Your Reproductive Rights Cheat Sheet:
- You still have the right to reproductive emergency care.
- You still have the right to birth control coverage.
- You still have the right to access medication without discrimination.
- You still have the right to coverage for preventive health services.
- All state abortion bans still contain exceptions to prevent the death of a pregnant person.
Your right to emergency care:
- All Medicare-participating emergency departments must provide medical screening.
- If diagnosed with an emergency condition all hospitals must provide treatment until you condition is stabilized, or arrange or transfer.
- An emergency condition involves systems that could seriously jeopardize health without immediate care. For pregnant patients this can include ectopic pregnancy, pregancy loss or preeclampsia.
- In some instances, the treatment necessary to stablize a pregnant woman’s emergency medical condition may be an abortion
- These federal rights take priority over any state laws or mandates that directly conflict them.
Your right to birth control coverage:
The Affordable Care Act(ACA) requires most employe-based private health insurance plans to cover family planning counseling and certain prescribed birth control. This includes but not limited to: birth control pills, IUD’s, Plan B, diaphragms and sterilization procedures.
You right to medication:
Pharmacies receiving federal financial assistance are prohibited from discriminating based on race, color, national original, sex, age or disability in the health programs or services.
Your right to access abortion:
- As a result of SCOTUS’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, access to abortion and abortion medication will depend on the state you live in.
- Mifepristone, when used with misoprostol has been FDA-approved since 2000 for safely effectively ending early pregnancies. It can be dispensed by certified prescribers and pharmacies via mail for prescription from certified dcotors as well as in-person clinics, medical offices, and hosptials.
- If you’re covered through Medicard: federal funds can only cover abortion in circumstances of rape, incest or if the patient’s life is in danger.
- IF you’re covered through your employer, a plan from the Affordable Care Act marketplace or else in the private market: abortion coverage will vary by state, employer and insurer.
Your right to coverage of preventive health services:
- Under the ACA, most employer & health insurance plants must cover these women’s preventive health services, at no cost.
- An annual well visit to screen your health including a pap smear, breast exam & regualr check-up
- Breast & cervical cancer screenings
- Prenatal care
- Breastfeeding servcies & supplies
- Interpersonal violence screenings & counseling
- HIV screening & STI counseling
If you don’t have health insurance coverage
- Title X Family planning clinics provide a broad range of family planning services and preventive health services
- HEalth centers are community-based orgs that deliber high-quality health care services regardless of your ability to pay
- The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program provides medical-care, medications and essential support to people with HIV.
(cheat sheet via @theskimm)