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Hospital Mergers and the Threat to Women's Reproductive Health Choices

This report series is designed to provide health care advocates and others seeking to preserve access to reproductive health services with an understanding of how to use the nation's laws to challenge proposed hospital mergers that threaten to reduce or eliminate these services.

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June 9, 2006

This report explains how constitutional provisions requiring the separation of church and state may be used in efforts to protect access to reproductive health services.

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October 15, 2003

Truth or Consequences: Using Consumer Protection Laws to Expose Institutional Restrictions on Reproductive and Other Health Care is a useful resource guide, designed to provide health care advocates and others seeking to preserve access to reproductive health services with an understanding of how to use the nation's consumer protection laws to challenge institutional restrictions.

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June 15, 2001

This is a useful resource guide, designed to provide health care advocates and other seeking to preserve access to reproductive health services with an understanding of how to use the nation's charitable assets laws to challenge proposed hospital mergers and other transactions that threaten to reduce or eliminate these services.

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June 9, 1998
A first-of-its-kind resource guide, this publication is designed to provide health care advocates and others seeking to preserve access to reproductive health services with an understanding of how to use the nation's antitrust laws to challenge proposed hospital mergers that threaten to reduce or eliminate these services. Read more...