© Farzana Hossen
Abortion access in the United States has long been a struggle—especially for communities of color.
In June 2022, abortion access became further restricted and imperiled when the U.S. Supreme Court decided to repeal Roe v. Wade, which had established the constitutional right to abortion. Since then, many states have enacted new legal restrictions, in some cases extreme enough to effectively ban abortion entirely and criminalize providers and pregnant people. While rights vary state by state, people in the U.S. now have less reproductive freedom overall—with Black, Indigenous and people of color facing the greatest barriers to bodily autonomy.
But abortion restrictions are out of step with what people in the United States believe and want. Ipas-commissioned research finds that nine in 10 people in the U.S. oppose total abortion bans, and that only a small but well-organized minority has succeeded in rolling back abortion rights.
But the majority can and is fighting back—and Ipas is part of that fight. We’re taking immediate actions to protect legal abortion access today, and we’re investing in the long-term strategies and movement building needed to ensure abortion rights for the next generation.
Abortion is health care.
We work with diverse partners across the United States to:
- Document the human rights violations caused by state-level abortion bans and hold states accountable
- Raise public awareness that self-managed abortion with pills is safe, effective and a vital option to increase legal abortion access
- Connect our U.S. partners with Ipas’s powerful global network of abortion rights experts and champions to share evidence, strategies and lessons learned for building sustainable, legal abortion access—even in places with the most restrictive laws
- Convene leaders from the reproductive justice movement and other social movements to assess state-level abortion ecosystems and create action plans to protect and advance legal abortion access in those states