U.S Senate Narrowly Passes Latest Attempt to Defund Planned Parenthood Pro-choice champions attempt to block defunding language and protect women’s health clinics (PRESS RELEASE) Ignoring calls from elected officials and other key leaders, the U.S. Senate today voted 52-47 to defund Planned Parenthood and repeal key pieces of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The measure […]
Event: What’s the Harm? Understanding Reproductive Justice NYU School of Law, October 30, 2015 Please join us on October 30, 2015 at 9:00am at NYU School of Law for What’s the Harm?: Understanding Reproductive Injustice. This event is open to the public, but registration is required. Please share this invitation. The Overview: This day-long symposium will […]
reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/20wkthumb.PNG The Supreme Court has ruled time and again that liberty is at the core of a woman’s right to control her destiny and her body, including decisions about whether ending or continuing a pregnancy is the best option for her. Every woman is fully capable of making thoughtful choices about her family, future, and […]
Court Protects Abortion Access for Low-Income Women in Alaska (PRESS RELEASE) Today the Alaska Superior Court struck down a state law and Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) regulation that would have severely limited Medicaid coverage of abortions for low-income women. The decision in Planned Parenthood v. Streur found that the statute and regulation […]
U.S. Senate Defeats Harmful Measure Stripping Planned Parenthood of All Federal Funding (PRESS RELEASE) Pro-choice Senators blocked attempts to advance a measure today which would have stripped Planned Parenthood of all federal funding dedicated to providing basic health care services, including cancer screenings and contraception, to millions of low-income women, men, and young people. The […]
reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/High-Cost-thumb.PNG Since 1976, anti-choice politicians unable to explicitly ban abortion have sought to make it unaffordable by passing federal and state bans on insurance coverage for abortion care. Today, numerous state and federal laws impose unfair and harmful limitations on such insurance coverage. Millions of women who qualify for public health insurance like Medicaid are […]
reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Feature_banner_EachWomanAct.jpg Hope for EACH Woman Bold new legislation in Congress would restore access to essential reproductive services for millions of women denied coverage. Five hundred dollars. That’s about what it costs for a woman to exercise her constitutional right to end a pregnancy in the United States—not including associated expenses such as travel, child care, […]
reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Feature_banner_SLS.jpg A Vision of Health Many of the nation’s top reproductive rights voices convened in Washington, DC, to nourish our shared vision of reproductive health policy for the future. The audience clusters attentively around her as she describes a morning two years ago—taping a catheter to the inside of her thigh, lacing up her pink […]
U.S. Supreme Court Preserves Affordable Care Act, Ensures Critical Health Benefits for Millions of Americans In protecting critical tax credits for federal exchanges established under Obamacare, women in 34 states to maintain preventive health coverage (PRESS RELEASE) The U.S. Supreme Court today issued a significant decision protecting affordable, quality health care benefits for millions across […]
