"We are very happy with the rules," said Dania Palanker, senior counsel for the National Women's Law Center, which lobbied the IRS to disallow wellness programs from an employer's minimum healthcare coverage offering.
Marcia D. Greenberger, Co-President of the National Women’s Law Center released a statement that said, “While an improvement over current policy, today’s announcement is still disappointing because by retaining an age restriction that the FDA had previously determined was unnecessary, women of all ages must surmount barriers to getting the morning-after pill.
And Marcia Greenberger, co-president of the National Women’s Law Center, called the move "an improvement over current policy," but "still disappointing because by retaining an age restriction that the FDA had previously determined was unnecessary, women of all ages must surmount barriers to getting the morning-after pill."
"There's no question," said Fatima Goss Graves, vice president for education and employment at the National Women's Law Center, which does research and advocacy work for working women.
"The stakes were high in this case, and the precedent-setting decision provides guidance to schools across the country about how to measure compliance with Title IX's participation requirements and what counts as a sport under the law," said Marcia D. Greenberger, co-president of the National Women's Law Center, which filed an amicus brief in the case.
President Obama increased funding through the stimulus package, but states lost that money after 2010. In response to the fall in state revenues and the loss of extra federal funds in 2011, states cut services for the poor, including the child-care subsidies. A study by the National Women’s Law Center found that families in 27 states were worse off in 2012 than in 2011.
The Obama victory owes a lot to its feminist allies, which identified unmarried women as a critical voting bloc and executed a strategic campaign to get them to the polls. Today pro-Democratic women’s groups dominate the Progressive political landscape, serving a critical role in growing government and keeping Democrats in power.
