Replay available! Center CEO Speaks at 2025 SXSW Conference

Watch the replay of “Reproductive Freedom: Good for Workers, Good for Business,” featuring Nancy Northup, Chelsea Clinton, and other business and policy leaders:

New research from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research shows that access to reproductive health care is playing an important role in employee recruitment and retention. In fact, most workers want reproductive health care access covered by their employers—and many are willing to move across state lines to get that coverage.

This research and more will be discussed at the “Reproductive Freedom: Good for Workers, Good for Business” panel—featuring Center for Reproductive Rights President and CEO Nancy Northup—at the South by Southwest Conference (SXSW) in Austin on March 9 at 11:30 a.m.

The session will discuss the evolving legal landscape, tools for companies to navigate the complex operating environment, and how local leaders are fighting to protect their constituents’ reproductive rights.

More information:

• SXSW Conference, March 6-15: details and registration information.  
• SXSW Panel: “Reproductive Freedom: Good for Workers, Good for Business,” March 9
• IWPR Research Brief: Post-Roe, Employees Want—and Expect—Businesses to Help with Reproductive Health Access

Second Panel Continues Conversation About Businesses and Reproductive Health Care

Rachana Desai Martin, the Center’s Chief Government & External Relations Officer, will join a second panel at the SXSW Conference titled “Protecting Reproductive Freedom: What Leaders and Companies Must Do Now” on March 10 at 4 p.m.

This session will discuss how, in the U.S.’s increasingly complex reproductive health care landscape, corporate coalitions such as the Don’t Ban Equality initiative have mobilized companies to stand together, collectively advocate, and shape the national conversation on safeguarding abortion access.

Please note that registration for the SXSW Conference is required to attend the session.

Speakers:

• Rachana Desai Martin, Chief Government & External Relations Officer, Center for Reproductive Rights
• Dawn Laguens, Chief of Global Strategy And Innovation, Planned Parenthood
• Duff Stewart, Chief Executive Officer, GSD&M

More information:

• SXSW Conference, March 6-15: details and registration information.  
• SXSW Panel: “Protecting Reproductive Freedom: What Leaders and Companies Must Do Now,” March 10