committing to expand access to this necessary care. We are ready to take on 2022 with…
2022 is going to be a heck of a year for abortion access. While it’s impossible to predict the future, the reality represented in this map is rapidly approaching. At RHAP – and across the reproductive health, rights, and justice movements – we are gearing up to face a future where Roe v. Wade is…
The Reproductive Health Access Project (RHAP) and Reproductive Health Education in Family Medicine (RHEDI), two long-time partners in reproductive health education and service delivery, invite you to a virtual fundraising event at 8pm EST on Thursday, January 20th to reflect on the 49th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, the Supreme Court decision that…
I missed my colleagues so much on Wednesday, December 1. I wanted to be with them, listening to the presentation of the pivotal Mississippi abortion case, known as Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, to the Supreme Court. We would have been breaking down every argument and analyzing every statement. But I have been on leave…