To acknowledge Mental Health Awareness Month this May, DOL’s Office of Disability Employment Policy sat down with Marissa Ditkowsky, disability economic justice counsel at the nonprofit National Partnership for Women & Families and adjunct professor at American University Washington College of Law (AUWCL).
In the 18 months following the Supreme Court’s decision that ended federal protection for abortion, the number of abortions in the U.S. has continued to grow, according to The Society of Family Planning’s WeCount project.
Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese… and Opill! As the WNBA gets underway, there’s so much to be excited about but did you know how the League is bringing its power to the fight to protect access to contraception?
Maternal mental health conditions affect one in five women and can lead to adverse health outcomes for both mothers and infants. That’s why we’re so glad Congress has introduced the Mental Health and Making Access More Affordable (MAMA) Act to support mental health services for pregnant and postpartum individuals.
Millions of Latinx Floridians and Arizonans started off the month of May with new and looming restrictions on their reproductive health decisions.
On Missing or Murdered Indigenous Women’s Awareness Day, we remember the many lives shattered or lost, and commit to working with Native communities to find justice and keep families safe.
Starting today, people can no longer access legal abortions in Florida beyond six weeks of pregnancy, except in rare circumstances.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Recent budget proposals by the Biden administration and Republicans in Congress show how the two parties plan to support – or not – women and families.
The Florida Supreme Court overturned decades of legal precedent on Monday in ruling that the State Constitution’s privacy protections do not extend to abortion, effectively allowing Florida to ban the procedure after six weeks of pregnancy.
In the first abortion-related case before the Supreme Court since its 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, a majority of the justices appeared to express skepticism that a coalition of anti-abortion doctors had the right to challenge the Food and Drug Administration’s 2016 and 2021 decisions to expand access to mifepristone, a drug used for medication abortion.
To commemorate Women’s History Month, Hodan Deria, 2024 Spring DEIA Intern highlights Florynce “Flo” Kennedy for her life-long dedication to advocacy. Through her activism for civil rights, feminism, and LGBTQ+ rights, Kennedy’s legacy continues to inspire and inform discussions on equity, diversity, and inclusion.
To understand the evolving landscape for abortion in the United States, you have to consider two seemingly contradictory things.
Female rage is worthy of celebration and praise – without it women’s history would be radically different from what it is today.
Nearly two years after the Supreme Court’s disastrous decision in Dobbs, abortion access is once again in the hands of nine Justices. Next week, the Court will hear oral arguments in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA, a case about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval process for mifepristone.
