Global Health, Empowerment, and Rights (HER) Act
On January 24, 2025, Donald Trump reimposed his expanded version of the heinous Global Gag Rule, which bans U.S. foreign assistance for global health care providers who even mention the word abortion. As a result, clinics will close. People will be forced to seek unsafe abortion procedures, with sometimes deadly consequences. And communities will be left stranded without access to reliable and comprehensive reproductive health care.
We must end Trump’s Global Gag Rule and ensure that no future president can unilaterally impose the policy again. That’s what the Global HER Act would do. On January 28, 2025, Rep. Lois Frankel (D-FL-22) reintroduced the Global HER Act in the House and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) reintroduced it in the Senate.
Please call on your members of Congress today and urge them to co-sponsor the Global HER Act (H.R.764 and S.280) to permanently repeal the Global Gag Rule!
Contact members of CongressSupport UNFPA Funding Act
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) works diligently to bring reproductive health services to people who are most in need, such as those in crisis and disaster settings like Ukraine and Myanmar. The Trump administration has cruelly ended all US support to UNFPA, withdrawing $377 million in grants for specific projects, many of them life-saving.
The Support UNFPA Funding Act authorizes needed investments in UNFPA’s crucial work to eliminate the unmet need for contraceptives, to end preventable maternal deaths, to end gender based violence, to abolish harmful practices like female genital mutilation and child marriage, and to support humanitarian efforts in areas affected by crises.
On, March 27, 2025, Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA-6) reintroduced the Support UNFPA Funding Act in the House. A companion bill has not been introduced in the Senate.
Please urge your representative to co-sponsor the Support UNFPA Funding Act (H.R.2439) to ensure that this critical agency can rely on U.S. support!
Abortion Is Health Care Everywhere Act
Passed in 1973 and reauthorized every year since, the Helms Amendment prohibits any U.S. foreign aid from being used for safe abortion under any voluntary circumstance. The Abortion Is Health Care Everywhere Act is the first bill to repeal Helms since its introduction over 50 years ago. In a world where 23,000 women die every year from unsafe abortion, Helms is bad health policy and bad foreign policy.
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) reintroduced the Abortion Is Health Care Everywhere Act in their respective houses of Congress on March 22, 2023. Neither bill was raised for a vote.
The Abortion Is Health Care Everywhere Act has not yet been reintroduced in the House or the Senate in the 119th Congress (2025-2026).
Contact members of CongressIncrease International Family Planning Investment
Expanding access to family planning services is one of the most important and effective ways to improve global health, ease poverty, increase opportunity, and preserve resources. And it’s central to ensuring human rights.
Unfortunately, Trump ended all international family planning assistance at the beginning of his administration.
Even before this terrible blow to USAID and UNFPA by the current White House, US funding had been inadequate for decades—undermining our key global priorities. The funding high point occurred in 2010 and has not only failed to keep pace with inflation, but has fallen by more than $100 million. In fact, if our funding level in 2010 had simply risen with inflation, we would be providing nearly $1 billion today. And that still would fall short of the need.
Few investments bring the kind of return in terms of improved maternal and child health, expanded economic development, increased stability, and resource conservation that family planning does.
Tell your members of Congress to support providing $1.74 billion for international family planning programs!
Contact members of CongressRight to Contraception Act
The Right to Contraception Act enshrines a federal right for all Americans to obtain and use the contraceptives that best meet their needs. The bill prohibits any requirement that impedes the provision of contraceptives or contraception-related information, as well as health care providers or facilities that administer contraception and related information. It further bars any limitation that hinders access to contraceptives or contraception-related information. If enacted, this bill will apply to both the federal and state governments. Neither the federal government nor any state government would be able to enforce any law that conflicts with this act after the date of its enactment.
Despite the enormous benefits that access to contraceptives has brought to people, especially women and girls, across the United States and around the world, extremist politicians and activist organizations are prepping an assault on access.
On February 5, 2025, Rep. Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX-7) reintroduced the Right to Contraception Act in the House and Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) reintroduced it in the Senate.
Tell your members of Congress to support access to contraception for all by co-sponsoring the Right to Contraception Act (S.422 / H.R.999)!
Contact members of CongressWomen's Health Protection Act (WHPA)
On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to abortion in the United States when it overturned Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
That’s why Congress needs to pass the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA), more urgently than ever before. WHPA will codify the federal right to abortion, preventing state governments from imposing onerous and unnecessary restrictions on a safe, common, and often necessary medical procedure.
Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) reintroduced WHPA in the Senate (S.701) on March 8, 2023, and Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA-28) reintroduced it in the House (H.R.12) on March 30, 2023. Neither bill was raised for a vote.
The Women’s Health Protection Act has not yet been reintroduced in the House or the Senate in the 119th Congress (2025-2026).