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House Passes Cruel Reconciliation Bill
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 3, 2025 CONTACT: Carina Pacheco, [email protected] Statement from NAF President & CEO Brittany Fonteno on how the passing of the reconciliation bill will impact reproductive health access: What is abundantly clear to abortion providers and advocates is that the Trump administration and its allies have used the reconciliation bill as yet another tactic for achieving…
Read MoreWisconsin’s Pre-Civil War Ban Invalidated
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 2, 2025 CONTACT: Carina Pacheco, [email protected] Statement from Brittany Fonteno, President & CEO of the National Abortion Federation, on Wisconsin Supreme Court’s decision to strike down 1849 law: I am heartened by the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s decision affirming that abortion is legal in the state and rejecting the use of an archaic 19th-century statute to…
Read MoreSupreme Court Rejects Planned Parenthood’s Challenge to South Carolina Restriction
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 26, 2025 CONTACT: Carina Pacheco, [email protected] Statement from NAF President & CEO Brittany Fonteno on Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic: Low-income and uninsured people in South Carolina already face disproportionate barriers to accessing health care as a result of abortion bans and systemic racism. These are the people who will most acutely feel the…
Read MoreSupreme Court Upholds State Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Young People
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 18, 2025 CONTACT: Carina Pacheco, [email protected] This morning, the Supreme Court delivered an opinion in U.S. v. Skrmetti—a landmark case about whether families with transgender kids can access essential gender-affirming health care, or if politicians can overrule families’ decisions about medical care for their loved ones. In a 6-3 split, the Court upheld a Tennessee law…
Read MoreMinnesota Shooting Suspect had Target List of Abortion Providers
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 14, 2025 CONTACT: Carina Pacheco, [email protected] Statement from NAF Chief Program Officer Melissa Fowler: “We are beyond devastated by the murders of Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband and the violent attacks on Minnesota State Senator John Hoffman and his wife. It is clear that these were politically motivated attacks—police found the suspect’s…
Read MoreNAF COO Veronica Jones Named a Winner of Chief’s The New Era of Leadership Awards
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 11, 2025 CONTACT: Carina Pacheco, [email protected] NAF COO Veronica Jones Named a Winner of Chief’s The New Era of Leadership Awards Now in their second year, The New Era of Leadership Awards recognize and celebrate executive women shaping the future of business June 11, 2025—Today, Chief, the most powerful network of senior executive women, revealed the winners…
Read MoreHouse Advances Bill to Repeal FACE Act
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 10, 2025 CONTACT: Carina Pacheco, [email protected] The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act is a federal law enacted in 1994 in response to escalating violence targeting abortion providers, including large-scale blockades and the murder of NAF member Dr. David Gunn in 1993. The legislation imposes federal penalties for using force, threat of force,…
Read MoreTrump Rescinds Guidance on Emergency Abortion Care
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 3, 2025 CONTACT: Carina Pacheco, [email protected] Today, the Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services rescinded guidance on the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), a decades-old federal law requiring hospitals to provide stabilizing care for all patients in emergencies, including for women and people who are…
Read MoreThree Years Post-Dobbs, Abortion Providers Experience High Levels of Violence & Disruption
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 23, 2025 CONTACT: Carina Pacheco, [email protected] The National Abortion Federation released their 2023/2024 Violence & Disruption Report showing the barrage of harassment, intimidation, and violent attacks abortion providers experience daily NATIONAL—Today, the National Abortion Federation (NAF) released its Violence & Disruption report with data from 2023 and 2024. The report shows there has been…
Read MoreTrump Administration’s Cuts to Title X Funding
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 1, 2025 CONTACT: [email protected] Statement from NAF President & CEO Brittany Fonteno on Trump Administration’s cuts to Title X funding: The Trump administration’s unconscionable move to freeze millions in federal family planning grants distributed through the Title X program is just the latest attempt to attack Planned Parenthood and other providers while denying people…
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