Crossposted with permission from Law Students for Reproductive Justice. Written by Emily T. Wolf, Vice-President, Fordham Law Students for Reproductive Justice Fordham University is a Jesuit school. Because of this, students are not able to get birth control prescribed to them at the on-campus health centers. Fordham LSRJ wanted to provide Fordham students with a way [...]
Despite enormous pressure from the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Obama Administration recently decided not to broaden the religious exemption for contraceptive coverage under the Preventive Care package of the Affordable Care Act. This demand for additional exemptions, would have denied millions of American women contraceptive coverage, including students, teachers, nurses, social workers, and [...]
by Jen Wang, Policy Associate, NARAL Pro-Choice America President Obama’s decision to make sure health plans cover birth control without a copay was one of the most significant advances for women’s health in decades. Now, most American women will have health insurance that covers contraception, regardless of where they work. The new policy is long [...]
As you may have heard, Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced last Friday that not only will regulations under the Affordable Care Act require all insurance plans to cover contraception and other women’s preventive care without co-pay or deductible, but religiously affiliated schools, hospitals and organizations will have to comply as [...]
by Jean Silver-Isenstadt, MD, PhD, National Physicians Alliance I attended a health policy conference last week where the buzz was women. The question on everyone’s mind was: Why aren’t American women angrier that every last one of the Republican candidates for president has threatened to repeal a law that has brought the greatest advance for [...]
Monday the 23rd marked the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, a Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal for women in 1973 and a resounding triumph for the feminist cause. There are numerous events hosted in remembrance of this court case. The largest organized event is the annual March for Life where thousands of [...]
Has the price of birth control ever kept you from buying it? The number one prescription drug for women ages 18-44 years, the average women pays $50 a month for birth control. This is an obvious barrier to access, particularly for low-income women and students. Reproductive rights are a fundamental aspect of women’s [...]
by Amy Allina, Raising Women’s Voices for the Health Care We Need President Obama likes to talk about the fact that he lives in a household of strong women. When he does it, he seems genuinely pleased and proud to be able to talk about his daughters, his wife and his mother-in-law in those terms. [...]
by Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, blogging on Huffington Post There’s not a lot we agree on in this country. And yet, there is one topic around which there is practically universal agreement: the right of women to access birth control. That’s right–99 percent of women in the U.S. who have been sexually active [...]
by Abigail Collazo, Fem 2.0 The Catholic Church and I have had a bit of a contentious relationship, to say the least. From its longtime suppression of women’s rights to its absurd defense of the Pope’s infallibility, well, it’s hardly the institution I look to for the be all and end all in moral direction. [...]
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