Nearly 80 Organizations Unveil Blueprint for Sexual & Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice

SisterLove

July 15, 2019

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4 min

Today, a broad and diverse coalition of nearly 80 organizations released a proactive policy agenda for a fully supportive Congress and Administration to advance sexual and reproductive health in the U.S. and around the world. The Blueprint is significant and unprecedented because it is the first time the wide range of reproductive health, justice, and rights organizations have come together to develop a detailed and intersectional policy agenda.

“The Blueprint for Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice” is centered on five principles:

Ensure sexual and reproductive health care is accessible to all people.
Ensure discriminatory barriers in health care are eliminated.
Ensure research and innovation advance sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice now and in the future.
Ensure health, rights, justice and wellness for all communities.
Ensure judges and executive officials advance sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice.

The Blueprint is a vision for the future that includes forward thinking ideas to transform sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice policy domestically and globally, as well as basic and fundamental measures to correct the backtracking that has taken place in recent years. Guided by the five key principles, the Blueprint lays out many critical policy goals, including:

Coverage of and access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care services and qualified providers at no or low cost and without exception for all people, including immigrants, incarcerated individuals, and young people under the age of 18.
Full access to abortion that is best for an individual and their circumstances and comprehensive insurance coverage for care.
Comprehensive pregnancy and maternal health care strategies that prioritize the health care needs of pregnant and birthing individuals.
Strong non-discrimination protections for patients, including protections that ensure providers’ religious or personal beliefs do not dictate patient care.
Health care system transformation that prioritizes sexual and reproductive health care, including research and development in the field of reproductive health and scientific integrity and transparency in sexual and reproductive health care.
Foreign policy that prioritizes sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Robust response to the global HIV/AIDS crisis.
Economic opportunity, freedom from violence, and healthy and safe environments for all individuals, families, and communities.
Selection and confirmation of administrative and judicial nominees who will advance sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice.

The Blueprint stems from the palpable urgency, in light of increasingly hostile attacks on reproductive autonomy and rights, for a proactive and transformative agenda. In many parts of the United States and around the world, restrictive laws and policies have made it virtually impossible to access the information, services, and providers people need to care for their health and wellbeing. To download the Blueprint, visit reproblueprint.org.

The nearly 80 organizations who have endorsed the Blueprint are: