Affordable Care Act (ACA)

Over 60,000 of you signed our petition to support no-cost birth control, and earlier today, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced it is adopting expert recommendations to require health insurers to cover contraception, along with a number of other preventive health services for women, without charging women co-payments. We got you covered – birth control without a co-pay will soon be a reality!

Thank HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius for moving women’s health a huge step forward. Read more »

*For horses. Not humans.

This week the House of Representatives has been debating H.R.1, the bill that would fund the government for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2011. The proposed budget makes devastating cuts to programs upon which women and their families rely. Read more »

Today, the House Energy and Commerce Committee held its first business meeting of the year to consider H.R. Read more »

This week, a firestorm erupted  over efforts by anti-choice members of Congress to narrow the long-standing “rape” exception to the ban on the use of federal funds for abortion.  Hailed by Speaker John Boehner as one of the top priorities for the new Congress, H.R. Read more »

I remember the first time I saw the bumper sticker: "Aren’t You Glad Your Mother was Pro-Life?" I was probably about 19, driving in upstate New York, taking myself up to college. I remember the visceral reaction I had; wanting to swerve my car into theirs and run them off the empty highway. Read more »

Speaker Boehner’s priorities: 

#1: Hold a vote to repeal the health care law, which will harm women’s health; 

#2: Threaten women’s access to health insurance coverage of abortion, even when it is paid for with their own private dollars, which would harm women’s health. 

Sense a trend?  Read more »

We often envision a world of “back alley” abortions should Roe v. Wade ever be overturned, but the case in Philadelphia against Kermit Gosnell makes it clear: for women without resources, information and access to safe, reputable providers, the future is now. Read more »

Let’s start with what I know to be true—Roe v. Wade saved women’s lives. Before Roe, women died. They died because they were desperate. Read more »

A new year is right around the corner, and it seems like everyone is setting goals and resolutions for what they hope to achieve in 2011 (and beyond). So it’s especially fitting that earlier in the month, the U.S. Read more »

Does your employer-sponsored health insurance cover your birth control? Most of us couldn’t have said “yes” ten years ago.  Read more »