Policy Priorities

Our advocacy seeks to increase health equity and access to reproductive and other safety net services through stakeholder engagement, mobilization, and advancing a shared policy agenda.

MFHC’s 2024 policy priorities are:

• Ensure Medicaid operates effectively and is structured to provide the best care possible;
• Expand access to contraception and contraceptive equity;
• Advance racial and LGBTQIA equity in access to healthcare;
• Promote and improve the state Women’s Health Services Program (WHSP);
• Defend against attacks to the health safety net;
• Assure accurate and comprehensive sexual and reproductive health information and referrals, including to legal abortion outside Missouri;
• Repair and improve the federal Title X program; and
• Increase access to STI testing and treatment.

MFHC also supports partner organizations in achieving interconnected policy goals.