It’s these kinds of unequal conditions—and a vast disparity in opportunities for male and female athletes in D.C. Public Schools—that spurred the interest of the National Women’s Legal Center, which alleged in a June Title IX administrative complaint that DCPS has failed to provide female athletes opportunities for participation and resources equal to those provided to boys.
While Aikin's comment garnered a great deal of attention and condemnation, there's a lot more to worry about when it comes to the war against reproductive rights and justice. The National Women's Law Center reports that in the first six months of 2013, states introduced 273 anti-abortion provisions and enacted 38 of them.
The National Women's Law Center recently released a report containing some staggering numbers regarding proposed state and federal laws in the past year -- since Todd Atkin made his ignoramus comments.
There are three alarming stats which are blowing up the Internet are:
According to an analysis conducted by the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC), more than 70 percent of the new abortion restrictions enacted in the first half of 2013 don’t include any kind of exemption for pregnancies that result from rape.
Todd Akin’s “legitimate rape” comment is still affecting abortion legislation. A recent study by the National Women’s Law Center found that 86 percent of abortion restrictions introduced in Congress in 2013 apply to women who became pregnant from rape.
[…] “These restrictions are an insult to women and their health needs,” says NWLC Co-President Marcia D. Greenberger.
Karen Davenport, National Women's Law Center & Ethan Rome, Health Care for America Now (HCAN) joins Thom Hartmann. Come October - millions of Americans will able to buy health insurance through new Obamacare exchanges. Republicans are already calling President Obama's signature legislative achievement a failure - but what's really going on with the Affordable Care Act?
The comment was the beginning of the end of Akin’s Senate run. But while it may have cost him an election, it hasn’t stopped Republicans across the country from trying to legislate legal abortion out of existence. On Friday, the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) quantified those efforts in a new report, Shut That Whole Thing Down: A Survey of Abortion Restrictions Even in Cases of Rape.
Children are going to be born to Americans who are not wealthy. This is a fact. Those children need to be cared for, for their own good and the good of society—another fact.
