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CPAL Launches Mobile Clinic to Enhance Family Planning

May 24, 2024

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It’s a reproductive-justice strategy that puts women in the driver’s seat of their own lives and uses the consumer’s lens, versus the insurance companies or government agencies, to meet the need and desire for family planning.

Trust Her is the reproductive and maternal health initiative of the Child Poverty Action Lab, whose goal is to reduce child poverty by half by 2040. The data behind this work is shocking:

— 1.8 million Texas women of childbearing age cannot afford their preferred (and long-term) method of birth control. For example, without good insurance, an IUD can cost $1,300.

— A woman often waits seven months or more to obtain her method of choice. Appointments may not be available for many weeks and more waits can follow, depending on a clinic’s contraception inventory.

— Among low-income patients, 50% will not return for a second visit due to the compounded burden of additional time off from work, transportation costs and childcare.

When access to contraceptives is expanded, women graduate high school and college at higher rates, have greater earning power, and contribute to economic mobility for their children and families.



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