Reflections On My One-Year Anniversary: Latinas Hold the Power and Potential...
I recently celebrated my first anniversary as the executive director of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (NLIRH). It’s been quite a year—I’ve traveled to a dozen states, met with...
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Many view the 2012 election as a mandate on the Democrats’ vision for the poor and middle class. Tammy Baldwin, for example, clearly won her Senate seat because she campaigned on two words: middle...
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Emergency Contraception Should Be Available Over The Counter. And You Can...
Last week’s announcement from the esteemed American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), suggesting it’s time to make oral contraceptives accessible without a prescription, is the perfect...
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SCOTUS Renews Liberty University's Challenge to Obamacare
On Monday the Supreme Court paved the way for Christian college Liberty University to challenge Obamacare, ordering the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to consider the claim by the school that the...
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The Dark, Dismal Future Of Public Health Care In Texas: Health Commissioner...
The new executive commissioner of Texas' Health and Human Services Department—the social services behemoth that's currently in the process of building a whole new Texas Women's Health Program (WHP) so...
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Brownback's Faux-Life Reality: Kansas Kids Denied a Place—and a Future—at the...
Last week, I ate my Thanksgiving dinner in a place called Wichita, Kansas. I shopped at three different grocery stores, fussed over dinner preparation, gathered with family and ate three desserts with...
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Fiscal Conservatism, Texas Style? Texas Family Planning Program Now Serves...
Texans are now getting far fewer family planning services at a higher cost than ever, according to documents submitted to the Department of State Health Services council this week. Just 75,160...
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Texas Freedom Network Rallies Clergy In Favor Of Contraception
More than 300 Texas clergy have signed an ongoing petition to demonstrate that it's possible to have faith both in God and in women—at the same time. Sponsored by the Texas Freedom Network, an...
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Federal Judge Rules Oklahoma Can Terminate Planned Parenthood WIC Contract
A federal judge rejected Planned Parenthood's attempt to prevent Oklahoma officials from ending its contract with the women's health organization to provide food vouchers and counseling to poor mothers...
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Texas Can Cut Funding To Planned Parenthood, Court Rules
A federal judge has ruled that Texas may cut off funding to Planned Parenthood's family planning program while a trial over the legality of the move pushes ahead.Judge Gary Harger ruled that the state...
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Texas Claims Women's Health Program Capacity Will Increase Without Planned...
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) claims that, according to its own research, there will be plenty of doctors available to serve clients in the newly implemented Texas Women's...
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Virginia Bill Would Abolish Abortion Funding for Low-income Women Carrying...
Published in partnership with The American Independent.UPDATED, 3PM, January 17, 2013: This bill was defeated in committee this morning by an 8-7 vote. A proposal in the Virginia General Assembly to...
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President Obama: Women Stood for You. Stand With Us and Remove Abortion...
This election, I was proud to work with many young people to engage our communities and campuses in the issues that impact us. One issue that engaged many young women in the election work I did this...
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Virginia Committee Panels—Where all Reproductive Legislation Goes to Die
The good news—low income women in Virginia won't be forced to give birth to fetuses incompatible with life just because they have Medicaid.The bad news? They, and all other women seeking an abortion,...
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Taking Action: Making Roe Real for All Women
January 22, 2013, will mark the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark US Supreme Court decision that established a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion. While we celebrate that Roe has...
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Texas Disables Problem-Riddled Health Provider Website But Still Has No...
Last week, the Texas Health And Human Services Commission disabled the problem-riddled online provider search function on its Texas Women's Health Program (TWHP) website, which has, for months,...
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Roe at Forty: Today in Texas, it is Yesterday
Tuesday was the much-celebrated 40th anniversary of the seminal Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in America. But today, Texans are waiting 24 hours for mandatory, forced trans-vaginal...
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Advocating for Safe Abortion Care: Why Passing New York City's Resolution...
The following is a testimony given before the New York City Council Committee on Women’s Issues in favor of Resolution 1635-A on January 18, 2013. The committee passed the resolution, and on January 23...
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In New York City, Medicaid Coverage of Abortion Doesn't Cut It
The following is a testimony given before the New York City Council Committee on Women’s Issues in favor of Resolution 1635-A on January 18, 2013. The committee passed the resolution, and on January 23...
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Resolution 1635-A: Why We Need Safe and Legal Abortion Without Government...
The following is a testimony given before the New York City Council Committee on Women’s Issues in favor of Resolution 1635-A on January 18, 2013. The committee passed the resolution, and on January 23...
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