CECA is a convener of committed partners working to ensure access to contraception as part of a broader vision to achieve sexual and reproductive health equity for the U.S.
Contraception’s special issue on contraceptive access efforts is live!
Jointly released by CECA, Contraception journal, Elsevier, and a Guest Editorial Team, this special issue features original research articles and commentaries on contraceptive access issues across the U.S. The special issue demonstrates the diversity of current approaches, describes their impact, offers lessons learned, and highlights actions stakeholders at different levels can take to advance access.
Explore our findings and recommendations
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Federal Process Recommendations
Support efforts to leverage federal administrative and scientific processes to help people—and the systems that serve them—mitigate barriers and achieve universal, equitable access to quality contraception.
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Policy-Ready Research Roadmap
Help reshape the contraceptive access research and policy landscapes—by reconsidering the frameworks that guide us, the research questions we ask, and how we design, conduct, measure, interpret, and share research and related findings.
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Contraceptive Care Workforce
Help advance our collective vision of a diverse and robust workforce that is empowered to provide person-centered care to all and supported by equitable policies, programs, and systems committed to both worker and patient wellbeing.
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Post-Roe Contraceptive Access
Use our findings to anchor and inform discussions on how access to contraception may shift in a post-Roe environment, and which strategies may help preserve or advance contraceptive equity moving forward.
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Federal Sterilization Consent Policies
Support efforts to inform policymakers, healthcare providers, advocates, researchers, and others about the current context and the need for reform, and to institute changes that will better protect autonomy and increase access to care.
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Statewide Contraceptive Access Initiatives
Use our findings to help change how people think about and prioritize statewide contraceptive access, remove structural barriers, and direct policy and practice—with a particular focus on sexual and reproductive health equity.