States Limit Access to Abortion and the Ballot Box WASHINGTON, D.C. – May 30, 2024 – A new report, Democracy & Abortion Access: Restrictive Voting Laws Threaten Freedoms, by the National Partnership for Women & Families found that the states with...
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NEWS: Florida’s 6-week abortion ban is now in effect, curbing access across the South
by Repro Health Watch | May 2, 2024 | Repro Health Watch
Starting today, people can no longer access legal abortions in Florida beyond six weeks of pregnancy, except in rare circumstances.
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Advancing Minority Health
by Kiera Peoples | Apr 30, 2024 | Choosing Health Equity
Glaring inequities persist among historically marginalized populations that demand transformative action. These inequities are more than numbers; they represent real-life consequences of historic underinvestment, adverse social drivers of health, implicit and explicit biases, and inequitable care delivery.
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NEWS: The Supreme Court’s likely to make it more dangerous to be pregnant in a red state
by Repro Health Watch | Apr 25, 2024 | Repro Health Watch
A federal law requires most US hospitals to provide an abortion to patients experiencing a medical emergency if an abortion is the proper medical treatment for that emergency.
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What States Stand to Gain From a National Paid Family and Medical Leave Program
by Jessica Mason, Molly Kozlowski | Apr 24, 2024 | Paid Leave
Which states have the most to gain from investments like paid leave? We crunched the numbers in our Paid Leave Means A Stronger Nation fact sheet series – a state-by-state look at the growing need for paid family and medical leave laws.
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Lawsuits Seek to Weaken Protections for Abortion Access in Emergencies
by Meera Rajput | Apr 22, 2024 | Reproductive Rights
Enacted by Congress in 1986, EMTALA requires U.S. hospitals that receive Medicare funding to give “necessary stabilizing treatment” to people in emergencies, regardless of their ability to pay or whether or not they have insurance.
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Dear Boss: I didn’t know what life was going to throw my way
by Jesse Matton | Apr 18, 2024 | Paid Leave
Shortly after having a little boy, my partner and I got to dive into the scary, competitive, expensive and overwhelming process of finding childcare. Fast forward to now, a year and half later, we have only managed to stay afloat as a family because of the flexibility, support, and policies in place that met me exactly when and where I needed them.
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NEWS: How women at one Arizona clinic are grappling with abortion ruling
by Repro Health Watch | Apr 18, 2024 | Repro Health Watch
Leah found out she was five weeks pregnant on the same day that the Arizona Supreme Court upheld an 1864 law banning nearly all abortions in the state.
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Black Maternal Health Week 2024: The Legacy of Black Maternal Wisdom
by Jessica Bates | Apr 17, 2024 | Maternal Health
To tell the story of reproductive justice without the long history of the labor of Black women’s bodies is to do a disservice to the reproductive justice movement.
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NEWS: What we know about the Arizona abortion ban
by Repro Health Watch | Apr 11, 2024 | Repro Health Watch
Arizona’s highest court upheld an 1864 law that bans nearly all abortions, a decision that could have far-reaching consequences for women’s health care and election-year politics in a critical battleground state.
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It’s Tax Season. Who’s Budgeting for Women’s Futures?
by Jessica Mason | Apr 10, 2024 | Congressional Relations
Recent budget proposals by the Biden administration and Republicans in Congress show how the two parties plan to support – or not – women and families.
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HHS Must Finalize Updated 504 Regulations
by Marissa Ditkowsky | Apr 8, 2024 | Health Justice
In September 2023, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services proposed a rule updating disability discrimination regulations under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 for the first time in almost 40 years.
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What Does the Jobs Report – and My Grandmother’s Cookbook – Tell Us About the Care Economy? | #JobsDay April 2024
by Katherine Gallagher Robbins | Apr 5, 2024 | Fair Pay
For Care Workers Recognition Month, we look at how caregiving jobs are faring in today’s economy – and why care work is personal for so many people.