Who’s Teaching Puberty in Maine?

Who's Teaching Puberty in Maine?

Sex Ed

Puberty is an incredible time of growth, change, and challenges — and helping young people navigate this unfamiliar landscape sets them up to enter adolescence with confidence and knowledge. Most elementary schools in Maine do not have designated health teachers, so the responsibility of teaching puberty — if it happens at all — often falls […]

Read More

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, […]

Read More

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: […]

Read More

How Fake Clinics Use Google — and More — to Mislead Women

Plane pulling banner reading, "Searching for abortion care? Google lies"

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

The Key to Healthy Relationships: Comprehensive Sex Ed

Sex Ed

The Maine Family Planning team is gearing up for our 13th annual Comprehensive Sexuality Education Conference, taking place on Friday, April 6.  With a timely keynote from renowned expert Dr. Elizabeth Schroeder; inspiring workshops covering a broad range of topics; and ample opportunities for networking and learning from peers, the sex ed conference really is a […]

Read More