Reproductive Health - Research and Data from KFF

Amid the Coronavirus Crisis, President Trump and Democratic Nominee Joe Biden Offer Widely Different Views on Health Care

Aug 20, 2020

News Release

President Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden hold widely divergent views on health issues, with the president’s record and response to the coronavirus pandemic likely to play a central role in November’s elections. A new KFF side-by-side comparison examines President Trump’s record and former Vice President Biden’s positions across a wide range of key health issues, including the response to the pandemic, the Affordable Care Act marketplace, Medicaid, Medicare, drug prices, reproductive health, HIV, mental…

Quantifying PEPFAR’s Role for Women and Girls: Analysis of Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting Indicator Data, 2016-2019

Jul 8, 2020

Feature

Women and girls represent more than half of all people living with HIV worldwide, and HIV is the leading cause of death among women aged 15-49. This analysis sought to quantify PEPFAR’s role for women and girls in key program areas, analyzing data over time as well as by country, to better understand the extent of its reach.

Abortion Back at the Supreme Court: June Medical Services LLC v. Russo

Jun 29, 2020

Issue Brief

This issue brief explains the legal and factual issues in dispute and the reviews the potential implications of different rulings in the case of June Medical Services v. Russo, which could have significant implications for women’s access to abortion and could eliminate the right of abortion providers to bring legal challenges to state and federal laws and policies.

Abortion Access in Louisiana if SCOTUS Upholds Hospital Admitting Privileges Law

Jun 24, 2020

Feature

This graphic shows that access to abortion will be increasingly difficult for people living in Louisiana if SCOTUS upholds the state's hospital admitting privileges law.

KFF Brief Outlines the Potential Impacts of Delaying Reproductive Health Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Jun 24, 2020

News Release

Several reproductive health care services have been considered "elective" and postponed during the pandemic. While much of the care deemed "non-essential" isn't life-threatening, delaying care for too long can result in negative health outcomes.

Potential Impacts of Delaying “Non-Essential” Reproductive Health Care

Jun 24, 2020

Issue Brief

This brief analyzes how states, health systems and providers have been faced with deciding what health care is “essential” verses “elective” during the COVID-19 crisis, and what the possible consequences are to delays in "non-essential" reproductive health care.

New Analysis Reveals Gaps in Abortion Coverage for Employees with Employer-Sponsored Plans

May 12, 2020

News Release

New analysis of KFF’s 2019 Employer Benefits Survey finds that 10% of workers covered by employer-sponsored health insurance are employed at a firm that has asked their insurer or third party administrator to exclude abortion coverage from their health plan. Employer-sponsored coverage is the primary source of health benefits in the U.S., covering 153 million Americans. Four percent of covered workers are employed at firms that exclude coverage of abortion under any circumstance and 6%…

Exclusion of Abortion Coverage from Employer-Sponsored Health Plans

May 12, 2020

Issue Brief

This issue brief presents data from the 2019 KFF Employer Health Benefits Survey on the share of covered workers who are employed by firms that have asked their insurer or third party administrator to exclude coverage for abortion from their health plan.

How Publicly-Funded Family Planning Providers are Adapting in the COVID-19 Pandemic

May 5, 2020

Issue Brief

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.

Round 3: Legal Challenges to Contraceptive Coverage at SCOTUS

May 4, 2020

Issue Brief

This brief explains how the new regulations issued by the Trump Administration would change the contraceptive coverage requirement for employers and affect women’s coverage, the legal positions for challenging and defending these regulations, the potential rulings, and the broader ramifications.

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