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Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, hormonal contraception became more accessible to many outside of traditional clinical settings through websites or apps that offer contraception via telehealth.
This issue brief, Health Reform: Implications for Women's Access to Coverage and Care, reviews how the Affordable Care Act is expected to affect access to care and affordability of health coverage for women. It also explains the provisions in the health reform law related to preventive screening services, reproductive health, maternity care and women on Medicare. The brief includes national and state-level estimates of the percentage of uninsured women ages 18-64 who are likely to qualify for federal help under the law and a summary of key coverage and benefits provisions in the health reform law that affect women.
In this post, we answer some of the key questions about the new contraceptive coverage policy generally, and more specifically, how it will be applied to religious organizations.
Pregnancy, Birth, and Abortion Rates Among Teens Have Been Steadily Declining in the U.S. Download Source Guttmacher Institute “U.S.
Teen Birth Rates Have Been Declining for All Groups, but Disparities Still Exist Download Source Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Vital Statistics Reports, “ Births: Preliminary Data for 2011” 61(5), Oct 2012…
The Majority of States Restrict Abortion Coverage to the Hyde Amendment Requirements Download Source Guttmacher Institute, State Funding of Abortion Under Medicaid, State Policies in Brief, November 2012…
This April 2010 webcast features a discussion of issues and challenges for the Obama Administration's Global Health Initiative and features three senior-level officials involved in the initiative, as well as outside perspectives of the challenges it faces.
This issue brief dissects the issues raised by the legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that private insurance plans include contraception as part of their coverage of preventive services for women. Over 40 for-profit corporations and over 40 nonprofit corporations have filed lawsuits claiming that the requirement to provide their employees with contraceptives violates their religious rights. On November 26, 2013, the Supreme Court agreed to hear two cases filed by for-profit corporations, Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties, that claim that this requirement violates their religious rights. At the crux of these cases is a question that the Supreme Court has not previously addressed: Do for-profit corporations have religious protections under the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the First Amendment? The brief provides background on how the ACA’s contraceptive requirement works, summarizes some of the legal challenges brought by for-profit and non-profit organizations and discusses the implications of potential rulings by the Supreme Court.
This brief examines the implications of a Supreme Court with a solid conservative majority for two abortion cases which have pending requests for review. If the Court chooses to take these cases, abortion laws and who can legally challenge them could be affected in major ways.
This issue brief describes how publicly-funded family planning providers are adapting in the COVID-19 pandemic and strategies they have implemented to continue providing quality family planning services while in-person visits are limited.
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