- Coalition to Expand Contraceptive Access (CECA): "As a Black woman living in Washington DC during these turbulent times, I feel pain in both my heart and head. As a historian and public health professional whose now 20-year-old dissertation focused on what I then called “The African American Reproductive Freedom Movement”, I had hoped that the historical injustices faced by Black communities in America would remain in the past. Yet racism remains an ongoing public health crisis." Read the full statement here.
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Essential Access Health: "We cannot and will not truly address the health disparities that persist today – including those related to disproportionate unintended pregnancy, infant and maternal mortality, and STD rates – until we name and address the root cause – racism. Black and brown communities face deeply rooted barriers that impact their well-being and ability to achieve optimal health outcomes. These disparities have been highlighted, and exacerbated by the COVID-19 public health and economic crisis." Read the full statement here.
- Bridgercare: "Each of us needs to do our part to ensure that our country begins to live up to its promise of freedom and justice for all. Especially as a reproductive healthcare clinic, we must confront our own history. The legacy of family planning carries a painful record of racism and trauma. We are determined to never let that be a part of our future." Read the full statement here.
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Missouri Family Health Council (MFHC): "Missouri Family Health Council, Inc. condemns the police violence against Black children and adults, as well as the systemic oppression that exists both in and outside the healthcare system." Read the full statement here.
- Provide: "Supporting the #BlackLivesMatter movement means ensuring Black Americans have access to affordable, quality reproductive care, along with access to healthcare education and medical referrals. Provide is committed to ensuring that everyone has reproductive agency and bodily autonomy. Our work is rooted in the knowledge that intersecting factors such as race and class affect marginalized communities differently." Read the full statement here.
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Boulder Valley Women's Health Center: "As a health care institution and a team of people deeply committed to the fight for equity, justice, and freedom over one’s body, we remain in solidarity with the Black community today and every day. We will do our part to ensure that this agonizing cycle of violence does not continue. We cannot remain silent." Read the full statement here.
- Montana Family Planning Program: "Racial inequalities in our country are far-ranging and insidious, and our work at the Montana Family Planning Program is not immune. The United States has a disturbing history of inflicting coercive practices upon people of color in sexual and reproductive healthcare. Remnants of those practices persist today, as do rampant racial disparities in access to care and birth outcomes." Read the full statement here (PNG).
- Baltimore for Healthy Babies: “Every Baltimore baby—no matter who she is, where he lives, how much money her family makes, or the color of his skin—should have the opportunity to thrive and grow into a healthy child.” Our BHB equity statement is in stark contrast to our present reality where that child lives in the midst of continual, racial oppression that jeopardizes life itself. In the midst of a pandemic that is isolating us from one another and taking a terrible toll, we feel outraged, sickened, saddened, exhausted, and a myriad of other emotions over the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Armaud Arbery, and many others." Read here the full statement (PNG) to its core implementation team and here its public race equity principles (PDF) in the Baltimore Healthy Babies strategic plan.