The Reproductive Health Impact Study (RHIS) is a multiyear comprehensive research initiative that analyzed the effects of federal and state policy changes on US publicly funded family planning care from 2017 to 2024. The Guttmacher Institute worked with research and policy partners in four states—Arizona, Iowa, New Jersey and Wisconsin—to document the impact of these policies on family planning service delivery and the patients who rely on this care.| Guttmacher Institute
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
Two years after the US Supreme Court revoked the constitutional right to abortion, an increasingly robust body of evidence is emerging that illustrates the myriad harms caused and exacerbated by the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision. Several dozen peer-reviewed studies and other rigorous research conducted since June 2022 illustrate key facets of the impact of Dobbs, including data on changes in clinic numbers, abortion incidence and travel for abortion care. This empiri...| Guttmacher Institute
