Urgent Policy Recommendations to Protect Reproductive Health Access & Mitigate Harm from Federal Budget Cuts Jul 2025
Meeting The Moment Post-Dobbs: A Review of Proactive Abortion Policies Passed in States & Localities, June 24 – October 1, 2022 Nov 2022
Gaining Ground Series 2022 Midyear Report — Gaining Ground: Proactive Legislation in the States Jul 2022
Gaining Ground Series Gaining Ground Series: Proactive Legislation in the States at Midyear, 2021 Jul 2021
Gaining Ground Series 2020 Year-End Report — Gaining Ground: Proactive Legislation in the States Dec 2020
Gaining Ground Series 2020 Midyear Report — Gaining Ground: Proactive Legislation in the States Jul 2020
Gaining Ground Series 2019 Year-End Report — Gaining Ground: Proactive Legislation in the States Jan 2020
Gaining Ground Series 2019 Midyear Report — Gaining Ground: Proactive Legislation in the States Jul 2019
LARC Toolkit: Increasing Access & Protecting Patient Autonomy A project of the National Institute for Reproductive Health (NIRH) and the National Women’s Health Network (NWHN), Increasing Access to Long-Acting Reversible Contraception & Protecting Patient Autonomy: A Resource For Evaluating LARC Public Policy Initiatives is a toolkit designed to support reproductive health, rights, and justice advocates assess proposed legislation or policy initiatives related to long-acting reversible contraception (LARC). Apr 2019
Gaining Ground Series 2018 Report — Gaining Ground: Proactive Legislation in the States The National Institute for Reproductive Health’s 2018 End of Year Report, Gaining Ground: Proactive Reproductive Health and Rights Legislation in the States analyzes state advocates’ and legislators’ work to advance reproductive health, rights, and justice through proactive policy throughout 2018 – enacting the highest number of proactive bills since NIRH started keeping track. Jan 2019
Gaining Ground Series 2018 Midyear Report — Gaining Ground: Proactive Policy in the States The National Institute for Reproductive Health’s 2018 Midyear Report details the progress states have made at the midway point in the year, after most legislative sessions have adjourned, in introducing, moving, and passing legislation that proactively advances reproductive rights, health, and justice. Jul 2018
NIRH White Paper on Self-Managed Abortion – “When Self-Abortion is a Crime: An Analysis of Massachusetts Law” NIRH’s white paper, “When Self-Abortion is a Crime: Laws that Put Women at Risk: An Analysis of Massachusetts Law,” raises awareness about the harms of criminal bans on self-abortion, with a particular focus on Massachusetts, which is one of a handful of states with criminal laws on the books that explicitly make self-abortion illegal. Apr 2018
Gaining Ground Series 2017 Report — Gaining Ground: Proactive Legislation in the States The National Institute for Reproductive Health’s 2017 End of Year Report, Gaining Ground: Proactive Reproductive Health and Rights Legislation in the States analyzes the ways in which states have counteracted the harmful aggressions of the federal government with a record number of proactive policies to advance reproductive health, rights, and justice. Jan 2018
Gaining Ground Series 2017 Midyear Report — Gaining Ground: Proactive Legislation in the States The National Institute for Reproductive Health’s 2017 Midyear Report analyzes the ways in which states are pushing forward with a proactive and unapologetic approach to reproductive freedom. Jul 2017
Policy Analysis: When Self-Abortion is a Crime – Laws that Put Women at Risk The legal status of abortion has changed throughout American history – from legal to illegal and back to legal again. However, women seeking to end an unintended pregnancy have always done so, whether it is legal or not. Our white paper, “When Self-Abortion is a Crime: Laws that Put Women at Risk,” documents this history in New York and assess whether there is any justification for the state’s criminal abortion ban. Jul 2017
Gaining Ground Series 2016 Year-End Report: Gaining Ground: Proactive Legislation in the States Jan 2017
Gaining Ground Series 2015 Year-End Report — Gaining Ground: Proactive Legislation in the States Jan 2016
Gaining Ground Series 2014 Year-End Report — Gaining Ground: Proactive Legislation in the States Jul 2015
Gaining Ground Series 2014 Year in Review — Building Momentum: Proactive Reproductive Health and Rights Legislation in the States Jan 2015