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  • Flawed Report Aims to Undercut Established Research on Abortion Pill Safety, Plus How a Federal Initiative to Study Autism May Overemphasize Environmental Toxins — The Monitor

    Feature

    This volume highlights how a report criticized for flawed methodology is influencing renewed efforts to restrict access to mifepristone; a federal plan to study the causes of autism that could be contributing to stigma by over-emphasizing environmental toxins; and the resurgence of false claims about fetal tissue in vaccines.

  • Women’s Experiences with Intimate Partner Violence

    Issue Brief

    This analysis provides data on women experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV) and reports on a range of health topics affecting women who experienced IPV in the past five years, including their health care needs and use, barriers, and mental health.

  • Criminal Penalties for Physicians in State Abortion Bans

    Issue Brief

    This brief examines the legal considerations for physicians providing abortion care, including criminal and professional penalties, as well as the potential for medical malpractice lawsuits for delayed care to patients due to bans and prosecution for violation of abortion bans across state lines.

  • UNFPA Funding and Kemp-Kasten: An Explainer

    Issue Brief

    This fact sheet provides an overview of the history of the Kemp-Kasten amendment, which states that no U.S. funds may be made available to “any organization or program which, as determined by the president of the United States, supports or participates in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization,” and examines its current application. Since enacted in 1985, Kemp-Kasten has often been used to withhold funding from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

  • The Mexico City Policy: An Explainer

    Issue Brief

    Explore an overview of the Mexico City Policy, which, when in effect, requires foreign NGOs to certify that they will not “perform or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning” using funds from any source (including non-U.S. funds) as a condition for receiving U.S. government global health assistance.

  • What’s Next for State Abortion Ballot Initiatives?

    Policy Watch

    This brief examines what the November election and prior efforts to enshrine abortion rights at the ballot box mean for those states and what’s next, including the future of abortion restrictions in states where voters enshrined abortion rights where abortion was banned or restricted, as well as those that do not have abortion bans.