Reflecting Back in Gratitude

2020 has been a difficult year. Like so many others, the RHAP community was deeply impacted by COVID-19. In addition to the personal impact of this pandemic, our organization faced a number of new challenges. We moved our office to be 100% remote at the beginning of the pandemic. We had to learn new rhythms,…

Working Toward Equitable Reproductive Health Care Access During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic

Inequities in reproductive health care, including abortion, have long existed in the United States. State legislatures have sought to erode Roe v. Wade by enacting policies that restrict or delay access to and provision of abortion services. This has primarily impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), adolescents, and families living below the federal…

December 2020

December 2020    Give the Gift of Access We did it! We met our $10,000 match and raised a total of $33,000 on #GivingTuesday! Thank you! Missed out on Giving Tuesday? You can still donate to our year-end campaign.  From now until December 31st, RHAP is raising funds to mobilize, train, and support clinicians to…

July 2020

July 2020 Breaking Medication Abortion Care News On July 13th, a federal judge in Maryland suspended a FDA rule that requires people seeking medication abortion care to visit a hospital or clinic in-person to obtain mifepristone, one of two medications used in a medication abortion. This ruling allows providers around the country to mail or…

What Is Telehealth?

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, you may have heard that health care centers around the country are increasing their telehealth (or telemedicine) services. As we continue to socially distance to protect one another from this virus, telehealth can be a vital tool for health care systems to ensure that everyone can get reproductive health care safely…

June 2020

June 2020   Black Lives Matter | Rooting Our Values in Action The Reproductive Health Access Project condemns anti-Black, state-sanctioned violence and the brutal murders of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Tony McDade, Ahmaud Arbery, David McAtee, and of countless other Black folks lost to the system of white supremacy upon which this country was founded.…

July 2016

Newsletter/July 2016 Victory for Reproductive Rights at the Supreme Court  We are overjoyed that the Supreme Court has ruled to protect abortion access! Our clinicians in Texas saw the negative impact that HB2’s clinic closings had on  the 5.4 million women of reproductive age in Texas. This landmark 5-3 decision sets a strong precedent for protecting and normalizing access…