https://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 […]
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 […]
Spring Webinar Series with LSRJ, the Center for Reproductive Rights & Ipas: Register Here! Join us on Monday, April 20th at 7pm EST for “Human Rights at Home and Abroad.” During this presentation, our speakers will explore the role of human rights law in the U.S. and globally. Karla Torres, Human Rights Legal Fellow at […]
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(REVISED 03.21.2019) This lawsuit successfully challenged a regulation that would have prevented most low-income women in Alaska seeking medically necessary abortion services from receiving Medicaid coverage. In 2001, the Alaska Supreme Court held that withholding state Medicaid coverage for abortions while covering all other medically necessary care, including for pregnant women, violated the equal protection […]
Senate Bill Would Ensure Military Servicewomen, Dependents Equal Access to Contraceptive Coverage, Family Planning Sen. Shaheen and more than a dozen other Senators sponsor new legislation to extend comprehensive reproductive health-care coverage to non-active duty servicewomen, military dependents (PRESS RELEASE) New federal legislation was introduced today in the U.S. Senate that would guarantee all women […]
House Appropriations Committee Approves Abortion Coverage for Peace Corps Volunteers In passing an amendment offered by Rep. Nita Lowey, House Appropriations Committee follows Senate’s lead and grants Peace Corps Volunteers abortion coverage in cases of life endangerment, rape, and incest (PRESS RELEASE) Today the House Committee on Appropriations voted to allow equal health care coverage […]
U.S.-born Girls Face “Vacation Cutting” https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/FGM_6.16.14.jpg The practice of genital mutilation, while deeply embedded in a number of African and Middle Eastern cultures, has been banned in the United States for almost 20 years. However, as Julie Turkewitz reports in the New York Times, there is growing concern for American-born girls who continue to be […]
Playing Politics with Women’s Health: U.S. Senator Pits Women’s Health Protection Act Against Nationwide Abortion Ban (PRESS RELEASE) Today Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is expected to try to force a vote on his unconstitutional, nationwide abortion ban and cynically pit this measure against the Women’s Health Protection Act (S. 1696/H.R. 3471)—a bill that would prohibit politicians from imposing unconstitutional […]