“Our hope is that university administrators will really have the support and tools and resources to implement medication abortion readiness plans and increase access to care for students,” said Taylor St. Germain, communications director for Reproductive Equity Now, an organization that worked with the Department of Public Health to issue guidelines to public universities.

Rebecca Hart Holder, President of Reproductive Equity, said in a statement to 22News, “Students face some of the largest barriers to accessing abortion care in Massachusetts. As more and more states move to restrict or ban access to abortion nationwide, it’s more critical than ever that Massachusetts colleges provide abortion care for students who may or may not call Massachusetts their permanent home.”

Now, the residents of the greater Seacoast, and the whole of District 3, need to turn up the pressure on Councilor Stevens. Another vote to defund our reproductive health clinics would be devastating for the health of our Seacoast communities.

Also last month, Rebecca Hart Holder, president of advocacy group Reproductive Equity Now, sent a letter to the Department of Public Health urging the department’s licensure and certification division to investigate whether another center, Your Options Medical in Revere, is engaging in the deceptive advertising of “immediate” results ultrasounds in its new mobile van on Cape Cod.

“Something I really learned from her was, just because they tell you it’s impossible doesn’t mean it is impossible,” Rebecca Hart Holder, president of Reproductive Equity Now, told me. “It just means you might need more data; you might need better messaging; you might need better polling. You just have to figure out the right tools to make it possible.”

A review of a separate complaint about the Your Options Medical mobile unit is also underway, prompted by an Oct. 17 letter from the Boston-based organization Reproductive Equity Now. The letter, sent to DPH and the Executive Office of Health and Human Services, charges that Your Options Medical may be engaging in “deceptive practices and potentially endorsing out-of-scope diagnoses by registered nurses.”

For Democrats, there are similarly high stakes. In a get-out-the vote email, Reproductive Equity Now President Rebecca Hart Holder highlighted Zlotnik’s past House votes for abortion-access measures — and Durant’s votes against them, GBH News further reported.

“Today’s polling serves as a public mandate for our Commonwealth to go even further in expanding access to abortion and protecting patients traveling to our state—including their digital privacy.”

In an email encouraging Democrats to make campaign calls for Zlotnik, Reproductive Equity Now President Rebecca Hart Holder highlighted his past House votes for abortion-access measures — and Durant's votes against them.