04.25.13 - "If a Peace Corps volunteer is raped and
becomes pregnant as a result, she has to pay for an abortion herself, because the federal government refuses to cover the cost.
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04.08.13 - The Center’s president and CEO, Nancy Northup, appeared on several programs on Friday after the news broke of the landmark victory in our emergency contraception case, including a roundtable discussion on All In With Chris Hayes that addressed how critical this decision is for all women. …
04.01.13 -
On March 6, the Arkansas legislature
enacted
the toughest abortion law in the nation, banning the procedure after 12 weeks of pregnancy. The accomplishment stood for all of 20 days before North
Dakota, with a law Gov…
04.01.13 -
States are becoming increasingly polarized over abortion, as some legislatures pass ever-tighter restrictions on the procedure while others consider
stronger legal protections for it, advocates on both sides say.
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03.26.13 - The Center’s president and CEO, Nancy Northup, appeared on MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry to talk about how the constitutional protections afforded all women through Roe v. Wade are being violated in Arkansas, North Dakota, and elsewhere. …
03.11.13 - The Center’s president and CEO, Nancy Northup, appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show to talk about Arkansas’ attempt to take a sledge hammer to the constitutional protections for abortion that Roe v. Wade established in 1973. …
03.08.13 - The Center’s president and CEO, Nancy Northup, appeared on NBC’s Nightly News to talk about Arkansas’ blatantly unconstitutional law that bans abortion within the first trimester of pregnancy…
03.05.13 -
August 1, 2012: A date that will live in infamy. Or so some religious conservatives contend. Matt Smith, president of the Catholic Advocate, solemnly
declared that "August first will be remembered as the day our most cherished liberty was thrown in a government dumpster and hauled away." L…
02.21.13 -
Less than two months into 2013, state legislators around the U.S. are aggressively pursuing an anti-choice agenda that would severely undermine—and in some
cases outright ban—reproductive health care services for women.
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