Press Releases

2025

• 6.18.25 – California’s Final State Budget Must Protect Reproductive Equity
• 6.16.25 – LA County Board of Supervisors Must Act Now to Safeguard Decades of Progress in STI and HIV Prevention
• 6.4.25 – California Legislature Must Act Now to Safeguard Reproductive Health Access
• 5.15.25 – May Revise Proposal Disproportionately Cuts Reproductive Health Access + Fails to Live Up to California’s Promise
• 5.12.25 – Essential Access Health Responds to STI and HIV Prevention Funding Cuts in Los Angeles County
• 5.2.25 – Essential Access Health Condemns President’s FY 2026 Budget Proposal to Eliminate Title X and Dismantle Public Health Programs
• 4.24.25 – Essential Access Health Statement on NFPRHA and ACLU Lawsuit Challenging HHS’ Unlawful Withholding of Title X Family Planning Grants
• 4.22.25 – Hawai'i Makes Historic $6 Million Investment in Family Planning Services
• 4.1.25 – Essential Access Health Statement on the Withholding of Title X Funding
• 1.31.25 – Essential Access Health Co-CEO Amy Moy Appointed by Governor Newsom to Protect Access to Health Care Act Stakeholder Advisory Committee Established by Proposition 35
• 1.22.25 – Anniversary of Fallen Roe v. Wade is a Stark Reminder of the Work Ahead to Protect Access to Comprehensive Sexual + Reproductive Health Care

2024

• 12.3.24 – California Bill AB 50 Introduced to Create More Equitable Contraceptive Access in California
• 11.6.24 – Federal Election Outcomes Will Further Endanger Reproductive Health Access While Voters Support Reproductive Freedom through Ballot Measures
• 10.21.24 – Essential Access Health Applauds Biden-Harris Administration for Proposed Expansions to Birth Control Access
• 10.8.24 – Essential Access Health Joins Reproductive Health Organizations in Support of Prop 35
• 9.26.24 – Governor Newsom Fails California Youth Again by Blocking Bill to Make Free Condoms Available Amid Rising STI Rates Among Youth
• 9.05.24 – Essential Access Health Launches TeenSource Action: Empowering California Youth to Drive Systemic Change
• 8.12.24 – Essential Access Health Announces Dr. Porsia Curry as Inaugural Vice President of Culture + People
• 7.30.24 – Essential Access Health Announces Shannon Olivieri Hovis as Vice President of Public Affairs
• 5.23.24 – California Senate Passes Youth Health + Equity Bill
• 1.22.24 – Youth Health Bill Introduced to Address Rising STI Rates and Require Free Condoms in All CA Public High Schools
• 1.11.24 – Robust Contraceptive Equity Law Goes into Effect

2023

• 9.13.23 – California Legislature Passes Youth Health Equity + Safety (YHES) Act
• 7.14.23 – Statement Regarding Proposed Elimination of Title X Funding in House Labor-H Appropriations Bill
• 6.6.23 – $25 Million Awarded to Support Access to Abortion Care Across California
• 5.31.23 – California Senate Passes Youth Health Equity + Safety (YHES) Act
• 4.20.23 – As Attacks on Abortion Access Continue, State-Funded Grant Programs Launched to Help Make California’s Promise of Leading as a “Reproductive Freedom State” a Reality
• 2.17.23 – HHS Files Notice of Appeal in Title X Parental Consent Case
• 2.14.23 – Youth Health Equity + Safety (YHES) Act Introduced to Require Free Condoms in CA High Schools + Expand Access to the HPV Vaccine
• 1.20.23 - Critical State Funding to Safeguard + Expand Abortion Access Coming Soon to LA County
• 1.11.23 - UC + CSU Campus Health Centers Ready to Expand Access to Medication Abortion
• 1.04.23 - Essential Access Health Statement Regarding FDA Rule Change on Mifepristone REMS

2022

• 9.09.22 – Statement Regarding Election Results
• 9.27.22 – Governor Newsom Signs Contraceptive Equity Bill Into Law
• 9.19.22 – Essential Access Health Announces New Executive Leadership
• 8.31.22 – California Future of Abortion Council Statement on Abortion Bill Package Successfully Passing California State Legislature
• 8.31.22 – Contraceptive Equity Bill to Modernize Birth Control Access Heads to Governor’s Desk
• 6.24.22 – Essential Access Health Statement in Response to Devastating SCOTUS Decision in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health
• 5.26.22 – California Senate Passes Bill to Address California’s STI Epidemic and Expand Equitable Pathway to STI Care
• 3.30.22 – Federal Funding Awarded to Expand Access to Sexual + Reproductive Health Services Across Hawaiʻi
• 3.24.22 – Senate Health Advances Comprehensive Bill to Address California’s STI Epidemic
• 1.21.22 – Title X Federal Funding Awarded to Essential Access Health to Immediately Restore and Expand Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Services Across Hawai'i

2021

• 12.10.21 – Statement on Supreme Court Decision to Allow Extreme Abortion Ban to Remain in Effect
• 10.4.21 – Essential Access Health Applauds Release of Biden Administration’s Final Title X Rule
• 10.4.21 – Governor Newsom Signs Comprehensive Bill to Tackle CA’s STI Crisis
• 9.13.21 – Comprehensive Bill to Address CA’s STI Crisis Heads to Governor’s Desk
• 7.6.21 – Comprehensive Bill to Address CA’s STI Crisis Passes Assembly Business + Professions in 16-2 Vote
• 7.6.21 – Contraceptive Equity Act Clears Assembly Health Committee
• 6.23.21 – Assembly Health Advances Comprehensive Bill to Address California’s STI Epidemic
• 6.23.21 – California One Step Closer to Expanded Contraceptive Coverage for Millions Statewide
• 6.2.21 – Senate Passes Comprehensive Bill to Address California’s STI Epidemic
• 6.1.21 – Reproductive Rights Advocates Celebrate Senate’s Passage of California’s Contraceptive Equity Act of 2021
• 5.27.21 – Health Advocate Leaders Respond to Governor Newsom’s Revised Budget Proposal
• 5.17.21 – U.S. Supreme Court Dismissal of Title X Cases is a Victory for Patients Nationwide
• 4.29.21 – Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice Advocates Celebrate the Advancement of the Contraceptive Equity Act of 2021 (SB 523) in the State Senate
• 4.28.21 – Assemblymember Aguiar-Curry Bill to Lock in Nation-Leading Telehealth Services Flies Out of First Committee
• 4.19.21 – Bill Advances to Expand STI Coverage + Care in California
• 4.14.21 – Biden Administration Releases Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for Title X Federal Family Planning Program
• 4.13.21 – FDA Removes Onerous Restrictions on Medication Abortion During the Pandemic
• 4.8.21 – STD Coverage + Care Act Passes Senate Health Committee
• 4.6.21 – Leyva Bill Expanding Contraceptive Equity Passes Senate Labor Committee
• 3.18.21 – Biden Administration Announces Pending Release of New Rules for Title X Federal Family Planning Program
• 3.18.21 – Essential Access Applauds Confirmation of Xavier Becerra as Secretary of Health and Human Services
• 2.22.21 – U.S. Supreme Court Grants Review of Challenge to Trump-era Title X Regulations
• 2.18.21 – Contraceptive Equity Act of 2021 Introduced to 
Expand Birth Control Access in California
• 2.5.21 – Dr. Richard Pan Introduces Comprehensive Measure to Curb Historically High STD Rates
• 1.28.21– Presidential Memorandum on Title X Falls Short
• 1.11.21 – Telehealth Bill Introduced to Improve Health Care Access

2020

• 12.1.20 – Condom Access Project Expands 
Free Home Mailer Program to Contra Costa County to Address High Rates of STDs Among County Youth
• 10.1.20 – Essential Access Health Petitions U.S. Supreme Court to Review Trump Administration’s Harmful Title X Restrictions
• 9.16.2020 – Forced Sterilizations are Horrific + Must be Investigated and Halted
• 7.8.20 – Supreme Court Allows Bosses to Deny Birth Control Coverage for Their Employees
• 6.3.2020 – A Message from Essential Access Health: #BlackLivesMatter
• 4.9.20 – Essential Access Health Requests Full Court Reconsideration of 9th Circuit Panel Title X Decision
• 2.24.20 – 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Releases Devastating Decision for Millions of Title X Patients Nationwide
• 2.20.20 – Essential Access Health Returns to Court to Permanently Halt Implementation of Trump’s Title X Regulations
• 2.24.20 – Victory in Maryland Title X Court Case