Health Care & Reproductive Rights

Word of Mom - Get Covered

Word of Mom

We're enlisting the power of moms across the country to encourage their young adult children to get covered under Obamacare!

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"Shut That Whole Thing Down" - Abortion Restrictions Report

"Shut That Whole Thing Down"

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. 

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New health care law

Are you covered?

Obamacare will make health coverage more affordable and easier to obtain for millions of American women.

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Preventive Services in the Health Care Law

Preventive Services in the Health Care Law

This year, more health plans will come under the reach of the law and will cover certain women's preventive health services with no co-payments.

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Women's Health Report Card 2010

Are we making the grade on women’s health?

Find out how healthy women in your state are and how the new health care law will affect women's health and health policy.

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Highlights

Reports & Toolkits | The Affordable Care Act: Making Insurance Work

August 28, 2013

This report looks at the ways in which the Affordable Care Act improves insurance coverage, ensuring that premium dollars go towards high quality, affordable, and reliable plans. We will also introduce a few of the millions of Americans who will benefit, and in some cases are already benefitting from, these health insurance reforms.

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Fact Sheet | 2013 State Level Abortion Restrictions at Mid-Year: An Extreme Overreach into Women’s Reproductive Health Care

September 17, 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 state politicians continue to relentlessly attack this right, in the hopes of overturning Roe and preventing women from obtaining abortions. In the first 6 months of 2013, state lawmakers enacted 43 restrictions on abortion, including outright bans.   This is the second highest number of enacted restrictions at the mid-year mark, and equal to the total number of restrictions enacted in 2012.  These state restrictions are a dangerous overreach into women’s personal medical decisions.

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Fact Sheet | State Politicians Want Bosses to Make Women’s Health Care Decisions

June 14, 2013

State politicians are introducing bills that would allow a boss to trump women's health and women's access to the health care they need by refusing to comply with the birth control benefit of the health care law. These bill sare not about protecting religion. They are unconstitutional attempts to take away women's decision making, threatening women's health and equality.

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Fact Sheet | Requiring Crisis Pregnancy Centers to Disclose Limits on Care Is Part of a Long Tradition of Protecting Women’s Decision-making and Access to Reproductive Health Care

April 9, 2013

Women face many obstacles to receiving comprehensive, affordable, quality health care, including when individuals and institutions refuse to provide health care services.   Some even go so far as to refuse to inform women about their health care options or even to notify women that there are certain services or information that they will not provide.  This prevents women from participating fully in their own medical decision-making.  Not only are their rights compromised, their health may be harmed.

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Fact Sheet | Strong Public Support Continues for States to Accept Federal Funds to Cover More Uninsured People Through Medicaid

April 9, 2013

A new national survey sponsored by the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families and the National Women’s Law Center shows strong support among adults 18 and older for their states to accept federal dollars that have been allocated to cover more uninsured people through Medicaid.  The survey, conducted March 15-19, 2013 among 1,016 adults 18 and older, has a margin of error of + 4 percentage points.

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Resource Page | Overview of the Lawsuits Challenging the Affordable Care Act’s No Cost-Sharing Contraceptive Coverage Benefit

April 4, 2013

Full Document with Chart

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Fact Sheet | If You Really Care About Environmental Justice, You Should Care About Reproductive Justice!

October 09, 2012

Environmental Justice (EJ) and Reproductive Justice (RJ) share a common concern about the health of families and communities. Both EJ and RJ seek to improve the lives of disadvantaged women through education, empowerment and activism.  EJ seeks to reduce the inequitable environmental burdens borne by communities composed of people of color, indigenous groups, and those living in economically disadvantaged areas. RJ tries to ensure that all people—regardless of race, wealth and political or social power—can decide to have the children they want, raise the children they have and plan their families.

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Resource Page | Share Your Story: What do preventive health services with no co-pays or deductibles mean to you?

September 21, 2012

Has cost ever kept you or a family member from getting preventive care? Has it forced you to make tough choices, like delaying a health screening despite family history or putting off paying a bill so you can afford to see a doctor? We also would like to hear about any success stories! Have you received a benefit with no co-pay? Whatever it is, we want to hear from you!

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Infographics and Internet Memes | Who Should Make Decisions About Your Birth Control?

September 17, 2012

Did you get the memo? Some lawmakers want to allow bosses to decide whether they can deny birth control coverage to their employees. We’re not on board with that. Check out our factsheet to learn more.

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Fact Sheet | If Opponents of Birth Control Have Their Way, Millions of Women Would Lose Access to Birth Control

September 14, 2012

Opponents of birth control in Congress are working night and day to enact new laws and policies that would deny millions of women access to birth control -- including access already guaranteed to women by law. Thankfully, so far, supporters of birth control have stopped the worst of these Congressional attacks.  Although the anti-birth control efforts have taken several forms, they all would have the same effect: taking birth control coverage away from women nationwide. A comparison of opponents’ and supporters’ legislative priorities makes the difference clear: while opponents of contraception would take it away from women, supporters work to ensure that women have access to affordable birth control.

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Fact Sheet | If You Really Care about Criminal Justice, You Should Care about Reproductive Justice!

September 11, 2012

Working towards a more progressive criminal justice system is an important part of furthering the cause of reproductive justice. A criminal justice system that makes communities safer, protects personal liberty and limits abuses of power by governmental authorities will also further the cause of reproductive justice. Those who support a progressive criminal justice system will identify several common areas of advocacy with the Reproductive Justice movement. These include: opposing the criminalization of behaviors that are closely tied to unmet social service needs, especially mental health and substance abuse services; rejecting mass incarceration and the use of the criminal justice system to address problems better addressed through adequate social services; ensuring procedural safeguards, discouraging selective prosecution and protecting the constitutional rights of the accused; and advocating for fair, appropriate and humane sentences for those convicted of crimes.

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