U.S. House Passes Bill Designed to Deny Millions of Women Reproductive Health Care Coverage HR 7 would permanently ban abortion coverage in federal health plans, make abortion coverage effectively inaccessible in state exchanges (PRESS RELEASE) The U.S. House of Representatives today passed HR 7, also known as the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act”—a bill […]
India: State must act on contraception https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/CRR_india_1-24-14-1.jpg (PRESS RELEASE) Today, Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh ordered the government of Haryana to respond within a month to a petition alleging that its reproductive health policy and programs discriminate against women by limiting information and access to […]
Oklahoma EC Law Thrown Out of Court https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/CRR_OK_1-24-14.jpg An Oklahoma state court judge threw out a recently passed law that tried to reinstate unnecessary governmental barriers to emergency contraception. The restrictions required prescriptions for those under age 17 and forced women 17 and older to show indentification as proof that a prescription is not needed, […]
New York Times: Spain’s regressive abortion bill Johanna Westeson Regarding “Spain’s alarming abortion debate” (Editorial, Jan. 18): When a country severely restricts women’s access to abortion, as Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is proposing in Spain, it shames and stigmatizes all women who may need to end a pregnancy. This is true regardless of their reasons, […]
Indian High Court Orders Haryana Government to Respond to Allegations of Denying Women Modern Contraceptives (PRESS RELEASE) Today, Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh ordered the government of Haryana to respond within a month to a petition alleging that its reproductive health policy and programs discriminate […]
Oklahoma Judge: Restrictions on Emergency Contraception Violate State Constitution Oklahoma women will continue to have same access to safe and effective emergency contraception as other women across the U.S. (PRESS RELEASE) Late yesterday, an Oklahoma district court judge permanently struck down an unconstitutional state law restricting women’s access to emergency contraception. Judge Lisa Davis ruled […]
#ActforWomen: An opportunity we must seize By Nancy Northup https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/CRR_NN_headshot.jpg Politicians in the U.S. House of Representatives have already made it clear that—once again—one of their top priorities for the new year will be to continue their relentless assault on women’s health and rights. In one of its first acts of 2014, the House Judiciary […]
We Won’t Go Back Mark Ruffalo tell us a story about Roe v. Wade on its 41st anniversary—and talks about why the Women’s Health Protection Act must become law. It has been 41 years to the day since the U.S. Supreme Court, in its landmark Roe v. Wade decision, recognized the constitutional right of all […]
New York Magazine: Watch Mark Ruffalo Talk About Abortion Rights Kat Stoeffel, The Cut Mark Ruffalo has been a known abortion rights advocate for about a year. But now he’s on tape — just in time for the 41st anniversary of Roe v. Wade —explaining how hearing about his mother’s illegal abortion compelled him to […]
Talking Points Memo: Roe V. Wade Anniversary: Fights Over Abortion Are Often One-Sided Nancy Northup Politicians in the U.S. House of Representatives have already made it clear that—once again—one of their top priorities for the new year will be to continue their relentless assault on women’s health and rights. In one of its first acts […]
