Guttmacher’s Destiny Lopez testifies at US Senate on post-Dobbs abortion access
Our acting co-CEO Destiny Lopez offered powerful testimony before the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on June 4, 2024, on the state of abortion access since the Dobbs decision.
Guttmacher’s Vice President for International Research, Onikepe Owolabi, joined Foreign Policy magazine’s Her Power event to discuss strategies to maximize family planning investments, ensuring women with unmet need can access essential contraceptive services.
Polis used Guttmacher’s latest research to highlight the consequences of the Trump administration’s plan to destroy nearly $10 million in contraceptives, calling on policymakers to ensure these essential supplies reach women and couples in low- and middle-income countries who rely on them to safely time and space pregnancies.
Experts from Guttmacher joined representatives from SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change, the National Black Justice Coalition and PEN America to explore cross-movement opportunities to protect and advance sexual and reproductive freedom.
Maddow-Zimet’s testimony leveraged Guttmacher’s estimates of the number of people who traveled out of state for abortion care in 2023, calling for policies that support people’s right to and ability to cross state lines in the wake of bans and restrictions.
Lopez’s testimony used Guttmacher’s latest research to highlight the shifting landscape of abortion access, calling on policymakers to champion a bold vision of abortion care that goes beyond what Roe promised.
