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Reproductive Equity Now Condemns Trump Administration’s Revocation of Protections for Emergency, Life-Saving Abortion Care
Reproductive Equity Now’s President Rebecca Hart Holder released the following statement after the Trump administration today announced that the Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid are rescinding federal guidance that requires hospitals to perform stabilizing or life-saving abortion care to patients who are pregnant or experiencing pregnancy-loss. This guidance was issued by the Biden Administration in 2022 to clarify hospitals' obligations under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) to perform emergency abortions, even in states where abortion is banned.
Reproductive Equity Now Statement After U.S. House Votes to Undermine Health Care Access, Puts Lives at Risk
Reproductive Equity Now President Rebecca Hart Holder released the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives voted early hours Thursday to “defund” Planned Parenthood:
Connecticut Sun to Receive 2025 Ellen Paradise Fisher Activism in Action Award at Reproductive Equity Now’s Breaking Barriers Gala
The Connecticut Sun is proud to announce that the organization has been named the recipient of the 2025 Ellen Paradise Fisher Activism in Action Award, presented by Reproductive Equity Now. The award will be formally presented at the Breaking Barriers Gala on May 15, 2025, at the InterContinental Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts.
Repro Equity Now Statement After Trump Administration Cuts Millions in Title X Funding for Planned Parenthood Clinics
Today, Rebecca Hart Holder, President of Reproductive Equity Now, released the following statement after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) formally announced that it will be freezing Title X funding for thirteen Planned Parenthood affiliates, citing their refusal to end Diversity, Equity and Inclusion practices. Title X funding provides access to critical preventative care like low-cost/free birth control, cancer screenings, and STI testing and treatment. According to Physicians for Reproductive Health, in 2022, through Title X funds, providers at sexual and reproductive health care clinics across the country were able to serve 2.6 million family planning patients. Title X funds cannot be used for abortion care.
Reproductive Equity Now Statement After Supreme Court Dismisses Mifepristone Case on Standing
“Today’s decision from the Supreme Court allows our movement to breathe a temporary sigh of relief, but we cannot lose sight of the work ahead of us,” said Rebecca Hart Holder, President of Reproductive Equity Now. “While Donald Trump’s far-right Supreme Court dismissed this purely political attack on abortion care, we know another is right around the corner. Anti-abortion activists have made their aim quite clear: they will not stop until abortion is banned in all fifty states. That is what is at stake in the upcoming election.
The Boston Globe | Abortion doulas help patients navigate the fraught landscape of a post-Dobbs world
As of 2020, the majority of counties in Rhode Island, Vermont, and New Hampshire did not have an abortion clinic, according to a report from the Guttmacher Institute, and geography can likewise be a barrier in parts of Massachusetts and Maine. According to Reproductive Equity Now, crisis pregnancy centers, antiabortion facilities that have been accused of posing as reproductive health care clinics, outnumber legitimate providers in New England.