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Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services (HCIFS) will hold a hearing on LD 1261, a bill that would end Maine’s outdated law preventing qualified and trained nurse practitioners and other advanced practice clinicians (APCs) from providing abortion care.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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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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One of the topics MFP’s Prevention Program covers in its comprehensive sexuality education curriculum is healthy relationships. Patients also confidentially discuss their relationships with MFP clinicians during regular wellness visits. How do you know if you’re in a healthy relationship? Ask yourself some questions: Does my partner respect my choices? Does my partner support my […]
Read MoreAbortion, 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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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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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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Abortion, Birth Control, Get Involved, Health Care, Reproductive Rights
At the 2018 Birds & The Bees Spring Soiree, coming up on Saturday, Maine Family Planning will proudly bestow the David and Sherry Huber Award to our friends at Grandmothers for Reproductive Rights (GRR!) — a homegrown reproductive rights organization just like us, working to preserve a legacy of choice, access, and Mainers’ right to make […]
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#PledgeAProvider, 40 Days, Abortion, Health Care
Beginning February 14 and lasting 40 days through March 25, anti-abortion picketers are gathered every day outside the Maine Family Planning clinic in Augusta. Bearing deceptive signs and posters, their goal is to shame and intimidate patients who come to us seeking all types of health care, including abortion. Unsurprisingly, this noxious demonstration takes its toll […]
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Abortion, Fake Clinics, Health Care
2018 could mark a turning point in the fight against so-called “crisis pregnancy centers” (CPCs), those fake clinics that lie to women in order to deter them from getting an abortion. CPCs have been in the news lately, and we’ll be hearing a lot more about them in the coming months—especially with the Supreme Court set to take a closer look […]
Read MoreRed alert! Senator Susan Collins is caving and she needs to hear from YOU—today and every day until the Senate votes on the morally vacant tax bill. There are myriad ways this cruel legislation would hurt low-income and middle-class folks—all in the name of giving tax breaks to corporations and the wealthy—but we are particularly concerned by […]
Read MoreAll of our locations remain open for sexual and reproductive health care. Three clinics (Houlton, Presque Isle, and Ellsworth) will end their primary care services on October 31st due to federal funding cuts, but those clinics remain open.
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