Disability Inclusion & Health

Reproductive Health Care Should Exclude No One

Making fertility, maternal, and reproductive health information and services genuinely accessible to people living with disabilities.

Overview

People living with disabilities are too often left out of reproductive and fertility health conversations altogether, treated as though these topics don’t apply to them. This is neither accurate nor fair. Our Disability Inclusion & Health Program works to ensure that people with physical, sensory, intellectual, and other disabilities have equal access to reproductive health education, fertility support, and maternal care, and the basic dignity of being seen as whole people with the same hopes for love, family, and parenthood as anyone else.

Why It Matters

Persons with disabilities frequently face compounded barriers: inaccessible clinic facilities, healthcare providers without disability-competent training, assumptions that they are not sexually active or should not become parents, and a near-total absence of reproductive health materials in accessible formats such as sign language, braille, plain language, or audio. These barriers translate into real harm: delayed diagnoses, unmet family planning needs, and social isolation during already vulnerable health journeys. Inclusion is not a favor we extend; it is a baseline standard of care.

What We Do

• Accessible Health Education — Reproductive and fertility health materials adapted into accessible formats and delivered through disability-inclusive channels and partner organizations.
• Provider Sensitization Training — Training healthcare workers and our own staff on disability-competent, respectful care, delivered in partnership with our Training & Capacity Building Program.
• Barrier-Free Referral Pathways — Identifying and recommending clinics and facilities with accessible infrastructure for people with mobility, sensory, or other disabilities.
• Advocacy for Inclusive Policy — Pushing for reproductive health policies and facility standards that explicitly include persons with disabilities, in partnership with our Advocacy, Research & Policy Program.
• Partnerships with Disability Organizations — Collaborating with disability advocacy groups to co-design programs and reach community members directly, on their terms.
• Individualized Family Planning & Fertility Support — Care built around each person’s specific needs and informed consent, never assumptions about what they want or can handle.

Who We Serve

Individuals living with physical, sensory, intellectual, or developmental disabilities; their partners and families; disability rights organizations; and healthcare providers seeking training in disability-inclusive reproductive care.

Our Approach

1. Listen — Partner with disability-led organizations to understand real barriers, not assumed ones.
2. Adapt — Deliver information and services in accessible formats and settings.
3. Train — Build provider competence in respectful, disability-inclusive care.
4. Advocate — Push for policy and infrastructure that make inclusion the standard, not the exception.

Help us make reproductive health care inclusive for everyone.