Kate Dickerson, Outreach Associate

It feels like every day, all over the country, there are new attacks on women’s health and reproductive rights. The attacks are relentless and abhorrent. It's very apparent there needs to be as many strong voices standing up for women as possible. Are you a law student or do you know a law student that is interested in reproductive justice issues and want to stand up against these attacks? If so, please check out this important training!

I’m very excited for a tweetchat that’s happening this afternoon at 3pm ET with Sandra Fluke, National Women's Law Center, and Law Students for Reproductive Justice! Follow the conversation at #CCEduChat.

This chat comes from the realization that a lot of students and employees of universities had questions about their contraceptive coverage under the health care law. There’s a section of the law that requires all new and non-grandfathered private insurance plans to cover a wide range of preventive services, including services such as mammograms, pap smears, smoking prevention and contraceptives without co-payments or other cost sharing requirements. The Administration even proposed an accommodation that would enable religiously-affiliated organizations beyond churches – such as universities and hospitals - to avoid directly providing contraceptive coverage if it was against their religion, but would ensure that all women are guaranteed coverage of this critical service without cost sharing.