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Gretchen Borchelt, Senior Counsel & Director of State Reproductive Health Policy

Gretchen Borchelt is Senior Counsel and Director of State Reproductive Health Policy at the National Women’s Law Center. She oversees the Center’s state-based legal and policy efforts to protect and expand women’s access to reproductive health care. Gretchen also works on a range of issues as part of the Center’s Health and Reproductive Rights Team, including health care law implementation, access to contraception, refusals to provide health care, and judicial nominations. Previously, she worked at Physicians for Human Rights and was a Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellow at the National Partnership for Women and Families. Gretchen is a graduate of Columbia Law School and the University of Virginia.

My Take

Not an Anniversary to Celebrate

by Gretchen Borchelt, Senior Counsel
National Women’s Law Center

This week marks one year since the Supreme Court decided Gonzales v. Carhart the case upholding a federal ban on a medically-approved abortion procedure that does not contain protections for women’s health. What has happened in the year since the case was decided? 

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