ACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE Policy Agenda

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We are committed to effecting policy change in the health care and social services systems that serve to broadly improve women’s health, safety, and economic autonomy. Often, health care policy debates, both locally and nationally, fail to take into account the real-life experiences of men, women, and their families. Yet, it is these everyday experiences that illustrate the impact of new policies on access to care and health outcomes. ACCESS encounters the complex realities of our caller partners’ reproductive lives through our Healthline, translates those lived experiences into our priority policy campaigns. With twenty years of experience eliminating obstacles to quality reproductive health care in partnership with low-income women of color, ACCESS is particularly well-positioned to inform policy debates about reproductive health.

The administrative and legislative policy recommendations that we offer in our policy agenda address systemic state and federal issues that directly impact California women seeking all types of health care, including reproductive health services like prenatal and abortion care. Using the stories of our caller-partners to contextualize the issues, we promote solutions that deal with access to the safety net; the number of reproductive health care providers in the state who accept Medi-Cal; contribute to federal efforts to allow public funding for abortion; and, provide a practical reproductive health and justice perspective on health care reform debates in California and nationally.

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