Womenstake, NWLC's Blog

by Steph Sterling

The National Women’s Law Center and Planned Parenthood Federation of America recently announced the results of a new national opinion survey on reproductive health.  The results are in, and Members of Congress should take notice. 

by Cristina Martin Firvida

Today, the House of Representatives is voting on the spending bill (H.R. 3043) that funds many of the federal programs that make the greatest difference in the lives of American women and their families – programs like Head Start, Pell grants, Title X family planning, and the Child Care and Development Block Grant. 

This is the bill that makes the spending decisions most of us care about – money to make it more affordable to find good child care for our children, to make sure schools can prepare them for a strong future, and to put a college education within the reach of more Americans. This is the bill that funds the research to find a cure for cancer, and to support health services in local community health centers. Many of these priorities have gone by the wayside for the last six years, and the bill being voted on today, while it falls far short of meeting unmet needs, certainly is better than anything we have seen in a long time.  Yet the President has threatened over and over to veto this bill because it spends $10 billion more on these kinds of priorities than his own budget proposes to spend – and to be clear, in many cases, his budget would cut a lot of spending that you and I care about. 

Louisiana is a (much harsher) copycat

by Gretchen Borchelt

And so it begins…