U.S. Federal Administrative Advocacy
The Center for Reproductive Rights holds federal agencies accountable in upholding and advancing reproductive rights and health.
Summary
Agency officials across the federal government implement and enforce laws, make funding decisions, collect and analyze data, and create rules affecting everyday lives across the country.
The Center for Reproductive Rights works to ensure that federal agencies protect, respect, and fulfill the human right to health care by holding agencies accountable and promoting policy changes that advance access to reproductive health care—and now that the Supreme Court has eliminated federal protections for abortion rights, holding agencies accountable is more important than ever.
The Center advocates for and against proposed rules and regulations, educates key stakeholders on the impact of federal policies and actions, makes policy recommendations, uncovers key documents and records, works to hold the Executive Branch accountable, and challenges unlawful actions and regulations in the courts.
The Center continues to work with the administration to promote progressive policies that advance reproductive health care in the U.S. and around the world.
Key Facts
1,000,000
Women and girls worldwide will be denied access to contraception—each week—under President Trump’s funding freeze.
1,000
Title X clinics—which provide reproductive health care to low-income people—were defunded by the first Trump Administration.
21,500,000
Women of reproductive age living in U.S. states where abortion is illegal.
Work Highlights
Explore highlights of the Center’s federal administrative advocacy.
The new administration censors information, nominates extremists, imposes global restrictions, and more.
New tool mobilizing against the Trump administration’s anti-reproductive rights appointments to crucial federal agencies.
How do federal agencies influence U.S. reproductive health and rights policies?
More Highlights
Access to Medication Abortion
In 2023, the FDA ended the in-person requirement and allowed retail and online pharmacies to directly dispense abortion medication to patients.
What does SCOTUS’s “Chevron Deference” ruling mean for the future of federal reproductive rights?
The U.S. Supreme Court overruled a decades-long legal test that gave deference to administrative actions. Find out about the implications of this ruling on reproductive rights going forward.
With a Trump Presidency, Grave Threats to Reproductive Freedoms Expected
Anti-rights agenda risks progress made on gender equality, reproductive rights, and access to health care.
Biden Administration’s HHS: Advancing Family Planning Services
Three moves by HHS agencies in 2024 improved access to health care and contraception.
