The scoring formula is simple: Legislators receive points for voting for or sponsoring pro-reproductive freedom legislation. They lose points for voting for or sponsoring anti-reproductive freedom legislation. This year’s scorecard includes additional points gained for those who used their platform and power to fight for reproductive freedom in the special session.

Protecting and expanding access to abortion is our core mission, and support for these bills are weighted more heavily on the scorecard,  but we know abortion access doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Access to abortion is dependent on many more factors than just legality, and the right to live in health and safety takes far more than basic legal protections. As such, we have adopted a Reproductive Justice lens to guide our work, which has become a core component of our evaluation rubric.

Reproductive Justice is the right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, decide when or whether to have children, and parent and live in safe and sustainable communities. Reproductive Justice centers the lived experiences of those who are most impacted by attacks on reproductive healthcare: Black, Indigenous, and people of color, LGBTQ+ people, immigrants, disabled people, and other historically marginalized groups. 

During the 2021 legislative session we tracked legislation that goes beyond abortion access to a range of issues that impact individual’s reproductive freedom, including access to basic healthcare, insurance coverage of birth control, protections from discrimination based on race, gender or other held identities, and efforts to support and protect pregnant people, young people, and families across the state.

Find the full list of tracked and scored bills here.