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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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Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services (HCIFS) will hold a hearing on LD 1261, a bill that would end Maine’s outdated law preventing qualified and trained nurse practitioners and other advanced practice clinicians (APCs) from providing abortion care.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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More 40 Days, Abortion, Reproductive Justice, Reproductive Rights, Title X
For 40 days in March and April, anti-abortion protesters were outside Maine Family Planning’s clinic in Augusta, peddling lies and propaganda. During this time, our patients and providers were forced daily to drive by gruesome, misleading signs, just to get to work or medical appointments. The picketers, while small in number, seemed emboldened this year. […]
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More 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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More Abortion, Get Involved, Health Care, Medicaid, Reproductive Justice, Reproductive Rights
At Maine Family Planning, we believe your access to abortion care should not depend on how much money you make, where you live or who provides your health insurance. Your decisions about pregnancy are yours to make — not politicians or insurance companies. That’s why we stand with our allies in supporting LD 820, An […]
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More 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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More 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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More Abortion, Fake Clinics, Reproductive Justice
Today, the US Supreme Court dealt a serious setback to women and families who deserve medically accurate and unbiased information related to pregnancy and family planning. (This was one of two disgraceful decisions issued today by the Court, and Trump-appointed Justice Neil Gorsuch provided the deciding vote in both of them. Elections matter, folks!) Maine […]
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More Abortion, Fake Clinics
Imagine you just found out you’re pregnant and you may want an abortion. You need accurate, timely, trustworthy information about your options. Where would you turn? Most people would head straight to Google on their computer or smartphone, and search something like, “pregnancy help” or “abortion near me.” Beware: The results you get may not […]
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More Abortion, Birth Control, Get Involved, Reproductive Justice, Reproductive Rights, Title X
For close to 50 years, Maine Family Planning has been the sole Title X grantee for the state of Maine, administering a bedrock federal program enacted under President Richard Nixon to ensure everyone has access to quality family planning services, regardless of how much money they make. At our 18 clinics statewide, and working with […]
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