Grant Program Reproductive Health

To increase access to emergency contraception for victims of sexual assault.

To increase access to reproductive health services among adolescents, focusing on an assessment of the needs of service providers in four states that lack laws giving minors powers of consent in obtaining contraceptives.

To increase access to emergency contraception by educating health professionals, reproductive health advocates, the public and the media about EC policies.

To promote comprehensive sexuality education, with an emphasis on a science-based framework, policymaker education, and state and parent organizing.

To reduce the incidence of unintended pregnancy by giving advocates information to support state and federal family planning programs for low-income women and teens and reaching media representatives with this information.

To improve the quality and accessibility of early abortion services, particularly manual vacuum aspiration.

To increase educational and training opportunities on abortion and reproductive health for medical students and residents, and to reform medical school curricula and training to include abortion and reproductive health.

To protect and expand access to family planning and reproductive health care for low-income and uninsured women through the federally funded Title X program, the nation’s family planning program.

To expand insurance coverage of contraceptives using litigation, research, policy analysis, public education, coalition building and media relations.

To make a contribution to the Charlotte Ellertson Memorial Fund.