Reproductive Justice and Health Equity
To support women’s health and reproductive freedom, we focus on understanding the economic impacts of health access restrictions, our national maternal health crisis, and the racial disparities blocking health care access for people of color.
From Roe to EOs, This Week’s Anniversaries Underscore What’s at Stake for Women’s Economic Security and Gender Equity
From a landmark abortion access court case to the Trump administration's week-one efforts to erode critical rights and protections, this week marks multiple anniversaries related to women’s health and economic well-being. These dates provide a crucial reminder of what’s at stake and why it is [...]
Threats to Women’s Reproductive Freedom and Maternal Health
This policy brief focuses on the OBBB’s impacts on women’s reproductive justice and health equity, specifically on the issues outlined in IWPR’s Promoting Access to Abortion and Maternal Health policy briefs. More than three years after the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade, [...]
Data in Danger: The Disappearing Infrastructure of Maternal Health Research
This brief is the sixth and final in IWPR’s series Birthing While Black: The Urgent Fight for Maternal Health Reform. It reviews the historical and current mechanisms for collecting and disseminating maternal health data, describes the flaws and complexities that have emerged in those [...]
When Care Fails, Generations Suffer: The Ripple Effect of the Black Maternal Health Crisis
The ongoing crisis of Black maternal mortality is not only a personal tragedy but also a preventable loss with profound, lasting effects on children, families, and entire communities. This brief builds on others in this series by shedding light on the broad and long-term [...]
