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National Partnership Condemns Supreme Court’s Chevron Decision that will Harm Women, Families and the Nation

Statement of Jocelyn Frye, President of the National Partnership for Women & Families WASHINGTON, D.C. – June 28, 2024 – Today, the Supreme Court upended sound, longstanding, legal precedent that has provided protections for everyday people for decades...

New Analysis Shows Unpaid Care Work in the U.S. is Worth More Than $1 Trillion Each Year

Asian women and Latinas spend the most time on unpaid caregiving per capita WASHINGTON, D.C. – June 27, 2024 – The National Partnership for Women & Families (NPWF) released a new analysis today, finding that Americans’ unpaid care work –...

EMTALA: Supreme Court Dismissal Leaves Pregnant Patients and Providers in Untenable Limbo

Statement of Jocelyn Frye, President of the National Partnership for Women & Families WASHINGTON, D.C. – June 27, 2024 – Today, the Supreme Court, in an unsigned opinion, dismissed for now a challenge to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act’s...

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What this July 4th means for women's progress and the unfinished promise of American democracy As we prepare to mark the 248th anniversary of our nation’s founding, we are increasingly reminded that our democracy has always been a work in progress – and that the...

NEWS: Abortion ruling leaves pregnant women, doctors in limbo over high-risk care

Abortion Ruling Leaves Pregnant Women, Doctors in Limbo Over High-Risk Care The Washington Post, June 27, 2024 One month after Kelsie Norris-De La Cruz was turned away from a Texas hospital with a life-threatening pregnancy complication, the 25-year-old college senior...

Americans’ Unpaid Caregiving is Worth More than $1 Trillion Annually – and Women are Doing Two-Thirds of The Work

Taking care of loved ones is an essential part of our families and communities. But while unpaid care is often done with love, it is labor nevertheless – labor critical to the functioning of our families, neighborhoods and our economy. Yet despite its...

HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy

FACT SHEET | The Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services finalized the HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy on April 26, 2024, in response to the threats to abortion access, health care privacy, and...

The Cumulative Costs of Barriers to Abortion Care

FACT SHEET | The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs, and the state abortion bans that followed, have further curtailed people’s access to essential healthcare and fundamentally undermined people’s autonomy. As a result, pregnant people encounter many costs – including...

State Abortion Bans Harm More Than Three Million Disabled Women

ISSUE BRIEF | Nearly two years later, the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade continues to undermine disabled people's reproductive freedom and dignity, threaten their economic security, and endanger their health and lives.

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Super Committee and Health Care: How Potential Cuts to Medicaid Could Harm Low-Income Women and Girls

by Davida Silverman, NHeLP | Nov 18, 2011 | Other

“Shared sacrifices.” “Tough decisions.” “Everything is on the table.” This is the rhetoric being used to describe the Super Committee’s daunting task of reducing the national deficit by $1.2 trillion over the next ten years.

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National Partnership Condemns Supreme Court’s Chevron Decision that will Harm Women, Families and the Nation

New Analysis Shows Unpaid Care Work in the U.S. is Worth More Than $1 Trillion Each Year

EMTALA: Supreme Court Dismissal Leaves Pregnant Patients and Providers in Untenable Limbo

Our bodies. Our voices. Our votes.

NEWS: Abortion ruling leaves pregnant women, doctors in limbo over high-risk care

Americans’ Unpaid Caregiving is Worth More than $1 Trillion Annually – and Women are Doing Two-Thirds of The Work

HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy

The Cumulative Costs of Barriers to Abortion Care

State Abortion Bans Harm More Than Three Million Disabled Women

Super Committee and Health Care: How Potential Cuts to Medicaid Could Harm Low-Income Women and Girls

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