Desert Star Institute for Family Planning

Creating equitable access to reproductive health care for womb bearing people.

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We aim to improve access and empower people in their decisions regarding reproductive health.

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This patient-centered experience takes place in a private doctor’s office that fully integrates abortion with routine well care. Clinical instruction includes abortion, contraception, early pregnancy loss, and other common women’s health conditions.

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Reproductive Justice Advocacy and Organizing in Arizona

We are now in an alarmingly hostile climate where abortion bans hurt all pregnant people. Safe, equitable access to abortion without shame or stigma cannot be accomplished without eliminating racial and economic disparities in reproductive health. There are 3 major frameworks to address reproductive oppression: reproductive health, reproductive rights, and reproductive justice. Ultimately as in...

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We are a Black woman led organization, working from the foundational principles of Reproductive Justice, with intentional partnerships and programming that build community and center Black and Indigenous people and people of color.

"[Dr. Taylor and her staff] taught me how to thoughtfully approach family planning and challenged me to consider my role in advocacy as a future practicing physician."

87 % of all counties in the U. S. have no abortion provider

66 % of medical schools in the U.S. spend less than 30 minutes of class time on all aspects of abortion

$ 1,000 sponsors a medical student for Desert Star Institute training