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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We’re Gearing Up to Fight Trump’s Gag Rule & Stop Title X Sabotage

#NOGAGRULE

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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We’re Still Fighting: Historic Medicaid Win & More

We’re Still Fighting: Historic Medicaid Win & More

Get Involved, Health Care, Medicaid

Today, we celebrate Maine’s historic vote to expand Medicaid (MaineCare). The margin of victory (59 to 41 percent, as of this writing) and geographic distribution of votes (supportive communities stretched from towns bordering Canada all the way to southern Maine) clearly demonstrate that Mainers believe access to health care shouldn’t depend on where you live or how […]

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