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Extremist judges will not stop endangering the lives of pregnant people or people who may become pregnant—overturning Roe v. Wade, attacking medication abortion, threatening the future of IVF, and this week at SCOTUS, emergency abortion care.

Our lawyers are waging strategic fights that make clear what is at stake for people who can become pregnant and seek to bolster our fundamental rights to control our lives, futures, and destinies.

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NWLC In The Press

Rep. Duncan Hunter’s affairs with congressional staff raise sexual harassment concerns

  • Roll Call
“When you have big power disparities like that … when you are in a position of power over someone’s livelihood, over their career opportunities, consent can get pretty muddy,” said Emily Martin, a vice president...

Equal Pay Day, how Latinas are being affected by income disparities

  • Univision
Today is equal pay day, a date to bring awareness of income disparities between men and women. Despite progress in the 80's and 90's, the pay gap hasn't budged in more than a decade. UNews...

Cruz, Ocasio-Cortez efforts on birth control access face major obstacles

  • The Hill
Still, reproductive rights groups argue that if women are paying for insurance, they shouldn’t have to pay more for over-the-counter birth control at the pharmacy. “Fundamentally, birth control is health care, and so it should...

The real reason companies like Target are offering paid parental leave and child-care

  • MarketWatch
“The more employers that want to offer child-care options, the better,” agreed Melissa Boteach, vice president of income security and child care/early learning at the National Women’s Law Center. “But in the meantime, it’s really...

Despite #MeToo glare, efforts to ban secret settlements stop short

  • The New York Times
Despite the modesty of the changes overall, Andrea Johnson, senior counsel for state policy at the National Women’s Law Center, said she was heartened by the progress — especially for an issue that didn’t emerge...

Anita Hill at the New Rules Summit: Leaders have to step up

  • The New York Times
Since #MeToo went viral a year and a half ago, victories have spanned the cultural and the concrete, and “that’s exciting,” said Fatima Goss Graves, the president of the National Women’s Law Center and a...