Women’s Reproductive Health Agenda

1. Full, Fair and Safe: Dedicated Funding, Equal Access and Safe Admittance to Reproductive Health Services. Given the attacks on women’s reproductive rights that we have seen on the federal level and through changes to the Supreme Court, we need NYC to ensure that regardless of what’s happening in Congress or the Court, there will always be dedicated funding, equal access, and safe admittance to reproductive health services.

2. Justice = Rights: Providing Reproductive Rights by Addressing Barriers to Reproductive Justice — Poverty, Homelessness, Education/Racial Disparities. Ensuring reproductive health rights is about more than abortion access. We must address the root causes of reproductive rights inequities, such as poverty, homelessness and housing affordability, and educational gaps and racial disparities to ensure that ANYONE that can give birth has equal and unfettered access to reproductive health services.

3. Choice For All: Every New Yorker Should Have Equal, Affordable and Safe Access to Reproductive Health Services Regardless of Immigration Status. Every New Yorker, regardless of immigration status should have equal, affordable and safe access to reproductive health services. NYC should be a sanctuary for reproductive rights for all New Yorkers, including undocumented immigrants.

4. Science Beats Stigmas: Expand Sex Education Programs to Better Inform Adolescents on the Science and Services. NYC should expand sex education programs — through school and community center programs — related to reproductive health services and access, contraception, STD and HIV/AIDS prevention, and personal wellness. Greater availability of and resources for scientifically based education programs will help remove the stigmas that still serve as an obstacle to adolescents understanding their reproductive rights and available health services.

5. Addressing Racial & LGBTQ+ Disparities: Address Racial and Sexual Orientation/Identity Disparities in Access for Communities of Color and LGBTQ New Yorkers. Through an investment in community outreach, education and public awareness programs, NYC must ensure equal rights for communities of color and all LGBTQ+ people that have historically suffered from disparities in access to reproductive health services and gender expression discrimination.