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Fact Sheet | Title VII Requires Covered Employers to Provide Contraceptive Coverage

February 09, 2012

For a PDF version of this fact sheet with footnotes see below.

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Fact Sheet | The Rehberg Draft Abuses the Appropriations Process to Undermine Women’s Access to Preventive Health Care and Harm Women’s Health

November 30, 2011

The Rehberg Draft includes dangerous provisions that could threaten women’s ability to purchase health insurance that includes abortion coverage, aims to eliminate millions of women’s access to basic, preventive healthcare, and expands existing refusal laws that would harm women’s health.

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Resource Page | Preventive Services, Including Contraceptive Coverage, Under the Health Care Law

November 02, 2011

The health care law requires new health plans to cover certain preventive services. This means that, as an increasing number of health plans come under the law’s reach over the next few years, more and more people will have access to a wide range of preventive services without co-payments, deductibles, or co-insurance. Read more...

Fact Sheet | The Title X Family Planning Program: Providing Critical Reproductive Health Care to Millions of Women

April 06, 2011

Title X (Ten) of the Public Health Service Act was signed into law in 1970 by President Richard Nixon, with strong bipartisan support in Congress. As the first and only comprehensive federal program dedicated to the provision of family planning services nationwide, Title X is an integral component of the nation’s public health infrastructure, providing critical reproductive health care to more than five million low-income women and men at over 4,500 community-based clinics across the nation. As the economy falters, more and more individuals come to rely on Title X clinics for reproductive and preventive care.

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Fact Sheet | The Pence Amendment Jeopardizes Women’s Access to Basic Health Care

April 06, 2011

During debate on the Continuing Resolution for fiscal year 2011, the House adopted an amendment offered by Representative Mike Pence (R-IN) that would take all federal funds away from Planned Parenthood clinics. This targeted amendment puts the health of millions of low and middle-income women at risk by eliminating their primary source of preventive health care and family planning services. Not only would this amendment eliminate the provision of cancer screenings and other vital health services for women, but it represents a direct attack by Members of Congress on women’s ability to control their own reproductive health.

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