And thanks to
increased access to birth control, the rate of unintended pregnancy is at a 30 - year low and the rate of pregnancy among teenagers is at a historic low.
More than 200 million people in developing countries who want to delay or plan childbirth
lack access to birth control, information, and services.
«Planned Parenthood supports covering birth control with no co-pays and has launched the Birth Control Matters campaign to highlight this important provision in the health care law and educate the public about the importance
of access to birth control in preventing unintended pregnancies and improving women and children's health outcomes.»
Furthermore, Kelly Ayotte won't
protect access to birth control coverage, and proposed a plan that would make more women pay for birth control by undermining the health law that gave nearly 300,000 New Hampshire women access to no - copay birth control.
As it stands, there remains just $ 38 million of a roughly $ 100 million biennial budget to provide these vital health services — screenings for cervical and breast cancers and for diabetes and hypertension, as well
as access to birth control, among other preventative health services that together make up a «well - woman checkup.»
After outlining cruel priorities in last year's budget, the administration then worked to chip away
at access to birth control and women's health.
Noting that approximately half of all pregnancies are unplanned, he said
reducing access to birth control could increase the number of unintended pregnancies among women exposed to Zika through travel, sexual contact, or the new local outbreak.
It's important for Latinos to have
access to birth control because when you can choose when and how you have children, you can raise up your family, and when you raise up your family you raise up your community.
Since Griswold, we've led the charge for insurance coverage for contraceptives, advocated for over-the-counter access to emergency contraception and worked to make sure women can
get access to their birth control at their pharmacy without discrimination or delay.»
And why on earth
oppose access to birth control and reforms in the health care system when those will likely make the biggest difference in actually curbing abortions in this country?
«We think
improving access to birth control, particularly IUDs [intrauterine devices] and [hormone] implants, coupled with education on the most effective methods, has the potential to significantly decrease the number of unintended pregnancies and abortions in this country.»
Moynihan, believing that the «pathologies» troubling black families were deep, interrelated, and complicated, privately favored a range of solutions, including
greater access to birth control, generous family allowances such as those available in Western European democracies, and (mainly for males) substantial public - works programs.
Planned Parenthood Action Fund of New Jersey is celebrating that New Jersey women are one vote closer to increased
access to birth control after an Assembly vote on legislation requiring insurance companies to cover costs for dispensing up to six months of contraceptives at one time.
Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania (PPWP) traces its origins back to the hot summer of 1916, when a group of 35 Pittsburghers — including doctors, civic workers, minsters, business leaders, and homemakers — were challenged by the undeniable need for
legal access to birth control information and services.
To underscore the importance of these issues to New Jersey voters, recent polling from the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute and the Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling at Rutgers showed that 78 percent of New Jersey voters — including 46 percent of Republicans — support state funding for family planning services, and 76 percent of New Jersey voters
support access to birth control with no out - of - pocket costs.
«The Comprehensive Contraception Coverage Act will ensure that all New Yorkers have
access to the birth control method they need to stay healthy and effectively plan for their future — no matter what happens in Congress.»
In the previous legislative session, there were many bad bills that negatively
affect access to birth control (HB2625), funding for family planning (HB2800), abortion (HB2036), and unbiased information about unintended pregnancies in public schools (SB1009).
Up and down the ballot, women's health champions are facing opponents who threaten to take us backward
on access to birth control coverage; backward on access to safe, legal abortion; and backward on access to care at Planned Parenthood health centers.
Now, if you're going to be an activist feminist, there are a couple of extra things you probably need to support (
like access to birth control and anti-poverty measures).