Happy Pride Month!

The early hours of June 28, 1969, became a turning point for the LGBT community in the streets of New York City’s West Village. What initially began as a raid by the NYPD of the infamous mafia-run bar, Stonewall Inn, became a series of violent protests that lasted for six days. It quickly turned into…

May 2023 Newsletter

RHAP Celebrates AAPI Heritage Month This May, RHAP recognizes and celebrates Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month.  Reproductive health and justice strongly impacts AAPI individuals, particularly the high population of immigrants and women without access to health care. AAPI people face barriers to reproductive care including language barriers, being in jobs that are frequently…

November 2018

November 2018 RHAP Speaks Out Against the Trump Gender Memo  The mission of the Reproductive Health Access Project (RHAP) is to expand and protect access to reproductive health care for everyone – this includes people of all gender identities and expressions. For us, expanding and protecting access means ensuring clinicians have the training and resources…

September 2018

Happy Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month! On September 15, 1821, five Central American nations – Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua – declared independence from Spanish colonial rule. Fast forward to 1988, when the date was chosen as the starting point of Hispanic Heritage Month to commemorate those anniversaries. The Latinx community is the fastest-growing…

June 2018

New Patient Ed Materials! We are excited to announce that our brand-new fact sheet, “Birth Control Across the Gender Spectrum,” is now available on our website and in our store. This patient education tool covers a comprehensive list of birth control options for folks of varied gender experiences, particularly for people taking gender-affirming hormones like…

May 2018

From Abortion Rights to Social Justice On the weekend of April 14, Reproductive Health Access Project (RHAP) team members (staff, fellows, and interns) attended the 37th annual  From Abortion Rights to Social Justice: Building the Movement for Reproductive Freedom Conference at Hampshire College. The conference aims to “…inspire, educate, train and support new activists and leadership to…

September 2017

International Safe Abortion Day: September 28 On September 28th RHAP is joining forces with more than 1,200 organizations worldwide to organize actions in support of the right to safe abortion. This international day of action is built around four principles:  1) access to safe and legal abortion is a human right; 2) human rights need…

July 2023 Newsletter

RHAP Welcomes New Executive Director! Please join us in welcoming the Reproductive Health Access Project’s new Executive Director, Danise Wilson!  Danise comes to RHAP with extensive experience in nonprofit leadership, management, and growth. She is a fierce advocate for community education and health care access, and her previous role as the Executive Director of Erie…

March 2019

March 2019   Trump Administration Moves Toward Implementing the Domestic Gag Rule This past June, the Trump Administration proposed rule changes to the Title X family planning funding, aimed at blocking people from getting accurate information about their reproductive health care options. More than half a million comments were submitted to the Department of Health…