Kotagal is a proven champion for women’s equity in the workplace Statement of Jocelyn Frye, President of the National Partnership for Women & Families WASHINGTON, D.C. – July 12, 2023 – “Today the Senate took an important step in the fight for equity...
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NEWS: States with abortion restrictions fail to support pregnant people
by Repro Health Watch | Aug 25, 2022 | Repro Health Watch
States that have enacted abortion restrictions or bans are doing little to “support the health and economic security of pregnant and birthing people and their families,” according to a new report from the National Partnership for Women & Families first shared with Axios.
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NEWS: New Biden abortion rights push addresses both women and men
by Repro Health Watch | Aug 18, 2022 | Repro Health Watch
“Cheered by a decisive win for abortion rights in a Kansas vote and eyeing November midterm elections, the White House is launching a push for abortion access that aims to influence men as well as women, sources with direct knowledge told Reuters.”
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NEWS: Online privacy in a post-Roe world
by Repro Health Watch | Aug 11, 2022 | Repro Health Watch
“The case of a Nebraska woman charged with helping her teenage daughter end her pregnancy after investigators obtained Facebook messages between the two has raised fresh concerns about data privacy in the post-Roe world.”
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NEWS: Biden signs second executive order to protect U.S. abortion access
by Repro Health Watch | Aug 4, 2022 | Repro Health Watch
“Joe Biden signed a second executive order on Wednesday that aims to protect access to reproductive healthcare after the US supreme court struck down the constitutional right to abortion.”
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Centering the Wellness & Mental Health of Communities of Color
by Ashi Arora | Jul 29, 2022 | Health Justice
In the fight towards equity and justice for women and families, we must acknowledge the factors that negatively impact communities of color’s well-being, which include but are not limited to collective, cultural, generational, and systemic trauma. Compounding that harm are the structural and cultural barriers to accessing culturally congruent, trauma-informed, anti-racist support and care exacerbate mental health challenges and inequities. We have compiled some resources that center the experiences, expertise, voices of communities of color.
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NEWS: Their medications cause pregnancy issues. Post-Roe, that could be dangerous
by Repro Health Watch | Jul 28, 2022 | Repro Health Watch
“Karen Kaiser says she will never forget her feelings of dread and sadness as she hurried past picket lines of antiabortion protesters in 2008. In the waiting room of a Maryland Planned Parenthood, “I remember crying,” she said. Kaiser had decided to have an abortion in part because she was taking a medication called Depakote to control her bipolar disorder.”
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NEWS: They had miscarriages, and new abortion laws obstructed treatment
by Repro Health Watch | Jul 21, 2022 | Repro Health Watch
“Last year, a 35-year-old woman named Amanda, who lives in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, had a miscarriage in the first trimester of her pregnancy. At a large hospital, a doctor performed a surgical procedure often used as a safe and quick method to remove tissue from a failed pregnancy… Eight months later,”
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NEWS: What President Biden’s executive order on abortion does not address
by Repro Health Watch | Jul 14, 2022 | Repro Health Watch
“President Biden attempted to preserve abortion access on Friday through executive action but stopped short of restoring full access to the procedure or preventing states from enacting their own restrictions or bans. The executive order Biden signed empowers Health and Human Services (HHS) in a variety of ways,”
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NEWS: How the fall of Roe v. Wade could impact abortion access across the world
by Repro Health Watch | Jul 7, 2022 | Repro Health Watch
“Abortion rights activists say the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down Roe v. Wade will reverberate around the world, possibly restricting access to the procedure in other countries and weakening the global movement for reproductive rights.”
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NEWS: No, Justice Alito, reproductive justice is in the Constitution
by Repro Health Watch | Jul 1, 2022 | Maternal Health
Editor’s Note: The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and reverse a legal precedent of nearly 50 years is no surprise. The willingness of the Court’s majority to disrespect the importance of women’s autonomy and catapult them backwards into a 19th century, second-class status speaks volumes about the majority’s lack of respect for women’s equality and individual dignity.
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Ethical shopping shows economic justice to the LGBTQ+ community – here’s how to do it.
by Jocelyn Nuñez-Colón | Jun 30, 2022 | Other
Ethical shopping is one of the most significant ways in which economic justice can be shown to the LGBTQ+ community, and is not something that should be limited to the month of June. Consider these ethical shopping practices to ensure that the LGBTQ+ community, especially LGBTQ+ workers, are placed at the forefront of your shopping cart.
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Dobbs v. Jackson WHO – What now?
by National Partnership Staff | Jun 24, 2022 | Reproductive Rights
We knew this was coming, but it doesn’t make it any easier.
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Whole Women’s Health Organization reversed a nearly 50-year legal precedent established in Roe v. Wade: that abortion is a fundamental constitutional right. The Court in Dobbs upheld the Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks, and ruled that states have the right to restrict or ban abortion access entirely.