The Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) and the Center on the Economics of Reproductive Health (CERH) are hosting an online panel on the Costs of Reproductive Health Restrictions: An economic case for ending harmful state policies, on May 19, 2021, at noon EST.
States continue to pass increasingly extreme restrictions to abortion access at an accelerated rate. In the last week of April 2021 alone, 28 state abortion restrictions were enacted. This panel will introduce IWPR’s new digital tool to, which will, for the first time, monetize the economic costs of these restrictive abortion policies at the state level. This new tool will provide state-level advocates new ways to evaluate reproductive health policies and engage allies on this critical issue. This project was supported by the Tara Health Foundation.
Panelists Include:
-
Moderated by Janet Burns, Independent Journalist (Forbes, Gizmodo); author of The Endless Costs of Maligning Abortion
-
Dar'shun Kendrick, Georgia State Representative to House District 93
-
Jim Doyle, President, Business Forward
-
Diana Greene Foster, PhD, Professor, Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences and Director of Research, Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF); author of The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, A Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having – or Being Denied – an Abortion
-
C. Nicole Mason, PhD, President and CEO, Institute for Women’s Policy Research
Following the noon panel, we will host a short series of conversations starting at 1:30 p.m. to discuss the critical moment we are in: an opportunity to shape the post-COVID “she-cession” recovery and demand action at the intersections of gender and racial equity and reproductive and economic justice.
Moderated Conversation between Alexis McGill Johnson, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, and Christine Clark, Program Officer at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Panel – Advancing Public Understanding and Awareness: Access to Reproductive Health Care and Women’s Long-term Economic Security and Wellbeing Moderated by Galina Espinoza, President and Editor in Chief of Rewire News Group
Tune in as we mark the launch of IWPR’s new digital tool and amplify the cross-sector efforts to ensure access to reproductive health services and protect women’s economic security and well-being.
Reporters/editors/producers please register with Liz Rose at [email protected]
The public, allies and stakeholders please, register here.
