Insights: Best Practices for Making Your Offices Physically Accessible for Disabled Patients Seeking Abortion Care

Written by Julia Wang, MD and Jillian MacLeod, Esq. As we experience ongoing attacks on abortion access and provision, it is important to highlight the numerous barriers to equitable care that disabled patients face. These barriers include inaccessible online information about abortion services (for example, websites that lack straightforward language or are incompatible with screen…

Insights: Abortion Care for Fat Patients

Written by Mansi Shah, MD What special considerations might there be for fat patients seeking abortion care? In this article, the word fat here is used in the tradition of fat scholars and activists who do so with the aim of reclaiming the word as a neutral descriptor of bodies.1 Fat folks encounter significant stigma…

Insights: Supported Decision-Making for Patients with Disabilities That Affect Capacity

Written by Jillian MacLeod This Insights provides information about supported decision-making (SDM), which can be used as a tool in obtaining informed consent from people with disabilities that affect their decision-making capacity, like intellectual/developmental disabilities (I/DD) or cognitive disabilities. A patient’s decision to access abortion or early pregnancy loss care is a significant one. As…

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…

Your Birth Control Choices Fact Sheet

This patient fact sheet compares different birth control choices in a colorful and easy to read chart. The methods are organized alphabetically. The sheet includes essential information about each method, how to use, impact on bleeding/menstruation, along with common side effects. Ideal for health centers, doctor’s offices, and school clinics.

Re-introducing Insights!

RHAP is excited to re-introduce Insights, a revival of our short, monthly e-newsletter offering primary care clinicians evidence-based education on abortion and early pregnancy loss care. Modeled after Contraceptive Pearls, Insights will share practice guidelines, clinical tools, and resources that reinforce and support evidence-based, person-centered abortion and early pregnancy loss care and counseling, including post-abortion and self-managed…

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Since the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Health Women’s Organization to overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, states where abortion access is secure (aka “surge states”) have experienced an unprecedented rise in patients who have the privilege and resources to travel out of state to seek care. This increased demand has put enormous strain on existing…

August 2022

New research highlights the role of Family Medicine in expanding abortion access RHAP lent its perspective and expertise to the research that resulted in two recently published studies that address access to medication abortion in family medicine.  “Family Physicians’ Barriers and Facilitators in Incorporating Medication Abortion” highlights the role training and technical assistance play in…

Statement on Disability Pride Month

July is Disability Pride Month, which began in 1990 after the landmark passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)! The Reproductive Health Access Project believes that there is no reproductive liberation without full bodily autonomy for all people, including people with disabilities. We envision a world where all individuals and communities have equitable access…

Telehealth for Reproductive Health Care Resources

Telehealth services have emerged as an important tool for expanding access and availability of patient-centered reproductive health care, including contraception, abortion, and early pregnancy loss care. While telehealth will not remove all barriers and enhance equity for all, it is one important option that RHAP is prepared to support health care workers to implement and…