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Reports & Toolkits | Shut That Whole Thing Down: A Survey Of Abortion Restrictions Even in Cases of Rape (August 2013)

August 15, 2013

One year after Todd Akin’s infamous  false remarks about rape and pregnancy, anti-abortion lawmakers are still determined to enact such views into law.  This report documents abortion restrictions that have been introduced and enacted at the state and federal levels in the first six months of 2013 and that fail to protect women who are pregnant due to rape.

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Fact Sheet | State Bans on Insurance Coverage of Abortion Endanger Women’s Health and Take Health Benefits Away from Women

August 05, 2013

The health care law goes a long way toward improving women’s health and addressing the discrimination women have faced in the health insurance market. Unfortunately however, the health care law explicitly allows states to pass laws banning private insurance coverage of abortion in any exchange set up in their state.  State politicians who want abortion to be illegal have wasted no time pushing bans on insurance coverage of abortion, making abortion unaffordable and interfering with a woman’s ability to make her own health care decisions.

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Fact Sheet | Health Care Refusals Harm Patients: The Threat to Reproductive Health Care

January 25, 2013

Across the nation, the personal beliefs of individuals and institutions are interfering with patients’ access to health care.

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Fact Sheet | 2012 State Level Abortion Restrictions: A Dangerous Overreach into Women’s Reproductive Health Care

January 22, 2013

This year marks the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court ruling that affirmed a woman’s right to a safe and legal abortion.  Yet, anti-abortion opponents in the states continue to relentlessly attack this right.  In 2012, states passed 43 restrictions on abortion, the second highest number of new abortion restrictions passed in a single year.   These new obstacles to abortion represent a dangerous overreach into women’s reproductive health care and personal medical decisions.

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Fact Sheet | 40 Threats to A Woman’s Right to Decide Whether to Have an Abortion

January 18, 2013

January 22, 2013, is the 40th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Unfortunately, this historic Supreme Court decision and the fundamental constitutional right to abortion that it confirmed have been under ever-increasing attack. The following items summarize 40 of the current threats to Roe and to a woman’s right to safe, legal abortion.

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