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CW: sexual assault and sexual harassment in health care. Across the country medical boards are leaving patients vulnerable to sexual harassment and assault by either failing to investigate claims of sexual harassment and assault or by…

Given the flurry of Trump-Pence administration efforts to roll back birth control coverage and the confusing court decisions about the ACA and the birth control benefit in the news late last week, you may be worried…

You may be scratching your head over the news from late Friday that a federal judge in Texas declared the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional . . . but that the law is still in effect. If you’re confused…

Tuesday’s election results were historic for women in politics. But it’s not just getting closer towards having our government look more like the people it represents that was a win for women. In Idaho, Nebraska, and…

Alicia Wilson Baker traveled from Indiana to Washington, D.C., to testify against Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Through tears, she shared her story about losing birth control coverage…

Today, we filed a complaint with a state Board of Chiropractic on behalf of one of our clients who was sexually harassed by her chiropractor. At almost every appointment, our client was subjected to sexually charged…

The Title X family planning program provides high quality, culturally sensitive, confidential birth control and other reproductive health services to over four million people every year.  But this summer the Trump-Pence Administration proposed to change the…

The Trump-Pence Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has utterly failed to follow the law and respond to one of the many FOIA requests we’ve filed against this secretive, shady Administration. You’re wondering, “What does…

Update: After this blog was published, the Trump-Pence administration finalized its earlier interim final rules. These final rules are just as unlawful and unconstitutional as the interim rules were, and NWLC and its partners are challenging…

Last night, the Trump-Pence administration released a horrific “gag rule” aimed at preventing doctors and other health care providers that serve low-income people from discussing abortion with their patients. By going after Title X-funded providers, this…

UPDATE: In early August, the Trump Administration finalized this harmful rule—expanding these “short-term” plans and undermining access to affordable, quality health insurance. Thankfully, Senator Baldwin is taking the lead against the Administration’s latest attempt to undermine…

Sexual harassment and violence is so engrained in our everyday experience it sometimes feels inescapable: You’ve been sexually harassed at work? Me too. You were sexually assaulted at school?  Me too. Your doctor sexually assaulted or…