2025 Federal Policy & Advocacy Priorities
Maternal Health and Pregnancy Care
- Pass the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act
- Pass the CARE for Moms Act
- Increase funding for doulas and midwifery care in federal health care programs
- Guarantee comprehensive holistic maternity and newborn care for at least one year postpartum
- Pass legislation to ban the shackling of pregnant incarcerated people
- Pass legislation requiring coverage for doulas and midwifery care in insurance programs and increasing funding for doulas and midwifery care federal health care programs
Abortion Access
- Pass legislation ending all federal bans on abortion care coverage
- Pass the Equal Access to Abortion Coverage in Health Insurance Act (EACH)
- Pass the Abortion Justice Act
- Pass legislation removing all cost-sharing for abortion services
- Pass legislation allowing trained and licensed advanced practice medical professionals to provide early abortion care
- Pass legislation prohibiting the abuse of “religious freedom” to restrict and/or ban access to abortion care
Protect Medicaid
- Require states to provide comprehensive, holistic maternity care through Medicaid for a minimum of one year postpartum and to provide 12-month continuous coverage for newborns via Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
- Pass legislation expanding Medicaid’s reimbursement for contraceptive counseling
- Pass legislation expanding access to Medicaid home and community-based services (HCBS) for older Americans and people with disabilities
- Pass legislation strengthening the direct care workforce while ensuring cultural competency in training and care
What Can You Do?
- Read more about In Our Own Voice’s federal advocacy priorities for 2024 (PDF)
- Use our resources to advocate locally
- Meet with your members of Congress or their staff
- Attend a public forum or town hall and ask a question. Call the district offices of your senators and representative to request a list of events near you
- Submit an op-ed to your local paper
- Use Facebook or Twitter to engage your members of Congress
- Send an action alert message to your members of Congress or call your members of Congress
- Contact our government affairs staff for advocacy strategies and useful resources