Health Care & Reproductive Rights

Roe v. Wade 40th Anniversary

For 40 years women have had the legal right to decide whether or not to have an abortion, yet even today numerous barriers threaten that right.

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Preventive Services in the Health Care Law

Preventive Services in the Health Care Law

This new 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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This Is Personal

Join the Reproductive Health Campaign

Go to ThisIsPersonal.org to get the facts and tools you need to help protect women's reproductive health.

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Not in Her Shoes

This is Personal

At 40, Roe v. Wade is more relevant than ever. Tell opponents: no one knows what it's like to be in your shoes.

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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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Roe v. Wade 40th Anniversary
Preventive Services
This Is Personal
Not in Her Shoes
Report Card on Women's Health

Highlights

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 | The Ryan Budget’s Catastrophic Health Cuts and their Impact on Women

March 14, 2013

Representative Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) proposed budget for fiscal year 2014 includes devastating cuts to the health care programs women and families rely on.  Ryan would repeal the Affordable Care Act, make drastic cuts to Medicaid, and convert Medicare into a voucher program. These changes would leave millions of women and their families without the financial security of high-quality health insurance, unable to access the health care services they need, and facing dramatic increases in their healthcare costs.

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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 | Even More Than Abortion: The Constitutional Importance of Roe v. Wade and the Right to Privacy

January 18, 2013

Roe did far more than establish the right to abortion; it solidified and expanded the constitutional “right to privacy,” which has also been described as the right to autonomy or to be let alone.  This right to privacy is part of the right to liberty protected by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, which state that no person shall be deprived of “life, liberty or property, without due process of law.”

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More Resources

Fact Sheet | Contraceptive Coverage without Cost Sharing Under the Federal Health Care Law: What Students Should Know

April 09, 2012

This fact sheet provides information for students on what the health care law means for them in terms of coverage of certain preventive health services and screenings without cost-sharing. It also provides students at religiously-affiliated universities with some steps to take to ensure that female students get access to contraception as quickly as possible.

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Resource Page | Women Can’t Afford More Tax Cuts for the Rich

April 06, 2012

What do tax breaks for millionaires really cost?< Read more...

Fact Sheet | The “Teen Endangerment Act” Prevents Teens From Getting the Support and Care They Need When They Need It Most

March 30, 2012

The “Teen Endangerment Act” (H.R. 2299), otherwise known as the “Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act,” would endanger teens facing unwanted pregnancies, denying them access to the support and care they need during a critical time. This blatantly unconstitutional bill would turn grandmothers, sisters, and clergy into criminals and threaten doctors for providing necessary care.

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Fact Sheet | The Health Care Litigation: What Women Could Lose

March 26, 2012

In 2010, Congress passed the landmark Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, known as the “Affordable Care Act” or “ACA.” The ACA is intended to achieve near-universal health insurance coverage, slow the growth of health care costs and insurance premiums, and end an array of insurance practices that have prevented individuals from obtaining health insurance and health care. One of the ACA’s primary goals is to improve women’s health and address the discrimination women have faced in the health insurance market—disadvantages and discrimination that often lead women to bear significant costs or go without health care altogether. The law begins to remedy the economic impact of the discrimination that women have long faced in the health insurance market.

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Fact Sheet | I'm a Woman and... Resources for Women on How the ACA Will Impact Them

March 19, 2012

Whether a woman is uninsured, insured through her employer, owns a small business, has a pre-existing condition, insures her family, or insures herself; this set of factsheets address particular groups of women and helps them learn how the health care law will impact them.

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