Regulations implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act would protect 2.8 million pregnant workers WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 26, 2024 – The National Partnership for Women & Families is calling out the recent partisan lawsuit led by 17 states to...
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Montana House Moves to Preemptively Ban Telemedical Abortion, But There is Good News
In Montana, we are two-thirds of the way through our 64th Legislature and there is no doubt that 2015 is a tough year for reproductive rights.
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Let’s Make One Thing Clear: Abortion Access is Under Attack, and Tennessee is Fighting Back!
Tennessee has some of the strongest protections for personal privacy in the country. Unfortunately, last November we lost Amendment 1, a ballot question that was designed to make it easier for politicians in Nashville to push for abortion restrictions.
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Expand Access to Contraception for Military Women and Families
All women deserve comprehensive birth control coverage and counseling.
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Beyond Amendment 67: Looking Ahead in the Fight for Reproductive Justice in Colorado
As a new year begins, we have a lot to celebrate in Colorado.
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Abortion Coverage for Peace Corps Volunteers, at Last
The funding bill Congress passed last weekend lifts the terribly unfair ban on coverage for abortion services for Peace Corps volunteers who survive rape or incest, or whose lives would be jeopardized by continuing a pregnancy.
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Resounding “No” to Personhood in Conservative North Dakota
On November 4th, voters in North Dakota made history when they made it the third state in the nation to decisively reject a “personhood” amendment and, with it, the extreme agenda of the personhood movement.
![In Pennsylvania, a Proactive Fight for Abortion Access and Economic Rights](https://nationalpartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/susan-frietsche.jpg)
In Pennsylvania, a Proactive Fight for Abortion Access and Economic Rights
Over the last four decades, we’ve watched anti-choice advocates shift focus from criminalizing abortion to an incremental strategy of passing medically unnecessary regulations designed to force abortion clinics to close down.
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Ten Thousand Miles for Reproductive Justice
Kicking off in Los Angeles, California on August 9th, the All* Above All Be Bold Road Trip began its month-long, cross-country journey through 12 cities and eight states.
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Missouri Politicians Should Stay Out of the Exam Room
The Missouri Legislature is just hours away from deciding if politics will once again trump medicine.
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Protecting Access to Medication Abortion: A Good Option for Women
Women’s health care has targeted medication abortion since it became available in the U.S. over the past decade and a half ago.
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Women’s Equality Matters
Today, women across the country still routinely face inequality at home, at work and throughout society. And too often, the issues we care most about seem not to matter.
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Oklahomans Fight Back
Oklahomans pride themselves on the way our citizens pull together in emergencies and tragedies. But many residents, unfortunately, also like to call ours the most conservative state.
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Making History for Women and Families
At the National Partnership, we couldn’t be more inspired to make history on the issues of paramount importance to women and their families.
![What’s at Stake in the Supreme Court Birth Control Cases? More Than You Might Think.](https://nationalpartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/elizabeth-sepper.jpg)
What’s at Stake in the Supreme Court Birth Control Cases? More Than You Might Think.
Access to contraception long seemed settled and remote from the culture wars.
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Standing Up for Women and Families in 2014
With demand on the rise for measures that will make our country more healthy, fair and family friendly, the National Partnership convened a special congressional briefing to discuss the policies women and families want this year.
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The Fight for Women’s Health in Louisiana Continues
On February 4, dozens of allies met on the steps of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) in Baton Rouge to do something that we rarely get to do on the harsh battlefield of reproductive justice work in Louisiana – celebrate a victory.
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McCullen v. Coakley
On January 15th, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in McCullen v. Coakley, a case challenging the Massachusetts Buffer Zone Law.
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Fighting Back: The Women’s Health Protection Act
The Women’s Health Protection Act would support women’s ability to make personal health care decisions unhindered by callous and unnecessary state regulations.
![A New Direction for Women’s Health and Reproductive Rights in Virginia](https://nationalpartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/cianti-stewart-reid.jpeg)
A New Direction for Women’s Health and Reproductive Rights in Virginia
Voters in Virginia faced a clear choice when it came to women’s health and reproductive rights in the Virginia governor’s race.
![Our Bodies, Our Lives, Our Decisions: Albuquerque Communities Respect Decisions About Abortion](https://nationalpartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/tannia-esparza.jpg)
Our Bodies, Our Lives, Our Decisions: Albuquerque Communities Respect Decisions About Abortion
“Mija, I think that a woman should make her own decision about abortion for herself. It’s her body and no one is in her shoes to decide for her.” These are the words of my father, a proud immigrant from Michoacán, Mexico, a domestic worker, a brother to five sisters and a father to three daughters.