Expanding Access to Reproductive Healthcare in FY2022 Appropriations

Last Updated: July 6, 2021

For decades, politicians have used the annual appropriations process to restrict access to reproductive healthcare. The FY2022 appropriations process could break this cycle and advance reproductive rights and justice. “Legacy riders” in appropriations currently limit access to basic reproductive healthcare services in the U.S. and around the world, and the fight over these riders has additional urgency. On May 17, 2021, the Supreme Court announced it would consider Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, raising the risk that the Court may revisit its landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision deeming pre-viability abortion bans unconstitutional.