Guided by LWVUS policy positions, we:

• Create opportunities to provide factual reproductive healthcare information to the community.
  
• Partner with organizations to support efforts to protect and expand access to reproductive choices in our area.
• Support reproductive rights organizations and abortion funds across the state, such as Planned Parenthood.
• Speak up at the General Assembly.

Summary of Threats to Contraception

LWV-Wake has compiled a list of multiple efforts that threaten access to, and the legality of, contraceptives. For more information with links to sources, please click the links below.

• Redefining pregnancy and personhood
• Redefining contraception as abortion
• Free speech denied
• Defunding approaches (see link to Funding Threats below)
• Lack of insurance coverage
• Creating confusion about emergency contraception (the morning after pill)
• Lack of access to medical reproductive health providers
• Significant investment in Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPC)
• Additional legal approaches, including the Comstock Act

Explanation of Threats to Contraceptives

Funding Threats to Reproductive Care