Affordable Care Act and Women's Health Blog-a-thon – The Posts

Today's the day! Yesterday our friends at MomsRising kicked things off, and today they're passing the torch on to us. Throughout the day, we'll be bringing you posts from NWLC staff members and bloggers across the net who are sharing stories about how the Affordable Care Act is affecting women and their families.

We'll be adding links to posts from our partners across the net to this post throughout the day – so keep an eye out here for all the action!

You can also take a look at what’s being said on Twitter:

A Few Choice Words - NARAL Pro-Choice Washington

• Deficit Reduction Lies: The House GOP Leadership's War on Women's Health and Contraception
  

American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists for California

• Hard-fought law is crucial to women's health

The Chicktionary

• Young, Broke, & Uninsured: One Year After The Affordable Care Act

DC Healthcare Policy Examiner

• One year later: the Affordable Care Act and the right to health care
  

Disruptive Women in Health Care

• Implementing Health Reform: Playing the Waiting Game
• Key Findings From The Kaiser Family Foundation's March Health Tracking Poll
• Better off today than one year ago?

The FBomb

• The Affordable Care Act: Feminism Moving Forward

Fem2.0

• Reflections on Health Care Reform, One Year Later
  

Girl w/ Pen!

• The Good News, "Woman" is Not a Pre-Existing Condition…the Bad News, it is Not 2014

Hello Ladies

• Two Ways to Mark the Anniversary of Healthcare Reform

Ibis Reproductive Health

• Public Funding of Family Planning is Essential, Even Under Health Reform 
• In Massachusetts, health reform is a lifesaver for women
• Increasing access to health insurance for young adults: An unheralded benefit of the ACA
• "Making it feasible for people": Young adults on Massachusetts health care reform

MomsRising

• Better benefits and better health for women, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius
• Why Families Need Health Care Reform Now More Than Ever, Christy Turlington Burns
• Why We Can’t Turn Our Backs on Health Care Reform, Senator Jeff Merkley
• Fighting for NJ’s Families, Senator Robert Menendez
• Health Reform: A Lifesaving Prescription for Women, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis

The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy

• Zen and the Art of Assessing The Affordable Care Act

National Council for Research on Women - The REAL Deal Blog

• Health Care Reform: Don't Step Back

National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health - Nuestra Vida, Nuestra Voz

• The Affordable Care Act one year later

National Partnership for Women & Families

• The Affordable Care Act at One
  

National Physicians Alliance

• The Affordable Care Act: What's in it for women?

National Women's Law Center

• Repeal of Health Care Law Would Jeopardize Women's Economic Recovery, Marcia Greenberger, Co-President
• News That Small Business Owners Are Starting to Take Advantage of Health Care Law Benefits Is Good News for Women
• The Health Care Law at One: Helping Seniors, Like My Dad, Move Forward
• Hooray for the ACA!
• It's ACA's First Birthday, but Women with Disabilities are Among Those Getting the Gifts
• The Health Care Law: Provides New Peace of Mind for Millions of People with Chronic Health Conditions - Like Me
• Health Care is for You Too, Generation Y!
• Raise a Glass to the ACA! Why Young Women Should be Celebrating the Anniversary of the Affordable Care Act
• An Ode to No-Cost Birth Control
• The Health Care Law - A Year Later: Reflections
• It's Because You're a Woman - The Lopsided Logic of Gender Rating
• The Affordable Care Act Benefits Rural Women
• The Affordable Care Act and the Next Generation: More Coverage Gives Young Adults the Certainty They Need to Succeed
• The Health Reform Law Means that Women Have Insurance for Maternity Care
• What the ACA at 1 Does for Me at 21
• I Won’t Root for the Yankees but I’m All for Weiner!

Peace and Sleep

• Seat Belts, Vitamin C, and Health Insurance...
  

Perfectly Awful

• NASCAR, Mental Illness, Women, & the Affordable Care Act 
  

Planned Parenthood

• Happy Birthday, Health Care Reform! From America's Women

Raising Wisconsin Women's Voices

• Moving Forward... Protecting Small Businesses
• Moving Forward... Protecting Seniors Care
• Moving Forward... Protecting Our Care
• Moving Forward... Protecting Women's Care

Someday

• Celebrating Health Care Reform

WIN Writing Group

• Happy Anniversary Affordable Care Act!
  

With a C

• Happy Anniversary to the Affordable Care Act

Working Moms on About.com

• Read This Book — Home/Birth: a Poemic
  

Young Invincibles

• A Look Back: Why ACA Was Needed From A Young Person's Perspective
• One Year Later, Court Cases Hit Appeals Courts