“These are two women who have been very clear, over many decades, that our constitutional right that protects women’s most important right of privacy — their right to reproductive rights — is important to them,” said Judith L. Lichtman, former president of the National Partnership for Women and Families.
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
National Partnership for Women & Families Annual Dinner to be Held on Thursday, June 7
According to the National Partnership’s report, Bad Medicine: How a Political Agenda Is Undermining Abortion Care and Access in Wisconsin, Wisconsin has a number of abortion restrictions that bear no relationship to medical standards; undermining health care providers’ efforts to provide the highest quality, patient-centered care; and taking decision-making away from women.
National Partnership for Women & Families and State Advocates Launch Campaigns and Issue Reports About Abortion Policies in Two States
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
“[This is] about the simple proposition that women seeking health care deserve the truth,” Debra L. Ness, the President of the National Partnership for Women & Families, said. “Women deserve unbiased information about their health care options. We have the right to transparent, truthful health information.”
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families, on the Passing of Rep. Louise Slaughter
At this time when the Trump administration is using every lever at its disposal to limit women’s access to reproductive health care and roll back our rights, states too are passing laws that disregard science and evidence-based policies in ways that threaten...
“When anti-abortion lawmakers actively promote junk science and enshrine it into statute, women suffer,” said Sarah Lipton-Lubet, vice president for reproductive health and rights at the National Partnership. “Bad medicine abortion restrictions are the result of this kind of harmful, ideological policymaking, and it must stop.”
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
Saying the new division is a way to sanction discrimination in healthcare, Debra L. Ness, president of the National Partnership for Women & Families, called it “misguided” and “mean-spirited.”
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
National Partnership Vice President Sarah Lipton-Lubet and Dr. Nicole Fanarjian: “By sending tax dollars to CPCs, anti-abortion lawmakers in Florida are demonstrating a total disregard for the truth, undermining a woman’s right to make her own informed medical decisions and denying her the respect and dignity she deserves.”
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families