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March 2013

Ibis, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and University of Texas at Austin’s research cited in a bill to eliminate Texas’s 24-hour abortion waiting period

March 6, 2013 – Over the past two years, Texas has enacted legislation that may drastically affect women’s ability to access reproductive health care, including requiring women to see a doctor at least 24 hours before an abortion for an ultrasound. Ibis began evaluating the impact of...

March 2013

Ibis founder Charlotte Ellertson named one of 50 most influential women in health

March 21, 2013 – Charlotte Ellertson is one of the women whose key contributions to health have been recognized in the Huffington Post story 50 Women Who Shaped America's Health . Charlotte Ellertson (March 2, 1966 – March 21, 2004) founded Ibis in 2002; she was passionate about...

January 2013

Ibis and 72 other national, state, and local organizations write letter to President Obama urging omission of restrictions on coverage and funding for abortion services in 2014 federal budget

January 3, 2013 – All women should have access to reproductive health services, including abortion, but many women in the US face difficulties obtaining care. The US federal budget has historically banned abortion coverage for people utilizing publicly funded health insurance making it...

November 2012

Ibis is celebrating its 10th anniversary!

Join us on November 29 at the Harvard Faculty Club in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Like us on Facebook . Follow us on Twitter . Take part in our online celebration! Welcome us to Facebook and follow #10factsfor10years on Twitter as we share Ibis's research highlights from the past decade. Stay tuned...

November 2012

Ibis releases two briefs on the sexual and reproductive health of women in the US military

November 5, 2012 – In 2010 Ibis embarked on a body of work focused on the reproductive health needs and experiences of women in the US military. Servicewomen have higher rates of unintended pregnancy compared to their civilian counterparts, and federal policy prohibiting access to and public...

November 2012

Ibis applauds the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) for giving full support to move oral contraceptives over the counter

November 20, 2012 – Today ACOG released a Committee Opinion giving full support for over-the-counter oral contraceptives. The announcement will also be published in the December issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology. ACOG states that making OCs available OTC is safe and that women support OTC...

September 2012

University of Texas and Ibis research on family planning budget cuts in Texas published in the <em>New England Journal of Medicine</em>

September 27, 2012 – Texas has enacted the most extreme restrictions on reproductive health services of any state to date, slashing funding for family planning by two-thirds and threatening the survival of the state's Medicaid waiver program. The number of funded family planning organizations...

July 2012

Ibis celebrates the Supreme Court's health care reform decision to improve women's health and lives

July 2, 2012 – Ibis joins our colleagues in celebrating the Supreme Court’s decision upholding the majority of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Several important provisions of the law addressing women’s health correct historic injustices in the private health insurance system and...

February 2012

Comprehensive new study finds extensive harm in conflict-affected regions including widespread injury from unsafe birthing and abortion

February 6, 2012 – A new report released today by Ibis Reproductive Health and the Global Health Access Program (GHAP) documents a widespread public health emergency in populations affected by the decades-old conflict in eastern Burma. Its consequences include maternal mortality rates that...

February 2012

Comprehensive new study finds extensive harm in conflict-affected regions including widespread injury from unsafe birthing and abortion in Burma

December 2011

Ibis Reproductive Health surprised, disappointed by Secretary Sebelius’s overruling of FDA Plan B One-Step decision

December 7, 2011 – Ibis Reproductive Health is surprised and extremely disappointed that Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius stepped in and overruled the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) decision to make Plan B One-Step available over the counter...

December 2011

A declaration in support of a global campaign for safe abortion access

December 29, 2011 – The need to integrate safe abortion care within family planning programs and comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights has been a recurring theme in the 2011 International Conference on Family Planning.

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