Mabel Wadsworth Center

03/27/2026

might be winding down, but we're celebrating doulas 24/7/365! Doulas do essential and compassionate work supporting pregnant, birthing, and postpartum folks that greatly improve health outcomes both for those giving birth and their little ones. They deserve their flowers every day.

Want to learn more about doulas and the important role they play? Check out the work of Maine Doula Coalition!

03/27/2026

It's everyone's favorite time of the month, Reproductive Left! This month, we're diving into the history of the hormonal birth control pill and how it was created. Big heads up for medical racism, medical sexism, and eugenics. How was the first birth control pill created? What does colonialism and the mistreatment of Puerto Ricans have to do with it? How did Catholicism play a factor? How do we balance the history of harm with the benefits birth control provides? While we don't have enough time to touch on everything around this important history, answer these questions and more in this episode of Reproductive Left! Listen now at the link to our SoundCloud below, or anywhere you enjoy podcasts.

https://soundcloud.com/mabelwadsworth/the-complicated-history-of-birth-control-pills

Image: Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition via Unsplash

03/24/2026

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Accessible/affordable child care is essential!

03/17/2026

PrEP is one incredible tool in the toolbox for protecting yourself against HIV! When you take care of your health, you're also taking care of the health of your community.

In the fight against HIV, it's also essential that we don't stigmatize people living with HIV--getting sick is one of the things humans are best at. People living with HIV can live long, healthy, happy lives when they have access to the right medications. In fact, folks living with HIV on the right meds can achieve an "undetectable" status, meaning that they can't transmit the virus to others (U=U). Yay science!

Thinking about putting some PrEP in your step? Contact our office by phone at 207-947-5337 or by sending an email to info@mabelwadsworth.org to schedule an appointment!

03/17/2026

In just over a week, we'll be joining our friends from Maine Family Planning, SAFE Maine, and Maine Doula Coalition for this fantastic info session! Join us to learn about changes to healthcare access and connect with resources. This is a family friendly event, and we'll have a kids' craft corner along with refreshments!

Where: Moore Community Center, 125 State St, Ellsworth
When: Thursday 3/26 5:30pm-7pm

03/14/2026

It's Pi(e) Day! 3.14, today's date and the first few digits of pi, is often celebrated with pie. Celebrate pi(e) day with a vasectomy! You can schedule a consult with us by calling our office at 207-947-5337 or by sending an email to info@mabelwadsworth.org.

03/10/2026

Care is our legacy and our promise to the future. Independent abortion clinics like Mabel Wadsworth Center are part of the long history of abortion care in the United States. You can support our work and celebrate abortion providers directly by donating at mabelwadsworth.org/donate or supporting providers across the country by going to keepourclinics.org/

We hope that today and every day, you join us to

03/10/2026

Abortion will be here as long as we're here. At Mabel Wadsworth Center, we show up every day because our community deserves care they can trust. There have always been abortion providers, and there will ALWAYS be abortion providers like us.

On this Abortion Provider Appreciation Day (and every day!), we

Thank you infinitely to our friends at Abortion Care Network and Keep Our Clinics

03/09/2026

Speaking of Women's History Month--the SAVE Act would disenfranchise many voters and essentially impose a poll tax. Some of the people who would be most impacted are those who have done any sort of name change, which includes trans folks and married women who took their spouses' last names.

Contact your Senators and tell them you oppose the SAVE Act and this attack on voting rights!

Trump claimed yesterday he wouldn't sign any bills into law until the Senate passes the SAVE America Act, an unnecessary and draconian piece of legislation that would disenfranchise millions of Americans by making it harder to vote by requiring documentary proof of citizenship, like a birth certificate or passport.

Right now, the Senate does not have the votes to pass this bill. You can help make sure this legislation does not pass by contacting Sens. Collins and King and reminding them that their constituents already soundly rejected a similar proposal - Question 1 in the 2025 elections - and that the will of Maine people must be respected.

This bill will make it dramatically harder for married women, military voters, families who have survived natural disasters, people of color and the HALF of American adults who do not possess a passport to exercise their right to vote. With a historically important election on the horizon, it's more important than ever to protect our elections and our democracy.

Click the link in our comments to let your Senators know.

03/09/2026

March is Women's History Month, and yesterday, March 8th, was International Women's Day.

Women have always played essential roles in history and in their communities, even when their legacy and work aren't honored. There are those like Mabel Sine Wadsworth, Marsha P. Johnson, and Loretta J. Ross whose names and incredible work are known. There are those like Rosalind Franklin, the true discoverer of the shape of DNA whose work was plagiarized by men, who are known but don't receive the credit they deserve. Of course, there are those whose names are not simply lost to time, but were deliberately erased from history.

There is no history or future without women, and that must always include women of all experiences. Black women, disabled women, trans women, poor women, immigrant women, Indigenous women, and more are women whose histories and futures matter.

03/09/2026

Two-in-one lobby day for two essential and entwined topics! Check out the comments on the original post for the registration links.

03/08/2026

Empowered women empower (all) women. Happy !

Digital illustration of two women. On the left is a brown woman with a bob haircut with her back turned. She’s smiling with her hand on her hip. She’s wearing a dress with different heart characters printed on it with a green sweater vest. Her sweater reads, ‘empowered women empower women.’ On the right is a Latina woman with blonde hair who is looking at you. She is wearing a glittery star-print bodysuit and pink ombré jeans. In her back pocket is a trans flag.