EQUIP Act Empowers Women to Make Informed Reproductive Care Decisions, Improves Health Outcomes
The Enhancing Questions to Understand Intentions for Pregnancy (EQUIP) Act supports evidence-based pregnancy intention screening initiatives that facilitate important, patient-centered conversations between women and their health providers. These initiatives prepare health care providers to routinely ask female patients of child-bearing age about their goals regarding pregnancy, and subsequently provide appropriate pre-conception or contraceptive care and counsel.
"Families and communities are healthier when women are able to have healthy, planned pregnancies," said Bonamici. "Studies show that empowering women and their health care providers to have a discussion about pregnancy intentions reduces unintended pregnancies, promotes maternal health, and improves birth outcomes. I'm proud to support bringing a successful pregnancy intention screening initiative from
"We applaud
"The EQUIP Act takes an important step towards ensuring that every woman--no matter who she is or where she lives--has the power to decide if, when, and under what circumstances to get pregnant, and most importantly, to have the power to act upon those intentions," said
Bonamici modeled this legislation on One Key Question", a pregnancy intention screening initiative developed by the
You can read a summary of the EQUIP Act here https://bonamici.house.gov/sites/bonamici.house.gov/files/documents/171121EQUIPsummary.pdf.
Bonamici is a steadfast advocate for improving health care and outcomes for women. Previously, she has introduced comprehensive legislation to provide affordable, accessible reproductive health care to women of all economic backgrounds. Bonamici strongly supports access to contraception and opposes efforts by the
Read this original document at: https://bonamici.house.gov/media/press-releases/bonamici-legislation-improves-women-s-reproductive-health-care
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