Press Releases
2024
- 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
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