The Helms Amendment Hurts Millions Worldwide
December 2024
The 1973 Helms Amendment to the State and Foreign Operations Appropriations bill states that “no foreign assistance funds may be used to pay for the performance of abortion as a method of family planning or to motivate or coerce any person to practice abortions.” The Helms Amendment is often interpreted by implementing agencies as a total ban on U.S. funding for abortion care. The Helms Amendment has led to a myriad of poor outcomes—most notably, the restriction of safe, affordable, and time-sensitive abortion care in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Project 2025: How the Conservative Agenda Threatens
Global Gender Equality and Reproductive Rights
October 2024
Project 2025, a proposed policy agenda developed by the right-leaning think tank Heritage Foundation, aims to solidify conservative principles across U.S. domestic and foreign policy. Based on the premise that the United States’ return from the “brink of disaster” rests on a shift toward conservative leadership, this 900-page playbook details measures to tear down U.S. government institutions and permanently rebuild them in the image of conservative ideology.
Sexual and Reproductive Health in Emergencies:
Promising Practices to Address the Crisis within a Crisis Infographic
April, 2024
Find the two-page infographic for the previous report, Sexual and Reproductive Health in Emergencies: Promising Practices to Address the Crisis Within a Crisis below.
Sexual and
Reproductive Health
in Emergencies:
Promising Practices
to Address the Crisis
within a Crisis
April 2024
Conflicts, disasters, climate change, and health emergencies are causing unprecedented levels of humanitarian need around the world. Women and girls are uniquely impacted – on top of violence, displacement, and the loss of livelihoods and social safety nets, they often face disruptions in their access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services and a heightened risk of gender-based violence (GBV). Humanitarian actors often do not view SRH and GBV as life-threatening issues and consequently do not prioritize them in aid programs, leaving millions of women and girls without vital services and undermining their human rights.
Missing Pieces: Gaps in Abortion Care Create a Human Rights Crisis
March 2024
In the two years since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which protected the constitutional right to abortion, Americans have dealt with a sexual and reproductive health landscape that is a complex puzzle, featuring fractured sex education, gender-affirming care, and family planning and abortion services. In the report card’s twelve-year history, the U.S. overall grade has dropped from a C- to an F, and the number of failing states has skyrocketed—from nine in 2012 to 25 this year.
Post-Dobbs, the U.S.
Is Out of Step With
Liberalizing Abortion
Laws Around the World
October 2023
On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court upended nearly 50 years of precedent that ended the constitutional right to an abortion. Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned Roe v. Wade. With the overturning of Roe, the U.S. centers itself among countries that are de-prioritizing gender equity, increasing stigmatization and criminalization of healthcare, and preventing the realization of bodily autonomy.
Reproductive Health and Rights: A Tale of Two Americas
March 2022
rePROs Fight Back has released the 50-state report card on reproductive health and rights. This year with the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, which protected the right to abortion, it is more apparent than ever that there is a tale of two Americas: one in which people can exercise their reproductive rights, and another in which they cannot. In the eleven years of the report card, the U.S. overall grade has dropped from a C- to an F, and the number of failing states has grown dramatically - from nine the first year to 26 this year.