Young Mainers: Know Your Rights!

Two Minors' Rights to Health Care in Maine pamphlets laid on table. One is open and the other is closed.

Abortion, Birth Control, HIV/AIDS, Sex Ed

Pop quiz: Carmen is 14 years old, lives in Maine, and wants to go on birth control, but doesn’t want to ask their parents. Can Carmen get a birth control method without involving their parents? Answer: Yes! Maine law empowers teens to take control of their sexual and reproductive health. Minors in Maine are allowed […]

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MFP Program Director on The Abortion Diary Podcast

MFP Program Director on The Abortion Diary Podcast

Abortion

I love being part of an organization where we are doing amazing work and really making a difference in people’s lives. Leah Coplon, MFP Program Director The Abortion Diary, founded and directed by Dr. Melissa Madera, empowers people to share “their full, unmediated abortion experiences in a safe and supportive environment.” It is the only […]

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Celebrating MFP’s Dedicated Nurse Practitioners

Belfast Family Planning NP Julie Jenkins accepts NAF award

Abortion, Birth Control, Health Care, Reproductive Justice, Reproductive Rights, Title X

It’s National Nurses Week! That means it’s time to celebrate the compassionate, dedicated, and expert nurse practitioners who work at Maine Family Planning’s 18 clinics statewide. Our NPs are the backbone of our health care organization. They provide birth control, wellness exams, STD testing and treatment, cancer screenings, HIV prophylaxis, and some aspects of abortion […]

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Ending Maine’s Outdated Abortion Ban Is Just Common Sense

Maine State House

Abortion, Health Care

On Wednesday, May 1, the legislature’s Committee On Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services (HCIFS) will hold a hearing on LD 1261, a bill that would end Maine’s outdated law preventing qualified and trained nurse practitioners and other advanced practice clinicians (APCs) from providing abortion care. Maine Family Planning supports this bill, along with our […]

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Maine Moves Closer to Equitable Abortion Access

Paper applications for health insurance coverage, arrayed on a surface with a pen

Abortion, Get Involved, Health Care, Medicaid, Reproductive Justice, Reproductive Rights

LD 820, An Act To Prevent Discrimination in Public and Private Insurance Coverage for Pregnant Women in Maine, was passed out of the legislature’s Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services Committee this week. That’s great news! Thank you to everyone who showed up at the state house for the hearing or contacted the committee about this […]

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On Collins, Kavanaugh, and Abortion Access

On Collins, Kavanaugh, and Abortion Access

Abortion, Get Involved, Health Care, Reproductive Rights

Maine Senator Susan Collins (R) met Tuesday with Donald Trump’s supremely unpopular Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Kavanaugh’s record and judicial philosophy, which Maine Family Planning helped parse for this Suit Up Maine report released last week, indicate extreme hostility toward reproductive rights in general and abortion access in particular. This is troubling enough, […]

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Statewide Defend Title X Coalition Declares: No Gag Rule!

Statewide Defend Title X Coalition Declares: No Gag Rule!

Abortion, Birth Control, Health Care, Reproductive Justice, Reproductive Rights, Title X, Uncategorized

Today, a statewide coalition representing tens of thousands of patients, providers, and advocates voiced its collective opposition to the Trump administration’s proposed Domestic Gag Rule, which would gut the Title X federal family planning program, making it harder for low-income Mainers to access affordable birth control and other reproductive health services. The proposed rule would: […]

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