Title X, the United States’s publicly funded family planning program, was established in the 1970s with the express goal of reducing inequities in access to contraception and other reproductive health care. Because it helps clinics provide such services to people who have low incomes, are uninsured or come from disadvantaged communities, the Title X program is critical to ensuring reproductive autonomy. | Guttmacher Institute
The Trump administration has established a clear pattern of attacking sexual and reproductive health and rights, both in the United States and abroad. It is part of a calculated strategy of going after services and systems that benefit critical populations, including women, immigrants, the LGBTQ+ community and many others.1 Although this strategy is designed to support domestic political goals, its impact is felt acutely by individuals around the world.| Guttmacher Institute
World Population Prospects 2024: Summary of Results| www.un.org
The landscape of abortion access in the United States continues to shift rapidly in the wake of the Supreme Court’s June 2022 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade and eliminated the federal constitutional right to abortion. Since then, many state legislatures have created new abortion restrictions and bans, and many have begun enforcing existing ones. Research has long indicated that abortion bans of all types have the greatest impact on peo...| Guttmacher Institute
As a leading funder of global health programs, the United States has the power to make a tremendous impact on people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights. But restrictions on funding that target abortion care internationally have had broad, detrimental impacts on reproductive health care systems, advocacy and outcomes. Such is the case with the so-called global gag rule, a policy that conditions US global health assistance on nongovernmental organizations’ agreement not to provide ...| Guttmacher Institute
In some countries, politicians are trying to restrict women's rights and access to contraception to try to increase the birth rate.| Population Matters
Investigators are still piecing together the motives of the mass shooter who killed 10 people at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, this weekend. But authorities aren't hesitating to call it a racially motivated attack.| PBS News