Essential Access Health

Members of our Essential Access Health team gathered with this brilliant and fierce group of #repro health rights and justice baddies for the first in-person meeting of the California Coalition for Reproductive Freedom @ccrf since the COVID public health emergency. We are so lucky to have such a diverse and robust group of colleagues to work and make good trouble with 💫🙌

Great news - #SB954 cleared Assembly Health with bipartisan support, 13-2! We’re thankful to work with Caroline Menjivar and partners BWWAction, sbh4ca, URGE: Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity California, student leaders at Voters of Tomorrow California, and GENupUS to champion this measure. Next stop: we’re headed to Assembly Appropriations! 🙌🎉

#BREAKING: Supreme Court Rules Idaho Hospitals Must Provide Life-Saving Abortion Care, But Declines to Rule on Merits of #EMTALA Case The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) is a nearly four-decade-federal law guaranteeing all patients the right to access life-saving emergency medical care, including an abortion. While EMTALA protections remain in place for now, the ruling keeps the door open for patients to be denied emergency services in the future. We must ensure that medical professionals can provide emergency and life-saving care nationwide, and that pregnant people can access it - when and where they need it. #BansOffOurBodies

NEW: HHS-Labor Approps subcommittee released an irresponsible proposal to eliminate the Title X program. Title X serves as a lifeline for affordable STI care + birth control for millions of people with low-incomes nationwide. In a post-Dobbs landscape, we must protect and ensure access to birth control and family planning. We call on Congress to preserve access to essential health care so that everyone, regardless of their zip code or economic status, can get equitable, affordable, and patient-centered sexual and reproductive health services. #SaveTitleX

Today marks two years since the Supreme Court overturned #Roe. The impact of the decision continues to be devastating and widespread with over 21 states enacting abortion bans and severe restrictions – threatening the health and well-being of millions, and disproportionately harming Black, Indigenous and People of Color, LGBTQIA+ folks, young people, immigrants, and people living in rural areas. And now, they are coming for #birthcontrol. Eight states have introduced bills to restrict access. We were proud to join Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, and partners TEACH, Reproductive Freedom for All, ACLU of Northern California, and Planned Parenthood Northern California #FutureofAbortionCouncil to commemorate this stark anniversary, and call for the Right to Contraception Act to be brought up for a vote in the House. #BansOffOurBodies #HandsOffMyBC

#Pride season may be coming to an end 🌈 but we stand in proud solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community ALL 365 days of the year. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

This week, Essential Access was proud to stand with Mayor London Breed and other Bay Area champions in support of the Reproductive Freedom Act, a measure put forth by Mayor Breed. If approved by San Francisco voters this November, the ballot measure will strengthen city and county policies related to reproductive health access, justice, and freedom. “As states across the country continue to enact callous and cruel abortion bans and restrictions, in California and San Francisco, we have an opportunity and responsibility, to use every tool possible to protect and expand access to essential health services. This measure builds on San Francisco’s long history of taking bold action in support of equity and justice and provides a model for other jurisdictions to adopt and adapt. We urge San Franciscans to support reproductive health and rights and thank Mayor Breed for her leadership,” said Amy Moy, Co-CEO, Essential Access Health. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/g3bPaYr9

Essential Access Health believes full autonomy over our sexuality and gender identity is a fundamental human right. Having the resources and freedom to make personal decisions about our sexual and reproductive health is an essential and foundational component of individual, family, and community health. This #Pride season is a great time to explore #HIV prevention options so we can #StopHIVTogether. Learn how to talk about #HIV and challenge stigma: https://lnkd.in/ena9J--K

Thank you to our presenters, participants, sponsors, and exhibitors for making Sexual Health Update #SHU2024 a success! Together we centered reproductive equity, quality, and access, shared best practices, and had robust and important conversations about how we can and must (re)shape the future and narrative around sexual and reproductive health care. Essential Access Health’s Learning Exchange offers capacity training, technical assistance, and other capacity building resources to health care providers year-round. Learn more at essentialaccess.org.

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously blocked the challenge to revoke the FDA’s approval of mifepristone and asserted that the anti-abortion plaintiffs lacked standing to sue. This case was outrageous and baseless from the start. Mifepristone has a proven track record of being safe and effective for over twenty years and medication abortion accounted for nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. last year. This isn’t the end. Policymakers on the state and federal levels need to push for protective policies and ensure that everyone can get the essential and time-sensitive health care they need, when they need it, without barriers. https://lnkd.in/daD546wj