News & Announcements

October 2020

Claire Mawisa joins Ibis Board of Directors

We are delighted to announce that Claire Mawisa, a South African media personality and a Director at Luminosity Lab , has joined Ibis’s Board of Directors as a member at large. Claire is an investigative journalist at Carte Blanche , one of South Africa’s flagship magazine and actuality...
September 2020

Honoring Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and continuing the fight for reproductive equity and justice

As researchers and advocates for sexual and reproductive equity and justice, we grieve the devastating loss of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Justice Ginsburg was a trailblazer, champion, legal titan, reproductive rights advocate extraordinaire, and overall force. In the highest court...
September 2020

Ibis responds to reports of hysterectomies without consent in ICE detention center

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Today, Kelly Blanchard, President of Ibis Reproductive Health, released the statement below following a whistleblower complaint of an alarming number of hysterectomies without consent in an ICE facility. We are outraged to hear the reports from Nurse Dawn Wooten, the...
July 2020

New website exposes motives of anti-abortion policymakers

While last week’s Supreme Court decision struck down a Louisiana abortion law, hundreds of restrictive abortion laws remain on the books—a new online tool seeks to hold state lawmakers accountable for promoting women’s, children’s health. 07.09.2020 - (PRESS RELEASE) Today,...
July 2020

Ibis responds to Supreme Court decision on birth control coverage

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Today, Kelly Blanchard, President of Ibis Reproductive Health, released the statement below in response to the Supreme Court's decision on birth control coverage. “Today’s decision is a devastating loss and flies in the face of what we know to be true based on...
June 2020

Ibis responds to US Supreme Court decision in June Medical Services v. Russo

June 29, 2020 – With today’s decision, the Supreme Court has affirmed what we've long known, and what research from Ibis Reproductive Health and our colleagues helped codify into law four years ago: it is unconstitutional for states to impose medically unnecessary “admitting...