2015 News & Announcements

December 2015
Ibis announces new grant to "Free the Pill" Packard Foundation grant will support the effort to move a birth control pill over the counter December 17, 2015 - Ibis Reproductive Health is thrilled to announce a $12 million grant from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation in support of our work to...
November 2015
In 2013, Ibis was proud to be selected by The David and Lucile Packard Foundation in its first global Quality Innovation Challenge . In this initiative, the Packard Foundation supports innovative ideas to improve quality in sexual and reproductive health and empower women and girls in new ways...
November 2015
This October, Marie Stopes Ghana , Ibis, the University of Ghana School of Public Health , Ghana Health Service , Population Council , National Population Council , and Futures Group/Palladium co-convened a research dissemination meeting in Accra on adolescent sexual and reproductive health in...
October 2015
The amount of time women have to wait before they can get an appointment at an abortion clinic in Texas has increased, according to research performed by the Texas Policy Evaluation Project (TxPEP) , a collaboration of researchers from the University of Texas Population Research Center, the...
September 2015
In partnership with the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition , we are excited to conduct a study that will generate data on the impact of stockouts on women and communities in Uganda. A contraceptive stockout is a time when someone seeking a chosen method of contraception cannot obtain it because...
July 2015
Ibis celebrates the introduction of the Equal Access to Abortion Coverage in Health Insurance (EACH Woman) Act, introduced on July 8 by Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) and backed by more than 60 members of Congress. Ibis is proud to endorse this bill, which would lift funding bans that deny...
June 2015
Ibis Reproductive Health was very pleased to hear that the Iowa state supreme court ruled in favor of women’s access to high quality health care today. Ibis Reproductive Health research shows telemedicine provision of medication abortion is safe and effective, and women have reported that...
June 2015
Ibis Vice President for Research Dan Grossman recently wrote an op-ed for the LA Times on the two new bills that were introduced in the Senate to encourage an over-the-counter birth control pill, including the legislation by Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) and Senator Cory Gardner (R-CO) aimed at...
June 2015
There is no better way to celebrate America's Independence Day than by standing up for reproductive freedom! We are excited to share our Independence Day-themed Free the Pill campaign , the latest effort of Free the Pill and the Oral Contraceptives Over-the-Counter Working Group . Free the Pill is...
May 2015
A recently published paper in the African Journal of Reproductive Health focused on understanding how young women in Soweto, South Africa obtain sexual and reproductive health (SRH) information and services. In the past decade, there has been a growing awareness and response in South Africa to the...
May 2015
Ibis Reproductive Health convenes the Oral Contraceptives (OCs) Over-the-Counter (OTC) Working Group , a coalition of researchers, advocates, and health care providers that is working to move an OC OTC to improve access to safe and highly effective contraception, especially for those who could...
April 2015
Over the past two years, Ibis has worked with the South African Department of Health as an implementation and development partner on various sexual and reproductive health and rights policies. One key area of collaboration was Ibis’s involvement in the Adolescent and Youth Health Policy for...
April 2015
Ibis was pleased to host the twelfth annual Social Scientists’ Research Meeting (SSRM) this spring. Each year, Ibis invites social scientists from diverse disciplines whose research addresses abortion, as well as those interested in abortion-related research, to come together at the SSRM to...
March 2015
New research from Ibis and the University of California, San Francisco found that insurance coverage of a future over-the-counter (OTC) birth control pill would result in more widespread use by women and would be cost effective to health insurance plans. In recent years, there has been growing...
March 2015
We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Later Abortion Initiative (LAI) at Ibis. Access to later abortion is a critical women's reproductive health, rights, and justice issue. Building on previous work by colleagues around the country and in collaboration with other organizations, LAI will...
February 2015
The Michigan-based advocacy organization MI Lead , a nonpartisan coalition focused on improving the lives of women and families in the state, hosted staff from Ibis and the Center for Reproductive Rights to discuss the release of a recent research brief. The Evaluating Priorities Michigan state...
February 2015
In honor of Valentine's Day, we are excited to share the "I heart my pill" campaign, the latest effort of Free the Pill and the Oral Contraceptives Over-the-Counter Working Group . Free the Pill is a website that provides information and updates about the movement to make a birth control pill...
February 2015
We were thrilled to have two Ibis staff members be a part of Take Root , a conference held in Norman, Oklahoma focused on reproductive justice from the perspective of those living in "red" states in the US. Bridgit Burns , Project Manager, presented in a workshop session focused on the Evaluating...
January 2015
In recognition of the 42nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade , we are excited to share powerful images that describe the reality of abortion access for many US women. Although Roe v. Wade legalized abortion more than four decades ago, numerous barriers prevent women from getting the care they need and...