Advocacy
As a feminist health care center, Mabel Wadsworth Center focuses our advocacy goals on efforts that work towards gender and health equity. Using a reproductive justice framework, we strive to be anti-racist and anti-oppression in our advocacy and activism.
Mabel Wadsworth Center opposes any attempt to restrict or block access to abortion care and gender-affirming healthcare while supporting legislation that moves us closer to a world where all of us can access the care we need in the communities we live in by providers we choose and trust.
Coalition and Campaigns:
The Maine Paid Leave Coalition is a group of partners who work together to create comprehensive system change related to paid family and medical leave, and to implement a system that works for all Mainers.
National Legislation:
EACH Act would reverse the Hyde Amendment and related abortion coverage restrictions so that each of us, however much we make, can get affordable, safe abortion care when we need it. Join us! Help lift bans that deny abortion coverage and get one step close to a future where our families thrive and where we make our own decisions about pregnancy and parenting.
The Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA) is federal legislation that will protect the right to access abortion care throughout the United States. Equal access to abortion care—everywhere—is essential for social and economic equality, reproductive autonomy, and the right to determine our own lives. Take action.
Come back soon! This page will be updated as the legislative session progresses.