Hadassah, The Women’s Zionist Organization of America, Inc., reaffirms and expands its July 2024 policy statement “Safeguarding the Whole Spectrum of Reproductive Health Care.”
Policies across the US continue to endanger the reproductive health of individuals able to become pregnant. These laws are restricting access to evidence-based reproductive health services and stabilizing emergency care, including abortion care, putting the health and lives of patients at grave and unnecessary risk. Despite federal law that requires hospitals to treat and stabilize patients in medical distress, pregnant patients are being turned away or negligently treated in emergency care settings.
Hadassah is alarmed by these developments and recognizes that these restrictions and bans are putting women and girls’ lives, their health, and their future fertility in danger. As a global humanitarian organization, Hadassah opposes any attempts — through administrative regulations, state and federal laws, public referendums, or court actions — to restrict the right to reproductive health care.
Hadassah reaffirms our commitment to nationwide access to the full continuum of reproductive care, including but not limited to access to stabilizing emergency care that incorporates abortion care, and actively supports efforts to pass reproductive rights protections at the national, state and local levels of government.
Life-saving and health-preserving emergency care — including treatment for miscarriages, ectopic pregnancies and other complications — are fundamental rights for every patient across the country, regardless of their reproductive status.
Hadassah strongly urges policymakers at the local, state and federal levels to:
- Ensure that all patients across the country — especially women, girls and other individuals able to become pregnant — have access to health care across the full continuum of reproductive care, including emergency care.
- Pass laws that protect providers of reproductive health services and allies who facilitate necessary or emergency care to pregnant people.
- Protect patients’ rights to privacy and bodily autonomy when seeking medical care, including reproductive care.