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The National Institute for Reproductive Health’s 2018 End of Year Report, Gaining Ground: Proactive Reproductive Health and Rights Legislation in the States analyzes state advocates’ and legislators’ work to advance reproductive health, rights, and justice through proactive policy throughout 2018  – enacting the highest number of proactive bills since NIRH started keeping track.

The report tracks proactive legislation across six categories: expanding access to abortion care; improving access to contraception; increasing access to pregnancy care; promoting comprehensive sexuality education for all young people; supporting parents and families; and prohibiting discrimination based on reproductive decisions or health status.

• Protecting and Expanding Abortion Access: Massachusetts decriminalized abortion, repealing the state’s century-old criminal abortion law; New York made adv Reproductive health bill philippines!