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For more than three decades, the Center has worked to preserve women's right to make their own reproductive choices. Reproductive health care must be both comprehensive and affordable for women to lead healthy and productive lives. Our work to prevent unintended pregnancy includes efforts to increase and protect access to contraception, including emergency contraception. The Center is at the forefront of efforts to expand access for low-income women through Medicaid and private insurance coverage of contraception.
In addition, the Center address barriers to reproductive health care access, such as religious restrictions on reproductive health services, including pharmacist refusals to provide contraception. The Center protects women's right to safe, legal abortion, which includes judicial nominations advocacy to ensure that the courts do not undermine the right to choose. The Center also opposes attempts to criminalize the behavior of pregnant women. The troubling trend of prosecuting women for drug use during pregnancy only discourages women from seeking prenatal care, and results in less healthy mothers and babies.
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Reproductive Rights & Health Care Reform Health reform should not be used to explicitly discriminate against coverage. During the conference to negotiate a final bill, legislators must protect women's ability to make abortion decisions for ourselves, not take those choices out of our hands by eliminating the availability of insurance coverage for abortion.
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The Medicaid Family Planning Project NWLC is working in partnership with advocates and policymakers to expand access to contraception and other preventive health care critical to the health and well-being of low-income women and their families. |
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Attack on Women's Health: The Health Care Refusal Regulation NWLC has called on President Barack Obama to reject the Bush Administration's final attack on women's health by rescinding the Department of Health and Human Services rule that undermines patients' access to vital health services and information and poses a serious threat to women's health. |
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The Health Care Religious Restrictions Project More and more, religious restrictions are limiting women's access to reproductive health care. Both institutions (such as hospitals, HMOs, and employers) and individuals impose their beliefs on women seeking services or payment for services. |
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The Pharmacy Refusal Project Refusals to fill prescriptions for contraception and to provide emergency contraception (E.C.) over-the-counter are an increasing problem across the country. |
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A Platform for Progress: Building a Better Future for Women and Their Families With the 2008 election behind us, it's time to look to the future and work together to tackle the issues that are so critical to women and their families.
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REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS & HEALTH CARE REFORM:
Abortion Restrictions in the Senate Manager's Amendment
The Nelson-Hatch Amendment: A New Ban on Abortion Coverage for Millions of Women and An Assault on Women's Health
The Stupak Amendment: A New Ban on Abortion Coverage for Millions of Women and An Assault on Women's Health
Oppose Efforts to Eliminate Coverage for Abortion in Health Care Reform
Oppose Efforts to Ban Coverage of Abortion in Private Health Insurance Except by Optional Riders
ASK! Will the Moral or Religious Beliefs of Your Health Care Providers Limit Your Access to Health Care?
The Health Care Religious Restrictions Project
If You Really Care About Intimate Partner Violence, You Should Care About Reproductive Justice (October 2009)
The Medicaid Family Planning Project
Fact Sheet: Increase Funding for the Title X Family Planning Program: Help Low-Income Women Access Quality, Affordable Family Planning Services and Other Preventive Health Care
New Opinion Research Shows Broad Public Support for Reproductive Health Coverage in Health Reform (July 7, 2009)
Interested Parties Memo: Understanding What Women Want in 2008
Press Release: Poll Findings: Women Pessimistic on Economy, Worried About Future (August 6, 2008)
Press Release: Opinion Survey Shows Broad Support in U.S. for Action to Bolster Reproductive Health Care (July 12, 2007)
Interested Parties Memo: Reproductive Health Care Poll of Republicans and Independents
Press Release: Opinion Survey Shows Broad Support Among Republicans and Independents for Reproductive Health Care Agenda (January 30, 2009)
Partners in Access: A Toolkit for Working with State Pharmacy Boards to Stop Refusals in the Pharmacy
The Pharmacy Refusals Project
Cochran Amicus Brief
Oklahoma v Hernandez Amicus Brief
Cruz Amicus brief
Fact Sheet on the Prosecution of Pregnant Women
Martinez Amicus Brief
McKnight Amicus Brief
Jill Morrison on laws that punish pregnant women (guest blog on Feministing)
Baltimore Sun - Cocaine baby cases reversed
DC Abortion Ban Lifted in House: NWLC Calls for Senate to Do the Same (July 16, 2009)
Memorandum to Interested Parties: Results of NWLC & PPFA Opinion Research on Reproductive Health and Abortion
Gonzales v. Carhart: The Supreme Court Turns Its Back on Women's Health and on Three Decades of Constitutional Law
