2020 News & Announcements

December 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic, the global uprising for racial justice, and political battles around the world underscore the deep structural inequities and injustices that prevent people from exercising their human rights and accessing the care they need. Ibis’s research and partnerships are focused...
November 2020
We join our partners, communities, and people around the world in celebrating President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, and this historic moment in US history with the election of the first woman, the first Black person, and the first South Asian person to that office. We...
October 2020
We are delighted to announce that Claire Mawisa, a South African media personality and a Director at Luminosity Lab , has joined Ibis’s Board of Directors as a member at large. Claire is an investigative journalist at Carte Blanche , one of South Africa’s flagship magazine and actuality...
September 2020
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Today, Kelly Blanchard, President of Ibis Reproductive Health, released the statement below following a whistleblower complaint of an alarming number of hysterectomies without consent in an ICE facility. We are outraged to hear the reports from Nurse Dawn Wooten, the...
September 2020
As researchers and advocates for sexual and reproductive equity and justice, we grieve the devastating loss of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Justice Ginsburg was a trailblazer, champion, legal titan, reproductive rights advocate extraordinaire, and overall force. In the highest court...
July 2020
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Today, Kelly Blanchard, President of Ibis Reproductive Health, released the statement below in response to the Supreme Court's decision on birth control coverage. “Today’s decision is a devastating loss and flies in the face of what we know to be true based on...
July 2020
While last week’s Supreme Court decision struck down a Louisiana abortion law, hundreds of restrictive abortion laws remain on the books—a new online tool seeks to hold state lawmakers accountable for promoting women’s, children’s health. 07.09.2020 - (PRESS RELEASE) Today,...
June 2020
Ibis Reproductive Health stands in solidarity with our partners, communities, colleagues, families, and loved ones to condemn racism, and particularly racist violence committed by the police and others against Black people. We mourn the loss of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade and so many...
June 2020
June 29, 2020 – With today’s decision, the Supreme Court has affirmed what we've long known, and what research from Ibis Reproductive Health and our colleagues helped codify into law four years ago: it is unconstitutional for states to impose medically unnecessary “admitting...
February 2020
In a just world, we would all have the resources we need—including information, services, supportive policies, and power—to make the best choices for ourselves, our families, and our communities, to choose whether and when to have children, and to raise those children with dignity. Yet...