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Contraception Is Free by Law. So Why Are a Quarter of Women Still Paying for It?

In 2015, a study by the National Women’s Law Center, a nonprofit legal organization, found that several insurance companies claimed they were not covering hormonal rings, intrauterine devices or patches because they covered another hormonal method: the...

Supreme Court publishes draft opinion showing an unexpected win for abortion rights: report

Fatima Goss Graves, who heads the National Women’s Law Center, said the opinion appears to leave the door open for the Supreme Court to end emergency abortion care in the coming months or years. “It...

Supreme Court Idaho Opinion Leaves Abortion as Health Care Unresolved

“It seems this is leaving the situation unresolved,” says Gretchen Borchelt, vice president for reproductive rights and health at the National Women’s Law Center in Washington, DC. “Doctors and patients were hoping this case would...

Column: This huge insurer got caught breaking a law protecting contraceptive access, but its fine is a joke

A couple more bits of bad news: Not only is UnitedHealth a “repeat offender” in breaching contraception access laws (in the words of Gretchen Borchelt of the National Women’s Law Center), but it’s also not...

Abortion Nod in EEOC Pregnancy Rule Draws Conflicting Decisions

“The swath of challenges to the rulemaking by the EEOC only serves to put more workers in a position where they are unsure of what their rights are and to increase confusion” for workers and...

San Diego woman says CVS pharmacist refused to fill misoprostol prescription

A sternly worded letter from the National Women’s Law Center demands that CVS Health take immediate steps to ensure access to reproductive drugs after a CVS pharmacist allegedly told a local woman “I’m not comfortable dispensing it...