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National Abortion Federation Joins Lawsuit to Block Trump-Vance Administration’s $1.776 Billion Slush Fund
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:May 22, 2026Contact: [email protected] Lawsuit Challenges Taxpayer-Funded Payout Scheme Alexandria, Va. — In the most comprehensive case of its kind, the National Abortion Federation (NAF) is joining a broad coalition of organizations and individuals harmed by the Trump-Vance administration in challenging the $1.776 billion so-called “Anti-Weaponization Fund,” which the U.S. Department of Justice…
Read MoreAccess to Mifepristone via Telehealth Continues For Now
Statement from Brittany Fonteno, President and CEO of The National Abortion Federation, on the Supreme Court’s decision to maintain access to mifepristone via telehealth nationwide while litigation proceeds: “The Supreme Court’s decision today is critical to ensuring continued access to mifepristone through telehealth and maintaining an important and popular pathway to care for patients, especially…
Read MoreNAF Responds as Supreme Court Restores Temporary Nationwide Access to Mifepristone via Telehealth
Statement from Brittany Fonteno, President and CEO of The National Abortion Federation, on the Supreme Court’s decision to temporarily restore access to mifepristone via telehealth: “The National Abortion Federation is encouraged that the Supreme Court has temporarily restored nationwide access to mifepristone by mail, pausing the Fifth Circuit’s sweeping and dangerous restrictions. This decision provides…
Read MoreNAF Condemns Court Decision Reinstating In-Person Requirement for Abortion Pill
Statement from Brittany Fonteno, President and CEO of The National Abortion Federation, on the Fifth Circuit’s decision in Louisiana v. FDA: “The National Abortion Federation strongly condemns the Fifth Circuit’s decision to reinstate an in-person dispensing requirement for mifepristone nationwide. This ruling is a sweeping and dangerous rollback that disregards the well-established safety and efficacy of…
Read MoreNational Abortion Federation Statement on FDA Review of Mifepristone
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 25, 2025 CONTACT: Carina Pacheco, [email protected] NATIONAL — Following the release of a letter from HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and FDA Commissioner Martin Makary in which they confirmed that the FDA is conducting a “review” of mifepristone based on a junk science report from an anti-abortion think tank, Brittany Fonteno, President & CEO…
Read MoreNational Abortion Federation Statement on Court Ruling to “Defund” Planned Parenthood
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 12, 2025 CONTACT: Carina Pacheco, [email protected] NATIONAL —Yesterday afternoon, the First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against Planned Parenthood, allowing the federal government to block patients from using Medicaid to pay for services at Planned Parenthood health centers. Brittany Fonteno, President & CEO of the National Abortion Federation, released the following statement: “Anti-abortion extremists remain…
Read MoreTrump Administration Plans to Strip Abortion Access from Veterans
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 4, 2025 CONTACT: Carina Pacheco, [email protected] Statement from Brittany Fonteno, President & CEO of the National Abortion Federation, on Trump administration’s plans to strip abortion access from veterans: Once again, we’re seeing just how far anti-abortion politicians are willing to go to control our bodies and strip us of basic health care. The reported plan…
Read MoreHouse Passes Cruel Reconciliation Bill
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 3, 2025 CONTACT: Carina Pacheco, [email protected] Statement from NAF President & CEO Brittany Fonteno on how the passing of the reconciliation bill will impact reproductive health access: What is abundantly clear to abortion providers and advocates is that the Trump administration and its allies have used the reconciliation bill as yet another tactic for achieving…
Read MoreWisconsin’s Pre-Civil War Ban Invalidated
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 2, 2025 CONTACT: Carina Pacheco, [email protected] Statement from Brittany Fonteno, President & CEO of the National Abortion Federation, on Wisconsin Supreme Court’s decision to strike down 1849 law: I am heartened by the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s decision affirming that abortion is legal in the state and rejecting the use of an archaic 19th-century statute to…
Read MoreSupreme Court Rejects Planned Parenthood’s Challenge to South Carolina Restriction
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 26, 2025 CONTACT: Carina Pacheco, [email protected] Statement from NAF President & CEO Brittany Fonteno on Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic: Low-income and uninsured people in South Carolina already face disproportionate barriers to accessing health care as a result of abortion bans and systemic racism. These are the people who will most acutely feel the…
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