Policy and Advocacy

The Policy and Advocacy Department addresses the reproductive health and rights of Latinas on the national and state level.  NLIRH’s policy advocacy is realized through legislative action, public education, and strategic partnerships. 

We have three primary programmatic areas: 

Abortion Access for Latinas

• Repealing the Hyde Amendment and increasing public funding for abortion access
• Fighting abortion restrictions

Addressing Reproductive Health Disparities in Underserved Communities         

• Improving Emergency Contraception access        
• Public awareness on the role of community health clinics in reproductive health care
• Educating Latinas on Cervical Cancer awareness and prevention through our "Cuídate. Ármate. Edúcate." Latinas for Cervical Cancer Prevention Campaign
• Advocating for comprehensive sex and sexuality education for Latina youth

Immigrant Women’s Rights

• Comprehensive immigration reform as a matter of reproductive justice
• Leading a coalition on immigrant women’s rights

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Community Mobilization

The Community Mobilization Department seeks to build a reproductive justice movement that places the needs of Latinas, their families and their communities at the center. We recognize that Latinas better advocate on behalf of their communities.

Our main strategies focus on:

• Cultivating a group of well-informed, motivated and active base of Latinas(os) through our leadership and advocacy trainings;
• Connecting Latinas(os) to a larger national Latina movement of advocacy networks;
• Allowing our activists to inform the work we do by supporting our national agenda and mobilizing for social change.

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